Breaking the Contract with the Republic of Korea

“Politicians are all the same. They make a bunch of promises before the election, but once elected they forget all about them.” This was a fairly recurrent comment I heard on the day of the presidential election this year while interviewing people on the street. Last year, some South Korean politicians, or “those damned liars,” as many prefer to call them, tried to repudiate their notoriety with an ingenious approach. Before the 2016 general election last April, 56 lawmakers in the conservat