The Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Myung-hee Yu, Director of Commerce and Trade, formulated the challenge for the Secretary-General of the World Trade Organization. WTO's secretary-general is known for his long-standing dream. If Yu is elected as the first woman to become a first- and vice-level government official in the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry said that it will be the first female secretary-general in the history of WTO, where 164 countries have gathered.


● 3 months race after candidate registration… The

election of the WTO Secretary-General for the Corona Incident variable will take place three months after nomination. Under the Supreme Council of Ministers, the three core organizations, the General Council, the chairman of the Dispute Resolution Organization and the Trade Policy Review Organization, form a kind of election management committee. In the process, which started abruptly due to the resignation of the former secretary-general, the U.S. general manager will enter the race for three months after completing the candidacy by July 8. In light of the principle and precedent of giving presentations to member countries at Geneva WTO headquarters within a month, the time for U to travel around the country is as long as three weeks.

Through presentations, questions and answers, and press conferences in Geneva, preference votes in each country are not made in one day, but in days and days. Countries such as Nigeria and Mexico have already nominated. If you don't understand why the secretary-general from Korea should come out in the first month against each country, you have to drop out early and watch the other two candidates fight. However, this year is different from the previous year in that it is not free to move to the corona situation. The WTO Secretariat is said to be discussing with each country to set details and how to proceed with the election process this year.


● Korea became a trading power in the ruins of war… “Important support for developing countries” The

significance of the position of the secretary-general of the WTO is also significant in Korea, which has produced several heads of international organizations such as UN Ban Ki-moon and WHO Lee Jong-wook. It is not an exaggeration to say that the power of free trade in Den, which came to the ashes of war, was all there. The case of Korea, which has become one of the world's 10 largest trading powers in developing countries, proves the value of the free trade order itself. For developing countries, which make up the majority of the 164 member countries, the secretary-general from Korea can be a'hope'.

Park Tae-ho, the head of the International Trade and Research Institute at Law Firm Park, who was a former Director of the Trade and Trade Head of the Lee Myung-bak administration and challenged himself as the WTO general secretary, said, "There are many poor countries that cannot even embassy in Geneva." "You can gain support if you appeal to the fact that you can lead to a strong trade aid." It means that the support of developing countries is as important as that of the United States and China in the WTO, which is one vote for each country.


● Should we set up the WTO,'All things stopped'... "Government diplomatic support essential" The

next Secretary-General has a heavy duty to establish a well-known WTO. The former resignation general secretary, Roberto Azevedo, said in a foreign interview earlier. "We're not doing anything right now. There's no negotiation, everything is still." It is said that there is nothing more dramatic than the WTO's current status.

Although it is a multilateral trade order that has brought prosperity to the world after the Second World War, the nation failed to negotiate the Dohara Round early, and each country is struggling with an individual free trade agreement (FTA). The Strongmen, symbolized by Trump, are encouraging protectionism and advocating the WTO system. The next secretary-general of the WTO has taken on the task of grasping the threatened multilateral trade and establishing new trade norms in the 21st century, such as e-commerce.

It is also important to normalize the dispute resolution and appeals mechanism in Korea, which is in dispute due to Japan's unilateral export restrictions. To put it bluntly, the WTO is not wrong even if it is a'conflict resolution authority', but the WTO's Supreme Court of Appeal is orbiting against the appointment of a member of the United States. How to redefine the powers of the organization, which has been complaining about the powers of the United States and other countries, and encompass the interests of other member countries, is a concern that lies ahead of the next Secretary-General.

"The resolution of (trade) disputes is an area in which every country is interested, not a small country, a large country, and it is not a difficult task to normalize the dispute resolution mechanism if only the rules that each country agrees to," he said. "If the government's diplomatic support is added now, the image of Korea has improved, and the election of WTO Secretary-General Yu can become a reality."

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