 After that election, he was moved to the position of Minister of State for Planning in the government named on December 8, 2004.Speaking at a conference in Limbe on 1 September 2006, Kodock discussed the lack of economic development in Cameroon.He described a visit to South Korea; according to Kodock, South Korea and Cameroon had similar GDPs in the 1960s, but South Korea had since then made vast strides, developing a prosperous and modern economy, while Cameroon, still deeply impoverished, was no longer even remotely comparable.