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...country's leading politicians were at one another again, chest shoving, dragging each other around like drunks at a rock concert, hurling profanities, punches, shoes and furniture. Decorum finally was restored for a floor vote, and all that energetic wrath was focused on one man: South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun. After a vote tally of 193-2, National Assembly Speaker Park Kwan Yong gravely announced that the legislature had garnered the two-thirds majority necessary to impeach Roh, plunging the country into a political crisis...
Lamentably, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun has said he will not make human rights a factor in negotiations with the North. This pledge is in harmony with Seoul’s “sunshine policy” of North-South détente. Stemming from fears of a North Korean offensive or a massive refugee influx, “sunshine” has in practice meant appeasement. Its moral vacuity was laid bare this past August, when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock...
...When Roh Moo Hyun was vying for the presidency in late 2002, he realized he needed the swing voters of North and South Chungcheong provinces. So he promised to move the country's capital there, some 150 km south of Seoul. At the time, opponents ridiculed him for shameless pork barreling. But Roh won the office, and his shrewdness has proved contagious. With legislative elections coming up in April, lots of lawmakers want to appeal to Chungcheong voters. Shortly after Christmas, the South Korean legislature, with only a handful of dissenters, passed a law stating that the capital would...
Less than a year ago, Roh Moo Hyun was the Howard Dean of South Korean politics, his grass-roots presidential-election campaign generating buzz on the Internet while attracting millions of young voters yearning for an incorruptible candidate. In one of the enduring images of the race, idealistic Roh supporters took to the streets to collect donations and hand out colorful piggy banks to individual voters. The message of the fund-raising drive was obvious: Roh would answer to the people, not to the big corporations that purchase influence through lavish campaign contributions. He won the election, in part...
...Meanwhile, President Roh Moo Hyun's administration is pressuring lenders to improve their risk-assessment practices?and urging deadbeats to pay up. In mid-November, the Finance Ministry suggested that companies looking to hire new workers should deny employment to job seekers with a bad credit history. "People who don't pay should be punished," says Byeon Yang Ho, the ministry's director of financial policy...