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President Park announces start of constitutional revision on presidential one-term limit

Oct 25, 2016

President Park has vowed to put the revision into effect before her single five-year term ends, citing the outstanding difficulties she has experienced over the past three years and eight months she`s been in office.
She said the challenges facing Korea cannot be tackled with just a handful of policies or reforms and the revision must be approached with the next century in mind.
"With the one-term presidency, there is a lack of continuity for sustainable policy drives and the achievement of national tasks. It is also an obstacle to consistent international diplomacy. And with the idea that it only needs to hang on for a few years, North Korea has continued its nuclear and missile development for decades. With policy changing every five years, economic entities experience difficulties in long-term investment and management."
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President Park said that the single-term presidency can no longer serve the needs of a changing society and said now seemed the right time and place to answer the call from the public and political realm to go ahead with the revision.
Public polls indicate that 70-percent of Korean people agree with the idea of revising the Constitution, and nearly 200 lawmakers, or two thirds of the total, are engaged in a parliamentary movement to proceed with the revision.
"From today on, I will accept the people`s and the parliament`s request for Constitutional revision as a national task and prepare for the work ahead. The government will set up an organization on the issue to ensure that a revision that fulfills the will of the people is completed within my term."
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President Park also asked lawmakers to set up a special parliamentary committee and to gather public opinion on the issue to further develop and discuss the scope and content of the tasks ahead.
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"On what kind of government structure the president has in mind the presidential office said that the decisions should be made through open discussion with politicians and the public but added that the president should take a leading role in the process.
Song Ji-sun, Arirang News."
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