About korea as a donor

After there was a big battle in 1953 in korea, korea was one of the poorest countries. To rebuild the nation korea government ask the fund to alliance at that time. Providing a loan and supplies certainly contributed to rebuild economy like present day. From 1963 we started to provide something for other countries as a donor. At first we invited people who came from other nations to teach various skills. After about 20 years, korea made funds self-supported to help them. It was an important year for starting donation country truly. After that, though there was many economic crisis in korea during about 20 years, ODA volume reached one thousands billion won in 2010. KOICA which manage the project regarding donations to other countries has 27 branches at other countries and OECD report analyze that increase rate of ODA is one of the highest among other countries.

However, Providing ODA can have an adverse effect on the people naturally. Firstly, many recipient countries have suffered strong corruption, so money and supplies don’t reach to normal people. Corruption is able to cut the flow of supplies to people who really want to receive help. Thus, many people living in korea state that it is meaningless until developing country change their distribution system. Secondly, providing something steadily can make people to be getting more and more dependant. One Africa country is living to depend upon another for help about 70%. It can break their self-surviving capacity like a plant in the glass house. Of course, present amount of ODA is not enough for them to keep living their life. However, above two reasons, it can make hard to think providing donation easily. For example, present administration has tough stance toward north-korea because there are some political reasons, but above this most people in korea don’t believe that supplies which are made by us flow to normal people. It might be the main reason why we were able to agree to provide something to north sides easily.

Hence, it is difficult to supply ODA to other countries simply, but we were one of recipient country in the world. That fund such as ODA is certainly part of contribution to rebuild korea as much as present. We can make solutions whenever as long as we try to find solutions. Helping other people is duty as a human. Therefore, korea don’t stop to make the fund for other countries. We mustn’t forget what they did.