Prime Minister Kim Min-seok speaks during a meeting of the 2045 Strategy Committee held in central Seoul on May 27. [YONHAP]
The government held the inaugural meeting Wednesday of a committee charged with drawing up the blueprint for what Korea should look like in 2045, kicking off the process of tackling a complex series of challenges the country needs to face in order to shape a better future.
The 2045 Strategy Committee is aimed at developing long-term national development strategies and capabilities to systematically deal with upcoming major challenges such as polarization, demographic changes, regional extinction and climate change.
“Over the past 80 years, we've transformed into an advanced nation and a democracy that the world marvels at after overcoming national division, war and dictatorships. But lying before us are such structural and complex problems as low birthrates, aging, climate change, competition for technological supremacy and polarization,” Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said during the meeting.
“In order to overcome these challenges, we have to fundamentally redesign the direction the country goes,” he said. “Beyond simply improving economic indexes, we should draw up the shape of a decent, advanced and cultural nation that leads the world based on mid- and long-term plans and consistent strategies.”
