Transition team proposes 100 policy tasks for new admin.

President Moon Jae-in's de facto transition team revealed its 100 tasks for the new administration Wednesday, partly calling on the president to honor his election pledges while also offering ways to do so.

The policy recommendations came 71 days after the new president took office on May 10. The de facto transition team, the State Affairs Planning Advisory Committee, was launched shortly after to help set the course of the new administration over the next five years. Moon's single five-year term ends in May 2022.

The committee first categorizes Moon's 201 election pledges into five large groups, also known as the five main policy objectives of his government.

The five groups are then broken down into 20 strategies, which in turn break down to 100 policy tasks. The 100 tasks are further divided into 481 action plans, according to the massive 197-page report from the advisory committee.

One of the five policy objectives stresses empowerment of the people as it calls for a government where the people are the owners.

To this end, the committee recommended the president move his office to the government complex in Seoul's downtown Gwanghwamun area, a key election pledge of Moon that is aimed at enhancing his communication with government officials and the people.

It also calls for far-fetching reform measures for the so-called power organs, including the prosecution, police and the National Intelligence Service, the country's spy agency.

Another policy objective for the new government is to ensure and accelerate economic democratization, which calls for stepped up efforts to create new, quality jobs, also a key election pledge of Moon, as well as greater support for the socially and economically marginalized population.

The committee also calls for efforts to build a nation with greater, better social safety measures, such as increased child support, as well as steps to better protect people physically. This was apparently encouraged by the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry in 2014 where the former administration was blamed for its failure to save more than 300 citizens largely due to its lack of a control tower to ensure immediate and effective rescue operations.

The policy objectives also call for efforts to ensure balanced development of the nation that includes greater autonomy for regional and district governments, along with greater support for rural areas.

Lastly, the advisory committee named the establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula, partly seen in a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue, as one of the five key objectives for the Moon Jae-in government.

Implementing the five policy objectives, let alone the 100 tasks, will not be easy nor free, the committee notes.

The committee said the measures are expected to cost an additional 178 trillion won (US$157.7 billion) over the next five years from 2018.

However, the measures may not immediately lead to a steep tax rate hike, it said.

The committee said up to 95.4 trillion won could be set aside over the five-year period from annual government spending simply by rearranging and reducing government expenditures.

Still, an additional 82.6 trillion won will have to come from an increase in tax revenues, it noted.

The committee disbanded Friday after its two-month operation.