โ€œThe Executive Committee of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) which is a global network of social scientists and others studying basic income models across the world, appreciates and salutes Mr. Lee Jae-myung for proposing in his manifesto in the context of the forthcoming Presidential elections in March-April 2022, a progressive and feasible basic income model for the Republic of Korea, one that would assist humanity in the march against global inequality and global warming.

A Basic Income successfully implemented in the Republic of Korea would provide her people with a secure layer of income, would enhance opportunities for education about Basic Income around the world, and would provide significant opportunities for research about the desirability, feasibility, and implementation of a Basic Income system.

It would improve the status and economic position of women and youth and establish the Republic of Korea as a resilient society able to deal well with future pandemics and other economic shocks. If implemented successfully, this model will stand as an example worthy of emulation across the world.โ€

(Korean Translation)

โ€œ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“์ง€๊ตฌ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ (BIEN) ์ง‘ํ–‰์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์ด์žฌ๋ช… ํ›„๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ง„๋ณด์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๊ณต์•ฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ™˜์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฝ์˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ œ์•ˆ์€ ์ „ ์ง€๊ตฌ์  ๋ถˆํ‰๋“ฑ๊ณผ ์ง€๊ตฌ ์˜จ๋‚œํ™”์— ๋งž์„œ๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์—์„œ ์ธ๋ฅ˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“์ด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์†Œ๋“์˜ ํ•œ ์ธต์„ ๋ณด์žฅ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ต์œก์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“์ œ์˜ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์งํ•จ, ์‹คํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ, ์‹คํ–‰ ๋“ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“ ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ฒญ๋…„์˜ ์ง€์œ„ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ฒ˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด ์žฅ๋ž˜์˜ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน๊ณผ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํƒ„๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์†Œ๋“ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹คโ€.

Sarath Davala

Chair, Basic Income Earth Network

December 16, 2021