President Yun Seok-yeo ``I want you to focus on listening to the sentiments of the people on the ground''...Instructs Prime Minister Han Yeong-soo before departure = South Korea

On the 21st, President Yoon Seo-gyul told Prime Minister Han Deok-soo, ``The Cabinet will firmly listen to the sentiments of the people on the ground,'' prior to his departure for 6 days and 4 nights touring Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
"We would like you to focus your efforts on listening to the facts," Kim Eun-hye, chief public relations secretary, said in a written briefing.
President Yoon told Prime Minister Han, ``Administration looking at computer screens, reporting.
Instead of an administration that stays up all night, each level of government should rush to the scene and listen to the raw cries of the people who are in severe trouble, and instead push forward with on-the-ground administration and policy information activities.''
Furthermore, ``We must go out into the field at each level to find the policies that the people want.How we do our work is also important, but we must
It is even more important to find out what kind of work they can do." 'Field-centered administration' is a philosophy that President Yoon has made clear throughout his long career in public office, and is a principle he has emphasized from the beginning of his government.
Kim, the chief public relations secretary, explained. President Yoon said, ``There are so many people who are suffering from the pressure of rising prices due to external conditions, such as high interest rates and rising raw material prices.You have to go there and feel it firsthand.''
. I want them to go back to basics and come up with solid policies,'' he reiterated his request to Prime Minister Han and the Cabinet. On the 19th, President Yoon presided over the ``Essential Medical Innovation Strategy Council to Save Lives and Regions.''
``We must do politics for the people, not politics for the sake of elections or changing the tone for the sake of elections,'' he said. He continued, ``Don't limit yourself to just communicating.
"Don't criticize them, but instead work hard to communicate while promoting your work." President Yoon will make state visits to Saudi Arabia and Qatar one after another from today until the 26th.