President Yoon Seok-yeol said, “When the economy grows and businesses thrive, people’s real wages rise naturally, not through struggle.”
After receiving a New Year’s work report from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family at the Blue House boarding house on the afternoon of the 9th, President Yoon stated: “The keyword for today’s job report is quality work.”
President Yoon stressed, “I think that ensuring the freedom of corporate management activities and equal bargaining power between workers and managers and deregulation is for the good of companies and capitalists, but ultimately it is for creating many quality jobs.” “.
“In the end, it’s up to the workers to grow our economy,” he added.
President Yoon underlined the need for an industrialization of welfare and said: “We must not think of welfare as a matter of spending money, but think about how to manage it well by transforming it into a market that has involved the private sector and companies” .
Regarding universal welfare, he stressed that “taxes must be used very effectively” and “never be influenced by politics, elections or factions”.
Referring to pension reform, President Yoon said, “Reform is something that goes hand in hand with the people.”
As for the Ministry of Gender Equality and the Family, which pledged to abolish the organization during the presidential elections, it was stated that “as long as it exists, state protection for women, youth and families must be strengthened”.
