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...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 by promising to close down Seoul's merry-go-round of government corruption and bribery scandals...
...million dollars to help repay Roh's presidential 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...
...When U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld received the news en route to Tokyo and Seoul, his response was uncharacteristically diplomatic: "[Iraq is] a dangerous country ... Certainly, people need to participate there with their eyes open." Washington realizes that its allies' reticence isn't rank ingratitude: for both Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Roh, meeting U.S. demands could be political suicide. In a survey last month by the daily Asahi Shimbun, 55% of the Japanese public was against sending troops to Iraq. Koizumi's plan to dispatch the S.D.F. has been criticized by his coalition partner the New Komeito...
...Seoul: Near the Blue House, the official residence of South Korea's President, Soho Village, tel: (82) 2722 1999, offers flats, a French restaurant and an art gallery. A one-bedroom apartment goes for $140 a night...
...sense - morally and politically. Kim Jong Il is responsible for deaths of millions of North Korean people. Granting what he is asking for will prolong the agony and misery of North Korean people. Also when was the last time he held his end of the bargain? Never! H.S. Lee Seoul, South Korea...