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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President Kim: despite his announcement of a nationwide crackdown on organized crime, his party got thrashed in critical October by-elections. Newspapers and opposition politicians have hinted for months?without providing evidence?that Yeo was trying to bribe pols in the President's party to help a businessman from Cholla province, Kim's home region. Yeo was convicted a decade ago of running the biggest gang in the Cholla city of Kwangju...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Shadowy figures like Yeo have sparked concern about the growing influence of what Koreans call "political gangsters," powerful godfathers who mingle easily in business and political circles. The media never fail to point out that Yeo also comes from Cholla, an underdeveloped region famous for its gangs. Oppressed by Korea's previous military governments, Cholla politicians and gangsters got to know one another, sometimes in prison. The gangsters acted as bodyguards and did other favors for pols, says Kim Kyu Hun, head of the Seoul district prosecutor's violent crimes division. When President Kim's party came to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...There is no evidence the President's son, Kim Hong Il, himself a legislator, broke the law. His crime may be the company he keeps. Ahn says Cholla's pols should have stopped meeting gangsters once they became important figures in government: "What's the public going to think? If you remain friends with fists, they are going to ask you for favors." Koreans may root for gangsters in the movies, but nobody wants to see the fists getting their hands on real power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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