I don’t know if LJM is the next KDJ, but here’s a few criticisms coming from the right that don’t make sense to me. And I think it’s a good idea to clear this up because it’s easy to say “that guy has no actual plans”, and hard to explain what your plan is.
- During this campaign, LJM has said nothing about reducing the proportion of nuclear energy, but the far-right still lives in 2020 and criticizes Moon Jae-in’s policy of reducing nuclear. We’ve since learned that sustainable energy is not reliable. LJM has made that clear in his rebuttal against LJS. But that doesn’t mean we can sit on our laurels while other developed nations steam ahead with renewables and strengthens the RE100 pact. LJM said he plans to expand investments into renewables, build ESS infrastructure (which only helps our battery industry), and build a power transmission grid that distributes the renewable energy made in the Honam region so that high-tech production facilities (such as the upcoming Yongin Semiconductor Cluster) can increase the use of renewables. We’ve already started investing so much into renewable energy but the problem is that it’s disproportionately concentrated in the Honam region (Saemangeum solar farms and Jeonnam offshore wind farms). The Honam region cannot benefit from this because there’s no manufacturing activity in the region, and the high-tech facilities in the Gyeonggi region cannot benefit from RE100 because the renewable energy only stays in the Honam region. This is what he’s proposing to fix. He’s proposing to use nuclear as a stable source of energy to fill in the gaps while Korea invests into renewable energy production. LJM attacked KMS on his flowery stance on nuclear, because nuclear is NOT flowery and comes with a bag of problems, not because he thinks nuclear should be abolished.
- The alt-right is recently trying to frame LJM as having no actual plans to grow the AI industry. LJM’s plans to me are very clear: Every country will need a sovereign AI. Any country that does not have their own AI platform is going to lose valuable data to OpenAI, Google etc., and is basically going to give up the nation’s ability to guide its own fate to these global companies, when AI becomes good enough to replace human workers. When nations depend their entire future on US’ AI platforms and we get a future Trump who wields it against us, what then? LJM has already acknolwedged that Korea’s soverign AI will not be as powerful as GPT or other gen AIs, but I don’t think anyone will disagree with the idea that we need our own to protect our data, and deciding the fate of the country’s productivity. What’s our data? There are only two countries in this world that can basically manufacture everything high-tech: That’s China and South Korea. Samsung, for example, is struggling to figure out a way to use AI in their working environment because they fear their valuable manufacturing data will leak out to OpenAI and other companies. LJM’s solution is to build our own soverign AI that Korean companies can use. Currently, LG and Naver have their own, but it’s proprietary. Where do we get the chips from? There are three Korean fabless IC design companies that makes excelllent NPU chips that could compete on the global stage – Rebellions, Furiosa AI, and DeepX. But they will never get the chance to grow into a “K-NVIDIA” without the government staging a nationwide project for them, and that will be LJM’s Sovereign AI. That’s why his first move since the impeachment of YSY was to visit Furiosa AI – the company that was almost bought by Meta a few months ago. If this doesn’t count as a plan, Idk, does LJM need a PhD in CS? At least it’s better than KMS and LJS’s plan which is to “invest in future techologies”.
- LJM will maintain an ambiguous strategy to maintain the status quo between China and Taiwan. That’s not pro-China. In fact that’s the most conducive strategy in maintaining good business relations with both China and Taiwan. LJS was basically forcing LJM to confirm that he won’t support Taiwan in a hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan, but not only is it strategically the right choice that LJM does not confirm this in public (against China, and for the Korean economy), confirming anything when the US itself is taking on a more ambiguous stance on Taiwan by the day, is a very bad idea. The answer now should be exactly what LJM said: Korea’s response will be case-by-case, if it actually happens. Making a decision in public TV, and showing all your cards to both China and the US on a matter this serious, is a downright dumb idea.
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