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his New Year's address, President Yoon Seok-yeol repeatedly emphasized three major reforms: labor, education, and pension.

He also gave strength to the concept of labor-management rule of law.

However, he did not include a plan for cooperation and there were no reporters because it was not a press conference.



This is reporter Han Sang-woo.



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The topic of the New Year's address in the second year of my inauguration, which replaced the New Year's press conference, was responding to the upcoming economic crisis and three major reforms.



President Yoon Seok-yeol spent more than 3 minutes of his 9-minute New Year's address emphasizing his commitment to labor, education and pension reform.



[President Yoon Seok-yeol: There is no future for a country that is buried in maintaining vested interests and seeking rent.

The three major reforms cannot be postponed any longer.]



He said that he would pursue labor reform first, saying, "I will make the labor market flexible and establish fairness in labor-labor relations."



He said that he would take labor-management rule of law as the starting point for labor reform, implying that he would sternly respond to illegal acts by some unions.



He put forward exports as a response to the economic crisis.



He said he would nurture infrastructure construction, nuclear power, and the defense industry as new export engines.



[President Yoon Seok-yeol: We will put the economy at the center of all diplomacy and take care of our export strategy.] In



the reality of the ruling and opposition party National Assembly, there was no separate mention of negotiations or compromise plans with the opposition party to implement the three major reforms.



Mentions related to defense and security were not included in the New Year's address, but were separately mentioned in a video conference with the military command afterwards.



The announcement of the New Year's address without reporters was conducted with only 10 staff members present, including Chief of Staff Kim Dae-gi and Chief of Security Office Kim Seong-han.



The Democratic Party criticized it as "one mana story where neither a vision nor an answer can be found," and the people's strength responded to the Democratic Party, saying, "I can't see any cooperation for people's livelihood and economy anywhere."



(Video coverage: Joo Bum/Lee Yong-han, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)