Comments on: A new party is born and Mungyeong feels the power

By: baduk

baduk — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:09:16 +0000

GohGun seems to be a “pragmatic” person, as he claimed that as priority today.

Either LeeMyengBak or GohGun will do much better job than present day college dropouts who are drenched with pro-North propagada.

In any case, the Uri(pig sty)party will be gone.

By: Andy (The Yangban)

Andy (The Yangban) — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:06:07 +0000

I saw on the news last night that Goh was at the opening of the new Democratic party office yesterday. I take that as a pretty strong sign that he is going to run as a fusion candidate for the Democrats and the “People Centered” party.

By: oranckay

oranckay — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:21:08 +0000

Goh is certainly a moderate, having served under Roh Tae-woo, Kim Young-sam, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun.

Don’t forget Park Chung Hee!

I blogged the subject a little, but I think the party would have to merge with the Democratic Party to get Goh to run. I think it would not, could not, field him on its own.

Also, as best I can tell the new party has not actually announced a date for a party founding convention, and that they’ve only officially announced that they will be officially forming a party. If that’s the case, they might be waiting to merge with the Democrats.

As I mentioned in my post, they Chungcheong people are now housed in the very same building in Mapo as the Democrats are.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:24:44 +0000

So in other words, he’s Park Geun-Hye, only with ethics. Sounds like the GNP needs principles more than ever.

By: Andy (The Yangban)

Andy (The Yangban) — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:21:41 +0000

Goh is certainly a moderate, having served under Roh Tae-woo, Kim Young-sam, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun. He is basically a bureaucrat. I guess I would call him center with just a dash of right (he resigned last year after refusing to follow what he regarded as an inappropriate order from Roh).

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:58:29 +0000

Uh, isn’t Goh Kun an Uri “moderate?” You’re talking about the guy who took office during the impeachment, right?

By: EumakSarang

EumakSarang — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:18:53 +0000

I did not know that Kyonhwon was from Mun’gyong!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:39:23 +0000

Andy, Whose votes will this new party take away? Does it have an ideology–I mean as opposed to a geography?

By: Andy (The Yangban)

Andy (The Yangban) — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:43:56 +0000

Josh,

Being the campaign vehicle of Goh Gun, my best guess is that they are center-right. But they are billing themselves specifically as a Chungcheon-based party. Perhaps they plan to rule as part of coalition with the GNP (kind of like the Christian Social Union in Germany).