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With the change of government, the president of Korea Aerospace Industries, KAI, is also likely to change next month.
It is known that a message was sent to the current president, Hyun-ho Ahn, saying, "Resign in June."
The prelude to the introduction of the paratrooper has risen.
Even though it is not a public company, the position of president of KAI is always a parachute of political power without any legal basis just because the state-run bank, the Export-Import Bank of Korea owns a 26% stake.
Criticism that the appointment of an unprofessional parachute president to an aerospace company is a pre-modern corruption is gaining persuasive power, but there are still many people who claim to be candidates without regard to it.
If you want KAI and the Korean fighter KF-21 to do your part, you have to fold the parachute.
The 'parachutes and children' shake up the R&D, production, and marketing organizations every three years for the president and five years for the government, and KAI's extra-legal political games should stop.
If a non-professional parachute is appointed up to the eighth president of KAI, the future of the KF-21 business, which has to undergo a desperate flight test, becomes frustrating.
Being swayed by politics and government institutions, the state cannot manage it, and it misses the future prospects.
Camp officials aiming for the eighth president of KAI should check whether there is any moral, legal, industrial, or security validity in KAI's parachute practice.
Please review whether your qualifications and abilities are suitable for the president of the national aerospace company.
If you want KAI and KF-21 to take off, the 8th president of KAI must be selected through fierce competition for an aerospace expert or internal promotion.
Only then is it fair and just.
KAI's 'President Risk'... paratroopers of horror
Most of the 1st to 7th presidents of KAI are parachutes from politically smart bureaucrats.
During the regime change period, parachutes fall not only for the president, but also for positions such as vice presidents and advisors.
They are close to political power, but not interested in aerospace.
When the paratroopers take over the KAI, they swipe here and there.
Greeting boards are placed according to school ties, ties, and blood ties, and KAI employees inevitably line up.
A vicious cycle of a structure in which politics takes precedence over ability prevails.
An executive from overseas aerospace company A said, "If the government changes, KAI's command line changes as well" and "It's like KAI's overseas cooperation system and performance collapse all at once."
An executive from Company B said, "KAI's parachute president risk is embarrassing because it is internationally famous," and "he talks about it as a feudal practice in the high-tech sector."
Parachute means KAI's burden.
For 23 years under the 1st-7th parachute, KAI's global defense industry rankings started at 59th, pushed out of the top 100, and only now returned to the top 60.
It is a standstill without progress.
This year marks the first year of flight for the KF-21.
It is a process like a thin ice sheet that blows more than 2,200 times over the next four years to fix defects and complete the KF-21.
Failure to act promptly will cause the KAI and KF-21 to sink together.
Only after successful flight tests can we supply 120 units to the Korean Air Force and challenge the export plan of 400 units.
A parachute that doesn't know aerospace can't do this formidable task.
What is KAI's future food?
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Aerospace industry workers choose unmanned aerial vehicles as the number one food for KAI in the future.
The KF-21 is a 4.5th generation fighter.
Leading overseas aerospace companies have already entered the sixth generation.
KAI is in a position to skip the 5th and 6th generations and directly target the next generation.
That's an unmanned aerial vehicle.
After the KF-21, the fate of KAI depended on drones.
The 8th president must have no political debt, that is, not a parachute, to add power to KAI's drone business.
KAI's mother-in-law, the DAPA, entrusts her sister-in-law, the Defense Science Research Institute, to the development of the UAV.
Although ADD has to focus on core, high-tech, and secret defense science, it keeps sniffing at general weapon systems that are good to attract people's attention.
UAV is also a general weapon system that ADD holds and does not let go.
Although the DAPA and ADD are government organizations that naturally operate under the shadow of politics, if the KAI president is a political parachute, KAI has no choice but to move according to the will of its powerful mother-in-law and sister-in-law.
When a parachute falls on KAI, KAI moves away from the drone.
It's like a car company giving up on electric vehicles.
Only the president without political debt can compete with the DAPA and ADD, saying, "KAI will be responsible for the exploration and development of unmanned aerial vehicles and system development."
KAI is a listed company, not a public company.
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Ultimately, KAI will have to be independent from politics, the DAPA, and ADD.
KAI is a publicly traded company serving its shareholders, not a public company for the government.
The path KAI will take is not the government, but KAI knows best.
It is necessary to block any useless interference such as the Radiation Agency and ADD, and select and push forward with the most successful business areas and methods.
When that happens, the stock price rises and the shareholders support it.
The appointment of KAI Parachute President is close to political violence.
So far, the best achievements of the parachute president are those who hover in the top 50 in the world.
A global KAI and a world-class fighter KF-21 can only be expected when a climactic expert leads KAI and the KF-21.
Parachute number 7 is enough.