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...campaign debts, prosecutors allege. In return, Lee Young Roh promised, SK would get help from the new administration if the company "faced any problems," according to the indictment. During a follow-up meeting in the luxurious Plaza Hotel in downtown Seoul less than a week later, Sohn met with Choi Do Sul?a Roh confidant who is so close to the President he is known as "the eternal butler"?and handed over $915,000 worth of certificates of deposit, prosecutors allege in the indictment, which was lodged against Choi...
...Choi was arrested on Oct. 16 and is awaiting trial on corruption charges. (Lee Young Roh suffered a stroke and is incommunicado.) At least 11 other aides, friends and associates of Roh are under scrutiny. Among them are Lee Kwang Jae, a former Blue House secretary for information and policy planning, who resigned on Oct. 18 after being accused by opposition party members of accepting bribes, and Ahn Hee Jung, a presidential aide who is currently on trial for allegedly funneling $166,000 from a faltering commercial bank into a private political research institute set up by Roh. Meanwhile, investigators...
...friend of mine—Dahm Choi ’05—and I were sitting in a Weld Hallway freshman year and I was explaining how the problem with Harvard was that there weren’t enough hallways—doors open, music playing, people wandering around, hanging out. We decided we’d start a poetry group someday and call it “The Hallway.” I actually did it when my workshop ended freshman spring and I wanted a community of people to keep me writing—typical Harvard initiative...
...himself has not been implicated in any wrongdoing in the Choi case (the Blue House did not respond to repeated requests from TIME for comment). But with blood in the water, Roh's conservative enemies in the Grand National Party (GNP) have been on the attack. In late September, they blocked Roh's nominee for the country's top auditor post and passed a no-confidence motion against Home Affairs Minister Kim Doo Gwan, who was dismissed last month. Lately, they've used a series of annual legislative hearings on government affairs to air allegations that Roh illegally hid real...
...against Kim and four newspapers that published stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul: "The President should be able to handle the scrutiny." Lee Chung Hee, a political scientist at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, says, "If the President has problems, he should solve them through consultation instead of storming off like...