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Almost everyone who receives an announcement replies with a donation; not to do so is frowned upon. Kim has gone so far as to make these "solicitations" illegal. The social purpose of this decree is unclear, but the rule effectively underscores the thrust of Kim's mission: to root out corruption and appearance of corruption throughout Korean society...
...Indeed, Kim has at times seemed to get carried away by his reformist zeal, promoting legislation against more conventional practices such as intrafamily asset transfers, which are widespread in a country whose effective average tax rate nears 60 percent...
...Kim's efforts must, however, be seen within the larger context of Korea's role on the world stage. As Kim has stated repeatedly, these institutional reforms, no matter how difficult they may be to implement or how antithetical to Korean culture they may be, are necessary to put his nation on the road to true modernization, and to win Korea a place among the most developed nations in the world...
President Kim is correctly attempting to eliminate an entrenched system of suspect ethical foundation so that internal corruption cannot impede Korea's progress...
...efforts could not come at a more propitious time. Korea is indeed taking a pivotal position on the world stage. Because North Korea's communist dictator Kim Il Sung nears death, one of the last communist holdouts could soon enter negotiations with its southern neighbor to reunify the country and drive yet another, perhaps the final, nail in the Cold War coffin...