2nd Market Economy Speech Contest 안내

“Speaking on Liberalism and the Market Economy in Our Lives”

The Center for Free Enterprise (CFE) is hosting the 2nd Market Economy Speech Contest. Share your own voice on the themes of liberalism and the market economy that are woven throughout our daily lives!

□ Eligibility

: Anyone aged 19 or older

□ How to Participate

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1. Online manuscript submission: Friday, December 8, 2023 ~ Monday, January 8, 2024, deadline 17:30

- Submit the application form on the entry page ▶

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aYcet5fJxNjOaYOrauz0skNoT0CjpNDAQvz9PwHTZX0

- Speech manuscripts should be approximately 1,000 characters in length

2. Preliminary screening: Successful applicants announced on Thursday, January 11, 2024

3. Preliminary passers must submit a PPT file (free format, up to 5 slides / presentation time limited to around 3 minutes per person / PPT submitted for screening purposes only - no beam projector will be used)

- Detailed instructions will be provided individually to those who pass the preliminary round

4. Offline final speech contest: Scheduled for Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 1:30 p.m.

- Yeollim Hall, Forest Vision Center (9 Gukhoe-daero 62-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul / Exit 5, National Assembly Station, Line 9)

* The speech contest will be filmed live on site that day and later uploaded to the Center for Free Enterprise (CFE) website and YouTube channel.

* Copyright for all submitted materials belongs to the Center for Free Enterprise (CFE).

* Participants may freely present using materials needed for the presentation, such as a tablet or printed handouts, placed on the podium.

□ Speech Topic

- Propose ideas from the perspective of liberalism and the market economy for economic development and a more prosperous life

* You may choose a topic from the examples below or select a new one.

1. Problems with protectionism and ways to address them

2. Why strengthening educational competitiveness is necessary and how to achieve it

3. Side effects of sharp minimum wage increases on the market and possible solutions

4. The benefits of privatization and how to implement it

5. Why reducing the number of civil servants is necessary and how to achieve it

6. Solutions for increasing labor market flexibility

7. Why disruptive union strikes are not justified

8. Ways to ease corporate regulations to strengthen business competitiveness

9. Side effects of pharmaceutical regulation (the used-quantity-linked drug pricing system) and improvement measures

10. Why revision of the fixed book price system is necessary and how to achieve it

11. Why easing regulations on large discount stores is necessary and improvement measures

12. Why lowering import tariffs is necessary and improvement measures

13. Harmful effects of public-sector projects such as public delivery apps

14. The need to ease greenbelt regulations and directions for improvement

15. Shortage of technical personnel and why easing enrollment quota regulations for contract-based departments is necessary

16. Problems with current low-income support policies that undermine work incentives and ways to improve them

17. Public pension reform measures

18. Measures to liberalize dispatched work and replacement work during strikes

19. Measures to improve personal information regulations that limit entry into data-based industries

20. The need to introduce flexible work arrangements and how to implement them

21. The need to ease carbon neutrality targets and improvement measures

22. The need to protect property rights and tasks for improvement

23. Institutional reform to strengthen the rule of law

24. Realistic ways to reduce government spending

□ Awards

- Grand Prize: 0 winners (certificate and KRW 1,000,000 gift certificate)

- Excellence Prize: 0 winners (certificate and KRW 500,000 gift certificate)

- Merit Prize: 0 winners (certificate and KRW 300,000 gift certificate)

※ All prize winners will also receive books from the Center for Free Enterprise (CFE) as additional gifts.

□ Additional Information

1. Website traffic increases from the day before the deadline. Please register at least one hour before the deadline.

2. In the case of duplicate submissions, the most recently submitted manuscript will be accepted.

3. Submitted entries cannot be edited or deleted after registration.

4. Copyright for all submitted works belongs to the Center for Free Enterprise (CFE).

5. If a submission plagiarizes a previous prize-winning work or another person’s work, the award may be revoked even after selection, and all legal responsibility lies with the entrant.

6. Personal information of applicants will be collected and retained for awarding prizes, winner notification, prize delivery, and newsletter distribution.

□ Inquiries

: Researcher Sang-yeop Kim

T) 02-3774-5009 E) ksy@cfe.org

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Original title: 제2회 시장경제 스피치 대회 안내

Author: Center for Free Enterprise (CFE)

Date: 2023-11-09

Source: https://www.cfe.org/bbs/bbsDetail.php?cid=notice&pn=9&idx=26126