New cabinet make-up reveals more pragmatism

The LMB cabinet is comprised of mainly former bureaucrats (57 per cent), followed by scholars with 18 per cent. The so-called ’386-generation’ who made up an important part of the early Roh government is conspicuously absent in this new one, with only one cabinet member being considered one, the fact that demonstrates the new government will pursue more ‘pragmatism,’ rather than ‘idealism.’ ‘The 386-generation was in the vanguard of student movements for democracy in previous military governments in the 1970 and 1980s.