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...opened between Seoul and the Kaesong Industrial Complex across the DMZ in the North, and work continues on a variety of other infrastructure projects, including extending the rail line all the way to the North's border with China. Not even South Korea's newly elected President Lee Myung Bak, a political hard-liner when it comes to dealing with Pyongyang, seems willing to break the increasingly warm embrace. "If North Korea opens up, and proceeds to dismantle its nuclear program, the South Korean government can increase and deepen its economic cooperation with the North,'' says...
...dramatic events in the eleventh hour, and this presidential election is proving to be no different. On Monday, just two days before the Dec. 19 polls, Korea's parliament, the National Assembly, approved a plan to open an investigation into allegations of fraud against presidential front-runner Lee Myung Bak. The Assembly greenlighted the probe after a video surfaced over the weekend of a lecture Lee gave in 2000, in which he claimed that he set up Korean investment firm BBK, a connection he had previously denied. Kim Kyung Joon, the head of the company and Lee's business partner...
...Japan is getting little help from its neighbors. While Lee Myung Bak, the conservative-leaning Seoul mayor widely tipped to win South Korea's Presidential elections on Dec. 19, is expected to take a harder line with the North generally, Japan's single-minded focus on the abductions makes South Korean observers squirm. Kim Hyun Ho, director of the Chosun Ilbo Research Institute for Korea, notes that while Seoul claims more than 480 abducted citizens of its own, it worries that such a "very political" issue could cloud ongoing nuclear negotiations. "South Korea doesn't want this...
South Korea's leading presidential candidate, Lee Myung Bak, averted a setback that could have cost him the upcoming election when government prosecutors cleared him of fraud accusations in connection with a 2001 financial scam involving a former business partner...
...Myung Bak is a ruthless profiteer who has no concern for the environment. His companies have indiscriminately covered great areas of land with massive apartment buildings. He is only trying to work his way into the American limelight to further his goal of being the next President of South Korea. Patricia Ko, GIMPO, SOUTH KOREA...