Their activities are consuming about 7% of GNP--almost exactly the same as the much-reviled defense establishment.
Education's share of GNP is determined by political considerations rather than by any market process.
Any policy toward Pyongyang, GNP leaders say, must be based on the principle of reciprocity.
In fact, as the economy expanded globally and world GNP got larger, so did the problems.
Perhaps the most significant outcome is that legislative power is now firmly tilted toward the GNP.
In the US, GNP has risen sharply in the past 40 years, but happiness has not.
Mr Sohn's DP has a slight lead over the GNP, according to Realmeter, a polling firm.
The latter is expected to jump from last year's moderate 1.8% of GNP to 4.9%.
The ODA target of 0.15 per cent of donor's gross national product (GNP) had not been met.
But in the end this was not enough to enable the ruling party to overtake the GNP.
Second, relentless pursuit of GNP to the exclusion of other goals is also no path to happiness.
The percentage of Soviet GNP dedicated to defense spending should be below 10% within the next 12-24 months.
Reflecting the new mood, the MDP's Rhee proposed to make the GNP a "partner" in the national administration.
Barring mass defections from other parties, he may have to seek rapprochement with Lee Hoi Chang and the GNP.
Comparing U.S. education's GNP share with that of other countries is also disillusioning.
For the moment, even though the GNP is divided, Park Geun-hye is the favourite to fill her father's shoes.
His support among core Democratic Party voters is weak: he defected to them from the GNP only in 2007.
Lee Hoi Chang has never really firmly gripped the GNP, and analysts see the beginnings of a power struggle.
The GNP itself has hardly been effusive in its support for the president.
Indeed, that proportion is roughly twice the percentage of GNP allocated to defense by seven out of fourteen NATO nations.
The GNP's sweep of the southeast led President Kim to bemoan the hold regionalism continues to exert on Korean politics.
These two republics alone comprise the vast preponderance of the former Soviet Union's GNP, population, natural resources and other assets.
In fact, the Republic of Korea spends 5.5 percent of its GNP and one-third of its national budget to defend itself.
The current-account deficit rocketed to a high of 8.8% of GNP in 1995, and is forecast to hit 7% this year.
"The summit news revealed the ill intention of President Kim and convinced the swing voters to vote for the GNP, " said Lee.
Our initial targets were at the level of 6.5% to 7.5% GNP growth, but we have downscaled that by one percentage point.
The state budget is tailored to achieve a surplus of 1% of GNP, with a copper price at its long term value.
Central bank governor Dai Xianglong aims to keep money-supply growth lagging GNP.
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