โThe 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)
โ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๋ ์ฌํ๊ณผํ์๋ค ๋ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋์ง๊ตฌ๋คํธ์ํฌ (BIEN) ์งํ์์ํ๋ ๋ค๊ฐ์ฌ ๋ํต๋ น ์ ๊ฑฐ์์ ์ด์ฌ๋ช ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์์ ์ง๋ณด์ ์ด๊ณ ์คํ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๊ณต์ฝ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํด ํ์ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฝ์๋ฅผ ํํ๋ค. ์ด ์ ์์ ์ ์ง๊ตฌ์ ๋ถํ๋ฑ๊ณผ ์ง๊ตฌ ์จ๋ํ์ ๋ง์๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์์ ์ธ๋ฅ์๊ฒ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋์ด ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ค์๋๋ค๋ฉด ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์๋์ ํ ์ธต์ ๋ณด์ฅ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋์ ๊ดํ ๊ต์ก์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ํ๋ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋์ ์ ๋ฐ๋์งํจ, ์คํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ, ์คํ ๋ฑ์ ๊ดํด ์ค์ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ์ฌ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฒญ๋ ์ ์ง์ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ฒ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด ์ฅ๋์ ํฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน๊ณผ ๊ธฐํ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ฐ๋นํ ์ ์๋ ํ๋ ฅ ์๋ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ๋๊ฒ ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์คํ๋๋ค๋ฉด ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ ๋งํ ๋ชจ๋ฒ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋คโ.
Sarath Davala
Chair, Basic Income Earth Network
December 16, 2021