1. 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)

2. 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.

3.     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

4. 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,

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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
Self employed - 12
Factory workers - 17
Office workers - 14
University students-5
Housewives - 33
None
Region
Seoul
Busan & Kyungnam - 16
Daegu & Kyungbuk - 11
Incheon & Kyungkido - 25
Honam
Daejeon - 2
Chungbuk - 2
Chungnam - 4
Gangwon - 3
Jeju

9. 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

10. 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.

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

12. 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
s 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)

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

14. 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.

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. People’s power
can change the society.