Yun Hee-suk

Yun is economically liberal.[1] She is harshly critical towards the President Moon Jae-in, accusing his economic policy as "populism" since a researcher of the KDI.[1][2][3] This gave her a nickname "Populism Fighter (포퓰리즘 파이터)".[1][2][3][10]

The main policies that she is criticising are minimum wage increase, 52-hour workweek and real estate policies.[5][10] As an example, for the minimum wage, she cited that while Japan had increased 3% per year during a decade, South Korea has increased 30% within 2 years, in which she mentioned that labour forces like part-time and/or temporary workers will be damaged.[11] She also accused that Moon's economic policy will lead the country to be like Venezuela or Argentina.[11]

She has a sceptical view towards Keynesian economic policies adopted by the President Moon, mentioning that the policy is actually "impossible and nonsense".[11] She also added that South Korea needs a leadership like Margaret Thatcher.[10][11]

During a parliamentary speech on 30 July 2020, Yun criticised the education policy of Moon's government.[12][13] She cited an example of her elder sister who had already given up for mathematics during her school life.[12][13] She believes that this kind of problem was occurred due to the standardised education system.[12][13] In order to overcome this issue, she had suggested an idea, which is that an artificial intelligence (AI) provides exercises that are suitable for each student.[12][13] In fact, this idea was once applied at the Introduction to Probability and Statistics subject at the KDI and no one failed at the subject.[13]

She also analysed that the current South Korean education system has failed to innovate due to high restrictions towards e-learning and strong objections from teachers and lecturers.[12][13]