# Korea should devote 0.7% of our gross
national income (GNI) to poorer nations.
1. The UN recommend that OECD membership to
support poor countries by 0.7% of their GNI. Recently the ratio of international
aid to GNI is growing in Korea. However Korea's Official Development Assistance
(ODA) is currently 0.14 percent of the GNI. It is much lower than the average
ODA of other wealthy nations. Critics have said Korea’s commitment to helping
nations overseas was poor among the member countries of OECD. Also There were fears that Korea’s
international reputation would have been damaged had the government not raised
the projected contribution.That why I think we should bring it up to the level
of the UN's recommendation.
3. Famine in Africa has been a serious
problem for a long time. Poorer countries still struggle on
economy and some governments of poor countries cannot satisfy even
fundamental needs of people in their countries. The people who were born in
poor countries have human rights, but they live without any quality of life because they wear born in poor countries. As
a view of the human right,
their rights should be protected by
helps from some countries which are already developed. The Korean
economy has made unbelievable progress during the last 30 years and Korea entered the
line of developed nations. Therefore I think Korea should devote our wealth to poor nations through more active
participation.