By Eunyoung Kim People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) Building credible documentation with a focus on the how the documentation was used to draw up a ‘blacklist’ of unacceptable political candidates and moving the public to vote against these candidates By Eunyoung Kim People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)

The Constitution of the Republic of Korea- Article 1. “The Republic of Korea is a democratic republic. The sovereignty of the Republic of Korea resides in the people, and all state authority emanates from the people.” The Constitution of the Republic of Korea- Article 1.

    GOALS Specific - Eliminate corrupt politicians - Amend the election law that denies the people's fundamental political rights - Organize nationwide campaigns against old, erroneous political habits and election customs General Withdrawal of corrupt and incapable politicians through de-nomination and de-election campaign by voters

The result of the public poll of 500 citizens over the age of 20 conducted on January 8th~9th, 2000. Support the Defeat campaign : 79.8% Against the Defeat campaign : 15.5% When the defeat campaign is judged to be an illegal action,

Criteria for Blacklisting Corrupt Activity Violation of the election law Anti-HRs activity & destruction of democracy and constitutional order Insincerity in law-making & activity against the assembly and electorate Position on reforming bills & policies Suspect behaviors reflecting on the basic qualification for politicians Failure of civil duties

Materials for Investigation Reports by National Assembly Reports by mass media Juridical reports Related books and pamphlets Campaign pledge books by politicians Reports by politicians

Process for Blacklisting Representative Board Policy Advisory Committee 100 Voters Committee Representative Board Lawyers’ Advisory Team Policy Advisory Committee Executive Committee Co-Secretariat Opinion Poll on Criteria Investigation by Investigation Team

The 100 Voters Committee Composition Gender Age Occupation Region Male 51 Female 49 Age 20s - 27 30s - 28 40s - 19 50s and above- 26 Occupation Farmers - 11 Self employed - 12 Factory workers - 17 Office workers - 14 University students-5 Housewives - 33 None - 8 Region Seoul - 25 Busan & Kyungnam - 16 Daegu & Kyungbuk - 11 Incheon & Kyungkido - 25 Honam - 11 Daejeon - 2 Chungbuk - 2 Chungnam - 4 Gangwon - 3 Jeju - 1

Activities of CAGE Preparation From ideas and suggestions to the establishment of CAGE “Adieu, the 20th century! Go with the old politics!” De-nomination Release of the blacklist against candidacy and Campaign for withdrawal of nomination Voter Participation Bus tour, Web site, telephone for info service, signature Defeat Release of the blacklist and the campaign in full-scale

Campaign It’s time for change! Announcing De-nomination list “Withdraw Corrupted Politics” “Banish Corruption” Announcing Defeat list *Please click the mouse on the image.

Campaign ”I will not vote for the candidate on the CAGE blacklist” Red Festival for young electorate *Please click the mouse on the image.

Results 47% of blacklisted nominees failed to be a candidate Nation-wide defeated rate: 69% (59 out of 86) Defeated rate in 22 main areas: 68% (15 out of 22) Seoul metropolitan area: 95% (19 out of 20)  CAGE Online Total number of accesses: 856,090 Average access number per day: 10,569 E-mails to the Webmaster: 8,000 Messages on Bulletin board: 45,674 Supporters Signatures: 28,319 Donation Total number of supporters: 5,667 Fund raised: 350,191,652 Won ($291,826) Expenditure: 328,851,681 Won ($274,043)

Challenges Issue of legitimacy Debate over the criteria of selecting unqualified candidates Conspiracy and collusion theories Difficulty of access to document

How was the tactic born? Citizens’ Solidarity for Parliamentary Monitoring - Monitoring of the activities of The NA in session - Selection of the “Best” and “Worst” lawmakers Meeting held behind the closed doors Need of more powerful action Dragging out activists to keep them from monitoring the annual Government inspection held by the National Assembly 1999 *Please click the mouse on the image.

Recommendations? Simplify criteria! No exception! Don’t give up. Make the issue! Extraordinary endurance! You should really defeat unqualified candidates! Mr. President, Please stop killing my son! Sincerely, 000’s mother, 000

Conditions? National consensus; anti-corruption Experience of strong solidarity * Accumulated know-how on monitoring and listing

Development? On-line campaign for internet users Launching of the website ”Open the National Assembly“ based on know-how of defeat campaign * The movement for the press reform

People’s power can change the society.