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...woman president—made clear at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night what her top priority would be if elected to the nation’s highest office. “I have only one objective,” South Korean National Assembly member Park Geun-hye said. “I am in to save my country.” Park, who chaired South Korea’s conservative Grand National Party from 2004 to 2006, said that the international community must “brace for more difficult tasks that surely lie ahead?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politician Wants To ‘Save’ Korea | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

...says. But for Korea, it's a matter of history and justice. "To them, it's another show of how Japan is not owning up to its past." In Korea, bitter memories of Japan's colonial occupation live on, harbored by people at the highest levels of government. Lee Hye Hoon, an opposition lawmaker in South Korea's National Assembly, says it's difficult for Japan and Korea to get along because "they attacked us, raped us, took everything from us ... and they still don't apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocky Relations | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...recently forced to abandon its offices after the media revealed that the rent was partly being paid with illegal campaign donations. Its new headquarters: a dingy warehouse. Eager to halt its slide in the polls, the opposition Grand National Party last week elected a new chairperson: Park Geun Hye, popular daughter of assassinated dictator Park Chung Hee. It has also moved its workers to humble digs: a vacant lot, where they will work in tents and converted shipping containers. During the impeachment, Koreans saw that their politicians have passion and aggression aplenty. Now the pols want to show their humility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Waiting Game | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...Neither of us know where the mines are. We are being very careful." KIM HYE-WON, South Korean army lieutenant colonel, on efforts by the North and South to clear a path through the heavily mined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...Plenty of other scenarios could emerge. Chung and other rising political stars like Park Geun Hye, daughter of former autocrat Park Chung Hee might engineer a new party to fight the election. If South Korea's Prince Charming does enter the fray, the outsider aura he's enjoying now could burn off. And, as one MDP insider and Chung skeptic puts it: "The Korean public can distinguish between sports and politics." But stretching out in his seat on the plane to Cheju, Chung already sounds like he's on the stump, talking about improving standards of living, tackling what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cup Winner | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

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