After God created the natural world, man made everything else. Leaders need to seek the best ways of developments and actively involve all members through representations and participation. Community members can make their own projects and plans to ensure their success and sustainability. SAEMAUL UNDONG was successful because many projects were proposed and carried out by the locals.
Leadership must be active. One which never gives up but presses on to achieve, the course it set out for. Leaders according to research determine growth of institutions or organizations or communities. 4K Clubs needed strong and enthusiastic leaders for its success. The difference between the villages that did well and those that didn't for SAEMAUL was leadership.
Innovative leaders spark or begin developments calls and pursue the development course. If active leaders resist change and innovation, even though that may be the right thing to do, developments plans are derailed. So, people should install good leadership and have a careful choice of leaders to determine growth of a community. 5KY Model insists on the need for good leadership and value addition to resources to ensure sustainable developments.
Community organizers and activists should target the least of communities. Successes of projects and plans happen when they are manageable. If very wide, they fail. They should be decentralized and a tight organization for resources management/ and equitable sharing should be observed, Schumacher in his book 'Small is beautiful' urges for decentralization of resources and avoidance of mega structures. Because that is how, members of communities can achieve fairness and growth. The division into manageable villages in Korea was an important part of SAMAUL UNDONG success.
On the other hand, if community organizers replicate other programs, they create competition and divide people's interests something that can backfire, and only become a way of wasting the needed resources for development. Careful planning and communication is important.
Community activists must not show open resistance to the current leadership or regime or local leadership or be political. Political views divide people easily. Networking with existing community groups and organization is vital for growth.