Word: moos
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...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...
...Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan was suspending plans to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces (S.D.F.) to Iraq by the end of the year. "We could send troops if the circumstances permit," he said. "But they do not." Around the same time, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told his Cabinet to limit Korea's contribution to 3,000 soldiers; the U.S. had requested at least...
...Give Roh a Chance You summed up very well the troubles of South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun stemming from the country's economic problems and the North Korean threat [Oct. 20]. However, your reporting seemed preoccupied with a certain right-wing point of view. A growing number of people want to stay with Roh and support his request for a public vote of confidence. They see this as a good opportunity to set a precedent and exert the people's power to judge their leadership. The news media often make matters worse by exaggerating people's concerns. Kang...