Big deal

In “Delays Appear In South Korea’s Big Military Decisions” article, they reported that South Koreas military and government might not meet the ambitious goal to spend a huge money about $12 billion on new weapons and equipment before the end of President Lee Myung-bak’s term. The majority of this shopping list intends to buy the new fighter planes and a set of new attack helicopters and they eliminate allegations of wrongdoing or unfairness by include a special panel of people from 10 ministries and agencies to keep an eye on the purchase process.

In the fighter plane’s purchase process, the procurement agency had fourth rounds of technical negotiations that included the details about the planes, parts and service contracts and three bidders joined in this purchase by sending their test-fly fighter plane into South Korean Air Force’s testing processes; however, one of them was not tested because it only has one seat and they didn’t have enough time to train the Korean pilots fly on the new fighter plane.

In my opinion, if the government controls the process of purchase clearly and fairly, they usually shall get good products in the cheapest prices. The bidder companies usually try to do anything offered the best choice, such as, discounting, adding. On the other hand, if the government does have a clean fair bid process, they might lose their money wastefully and get the ordinary or wasteful items in the high prices; for example, GT200 devices which Thai military and government had bought it and had believed this appliance able to function well for many years ago before they realized the truth. I thought that the conspiracy in military and government got the huge corrupt money from the bad companies.

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Reference
Delays Appear In South Korea’s Big Military Decisions, (2012, November 12) The wall street journal |ASIA. Retrieved November 13, 2012 from http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/11/12/delays-appear-in-south-koreas-big-military-decisions/