{"id":36,"date":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/post-29-end-of-the-five-year-presidency\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"post-29-end-of-the-five-year-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/post-29-end-of-the-five-year-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-29: Ending South Korea’s Five-Year Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"
The current South Korean government will try to revise<\/a> the constitution to:
<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 (a) create a four-year-per-term, two-term-limit presidential system like the USA’s, and
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>(b) weaken the power of the presidency in domestic affairs.<\/p>\n

As of now, their constitution allows a president to serve only a single five-year term<\/strong>. <\/span>Korean leaders’<\/a> increasing unpopularity<\/a> and seeming ineffectiveness may be due, partly, to being lame-ducks from day one.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Yet, one can understand why the South Koreans established this one-term-limit cap in the 1980s:<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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President Park (\ubc15\uc815\ud76c)<\/div>\n

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<\/span>(1)<\/strong><\/font> 18 Years of General Park<\/font>: On May 16th, 1961, General Park Chung-Hee<\/a><\/strong> staged a coup and soon installed himself in power. In 1979, he was shot dead, ending 18 1\/2 years of power. Widely admired today, despite undemocratic rule.<\/div>\n
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Syngman Rhee (\uc774\uc2b9\ub9cc)<\/div>\n

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<\/span>(2)<\/strong><\/font> 12 Years of Rhee<\/font>: Before Park, there was a U.S.-exiled-till-1945, U.S.-sponsored, and rather cartoonishly-cranky old “dictator” named Syngman Rhee<\/a><\/strong>, who caused endless headaches for the USA while in power, and who allowed a a bit of kleptocracy to rise up in South Korea. Rhee ruled for 12 years, ’48-’60, until he was overthrown in protests.<\/div>\n
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President Chun (\uc804\ub450\ud658)<\/div>\n

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(3)<\/strong><\/font> 8 Years of Another General:<\/font> <\/font>After the assassination of General (then President) Park in late ’79, his crony General Chun Doo-Hwan<\/strong><\/a> soon assumed power. He allowed an election in December 1987, perhaps because South Korea was set to host the Olympics six months later. (<\/strong>Yet another <\/em>former general in that clique won the election and served a five-year-term through early 1993. [1993-to-Present has seen fully-civilian rule]).<\/div>\n
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\nThirty-eight years, three men. Two would’ve stayed-in longer, if events had not forced them out.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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So it’s not hard to see why they have a one-term cap. Lameduckery from day one is<\/em> a problem, though. I think that a three-year, three-term-limit system would be best: Only a president who wins three consecutive elections would wind up a lameduck. It also would allow popular will to be reflected more quickly.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current South Korean government will try to revise the constitution to:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 (a) create a four-year-per-term, two-term-limit presidential system like the USA’s, and\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 (b) weaken the power of the presidency in domestic affairs. As of now, their constitution allows a president to serve only a single five-year term. Korean leaders’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}