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This time, we are talking about election promises. Do you know what kind of candidate a soldier's monthly salary of 2 million won or 500% floor area ratio for reconstruction is? It is a promise made side by side by two candidates, Jae-myung Lee and Seok-yeol Yoon.



Reporter Kang Cheong-wan investigated the reason why there are so many promises that are similar to each other.



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[Lee Jae-myung/Democratic Party Presidential Candidate (YouTube video): Candidate Seok-yeol Yoon, it seems we have been through for a long time. I hope you can give me some time.] This



is a video uploaded on YouTube by Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung on the 13th.



At the end of last year, Candidate Lee promised to raise the salary of soldiers to 2 million won, but 17 days later, on the 9th, when Candidate Yoon announced the same promise, he was criticized for following it.



[Yoon Seok-yeol / People's Power Presidential Candidate (January 9): Our young people are sacrificing for their own country by enlisting in the military... .]



The opposite is also true.



Candidate Yoon promised to raise the floor area ratio of the reconstruction complex to 500% in August of last year.



[Yoon Seok-yeol/People's Power Presidential Candidate (August 29, last year): Raised the floor area ratio of the private reconstruction project near the station from 300% to 500%... .]



But on the 13th, Lee also announced a 500% raise.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate (January 13): We will create 4 types of residential areas that can increase floor area ratio up to 500%.]



When Candidate Yoon went on to say that he would raise the tax base for virtual assets to 50 million won, the next day the Democratic Party of Korea proposed the same amendment, making similar promises as if in a race.



Looking at the pledges of the two candidates, there are more than 15 similar promises, such as the underground construction of the Gyeongin Line and the Gyeongin Expressway, and the disclosure of information on stochastic items.



[Kim Dong-yeon/New Wave Presidential Candidate (KBS Radio): I think we can change the names of the two (Lee Jae-myung, Yoon Seok-yeol).

People seem to be confused...

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Kim



/Professor, Department of Public Administration, Konkuk University: The reality is that there are aspects of the global pandemic, economic stagnation, and the need to adapt to the era of the 4th industrial revolution, so the main policy contents are inevitably similar.]



The fact that both the middle class and the 2030 generation are the key to winning is also cited as the reason for the convergence of the promises.



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Yumira)