What are the most urgent steps Korea should take in its integration with the Asia-Pacific countries?
Korea should intensively gather the know-how of the preoccupied technologies and the advantages of the competitiveness of various industrial sectors and play a leading role in maintaining our current status. If we are not careful, we might be caught up by the developing countries. In my opinion, our country should help the developing countries and the underdeveloped countries. It is because South Korea has also had times like that. Also, in order to help them, we should sustain and develop our advanced technologies and accumulated know-how and not get caught up by other countries. Also, when we scale this down to the East Asian region, Korea, Japan and China would be the first partners to form an integrated economic axis and carry on the partnership in the exchange of goods and technology. Currently, Japan’s right to take the leadership role has weakened while not being able to get out of the economic crisis. On the contrary, Korea has been growing very strong. So I hope that Korea wil
