South Korea's biggest "green growth"

Since the financial crisis sweeping the globe, South Korea has been hit hard. At the same time, a top-down "green national movement" led by President Lee Myung-bak was launched in South korea.

Now, if you open the South Korean newspaper, turn on the TV, such as "green growth", "low carbon development", "green new deal (NewDeal)", "green jobs (GreenJob)", "green home" and "green big bang (BigBang)" and "green" vocabulary than is.

"Green growth" will become the next national competitiveness of South korea.

Environmental protection and strive for the next president of the Han River miracle"

Last August 15th, Lee Myung-bak in the 60 anniversary of the Korean Recovery and the 63 anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Korea conference speech, formally proposed the "green growth" ideas, proposed that the "low carbon green growth" as the axis of South Korea's new vision of.

Lee on the green growth strategy high expectations, that this strategy will open up the next generation of South Korea 10 to 20 years to make a living, to provide the basic necessities of life in korea. "Green growth", he was seen as a miracle after the Han River, the future of the Korean Peninsula to create a miracle strategy.

Lee Myung-bak's speech, enumerate the advantages of "green growth", such as reducing carbon dioxide emissions, reduce energy consumption, improve the proportion of renewable energy, create jobs, the renewable energy industry to improve the deterioration due to import large quantities of crude oil of the international balance of payments.

The reason why the "green growth" mentioned in such a high position is due to the South Korea for its international status and the domestic situation of re examination.

At that time, South Korea's environment in the international evaluation of poor impression. In 2005, the world economic forum announced the environmental sustainability index (ESI) evaluation, South Korea ranked 122nd in the 146 countries. In the OECD countries, at the end of the row.

At the same time, South Korea is a country that is extremely poor in energy and resources. In Lee Myung-bak's words, "a country that does not produce a drop of oil.".

South Korea is the world's seventh largest oil consumer, the fourth largest oil importer, the per capita oil consumption ranks fifth in the world, a year to import oil of 750 million barrels. Lee Myung-bak's speech, the international crude oil prices reached $147 / barrel peak. Therefore, it is urgent and realistic to reduce the import of crude oil, develop new energy and improve the utilization of renewable energy. South Korean media have said that the "green growth plan" for South Korea, is not an option, but an imperative strategy.

Moreover, South Korea in the total energy consumption, the traditional reliance on energy of coal and oil is very high, new energy and renewable energy accounted for only 2% (2006), in OECD member countries has been in the downstream position. However, from 1988 to 2006, South Korea in the development of new energy and renewable energy investment is only 4% of the United States, Japan's $7%.

In addition, in recent years, the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries will be the environmental industry as a new economic growth point. Such as the United Kingdom in 2005 to determine the low carbon green economy as a national development strategy, has recently announced the creation of 100 thousand jobs as the goal of the green new deal". Obama was elected president of the United States, put forward the next 10 years to develop clean energy investment of $150 billion to create a plan for 5 million jobs. Japan has also proposed to 2015, the environmental industry market size expanded to 100 trillion yen, and the employment of the field to the program of 2 million 200 thousand people. South Korean newspapers and other countries have more experience in environmental protection, these countries attach importance to the action of the environment is a great touch korea.

For Lee Myung-bak, the green growth plan can be said to be his last card. Lee took office more than a year, 747 plan to promote economic growth in South Korea "he proposed" (i.e., in term of the annual economic growth of 7%, per capita GDP4 million dollars, South Korea to become the world's seventh economic powers) and the "the Grande Canale plan" (between Seoul and Busan for more than and 400 kilometers of river transport) has suffered serious setbacks. Is the opposition criticism and ridicule.

President Kim Dae-jung and President Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea has become the IT power, the economy has achieved good results, but did not create enough jobs, South Korea which fall into the "low employment rate of economic growth". The current unemployment rate has become the most difficult problem of the South Korean government. According to Lee Myung-bak's economic staff estimates, the development of renewable energy industry can create more than two or three times the employment of manufacturing. In particular, the development of solar energy industry, wind power industry, eight times the employment needs of the general industry. Through green growth can increase the employment population, which is also conducive to reducing the difference between rich and poor, but also a sustainable growth, in Lee Myung-bak's view, is indeed the most should implement the strategy.

And Lee Myung-bak himself was elected by the green card was elected president of the United States, has been the United States, "time" magazine selected as cover characters, known as "environmental president". When he became mayor of Seoul, successfully restored Seoul's Green River, the environmental protection project has become the most dazzling achievements Lee Myung-bak. He came to power after the ambitious plan to promote the the Grande Canale, in order to write his environmental protection President chapter. The "the Grande Canale plan" despite strong opposition from all walks of life and give up, but Lee Myung-bak does have a deep environmental complex, and even the media called him "the president is good at play".

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Lee Myung-bak advocated green growth strategy, the Korean government immediately began to implement. At the end of last August announced that the "national energy