Due to the Moon Jae-in administration's power-based foreign policy, former Minister Kang Kyung-wha, Choi Jang-soo, was turned away from international diplomacy with just two votes to run for International Labor Organization(ILO) Secretary General.
ILO President Election: Gilbehr Ungbo, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President (Togo, 30 votes), OECD Ambassador to France Muriel Fenico (former Minister of Labor, 23 votes), International Employers Organization Mtunji Muava (IOE) Director (Togo, 30 votes) South Africa, 1 vote) Former Minister Kang, 2 votes, the decision was made on the 25th.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 27th that President Moon Jae-in and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Employment and Industry had sent personal letters from each country, held high-level meetings and held local negotiations through diplomatic missions abroad.
Regarding former Minister Kang, who ran for office on October 1, last year, Minjoo Party spokesperson Kim Jin-wook said in a briefing on the 2nd that he would "actively support the election of the secretary-general" and create a cross-ministerial task force centered on the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Employment and Labor, and help the government.
Kang's declaration of candidacy for his candidacy in the labor sector was described as 'income-led growth'. It is known that they announced ‘ratification of the ILO core conventions’ and ‘establishment of a union for administrative staff in diplomatic missions abroad’.
At a summit meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on January 18, President Moon requested public support from Kang's former Foreign Minister, and Saudi Arabia is a member of the ILO.
President Moon then signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on the 20th to establish a new EDCF (External Economic Cooperation Fund) loan of $1 billion for Egypt for five years (2022-2026) at a summit. exchanged Egyptian support for the 'peace process'.
The ‘Memorandum of Understanding for Loan Export of 2 trillion won worth of K self-propelled guns to Egypt’, the achievement of President Moon, was 80% loaned by Korea and joint production at the Egyptian factory while Eximbank, the lender, was excluded.
In the run for WTO secretary-general, Yoo Myung-hee, who also lost the election, President Moon spoke on the phone with the leaders of Luxembourg and Egypt, Italy on October 21, 2020, and asked, "Please support Myung-hee Myung-hee, the head of trade negotiations as the WTO secretary-general."
Since July of that year, President Moon has spoken directly with the heads of nine countries, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister of Malaysia, Russia, Brazil and Germany since July of that year due to the election campaign.
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun had a phone call with Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez on the 19th and had a phone call with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and the Vice President of Guatemala the day before to ask for support.
At the time, Minister Kang “requested for support” through video conferences or phone calls with the then foreign ministers of Denmark, Poland, Austria, Finland and Slovenia.
President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House meeting on the 28th, saying, "Now, Korea has become a country with a strong status in terms of economic and military power as well as soft power such as democracy, culture, health, medical innovation, international cooperation, etc." It has been praised internationally for being the most successful country in the world over the past 70 years since World War II, and has become one of the top 10 countries in the world in many ways.”
The Moon Jae-in regime, in which the Republican Trump Party restored the hard-line conservative Reagan system and joined the power-based foreign policy by increasing arms, collided with Japan and entered the world's sixth-largest military power by increasing military expenditures that surpassed Japan's defense cost. In the strategies of 'Peace' and 'Competition for North Korea's productivity system', it increased armaments by selling weapons under the New Southern Policy to Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.
Japanese ministers described former Minister Kang as a 'decoration' in their diplomacy between Korea and Japan.
In 2019, President Moon announced the self-reliance policy of a ‘minister manager’, saying, “I promise to become a country that no one can shake” regarding Japan’s restrictions on exports of core semiconductor materials, and recently published the book “A Country That No One Can Shake”.
In his commemorative speech on the March 1st, President Moon said, "No one can shake the Republic of Korea now." "Korea has become a proud country with the world's 10th largest economy, 7th global export power, 6th overall military power, and 1st innovation index in the world. "he said.