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Saturday, March 20, 2004

Giving Back

In Korea has duty to rest of world, Yoon Hyun-bong, General Secretary of Korea NGO Council for Overseas Cooperation, writes about the enormous amount of aid Korea received after the Korean War, and the responsibilty the now-wealthy country has to the rest of the world:
    "...Korea's share of official development assistance is 0.06 percent of GNP, 10 times less than 0.6 percent, a figure recommended by the OECD and less than 0.22 percent, the average of OECD member countries. As the biggest beneficiary and a successful example of development assistance from abroad, it is a pitifully low level. We rail at the conglomerates and resent stingy rich people, but we don't realize that we may appear like stingy rich people to the world."