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...nothing else, Roh has temporarily shifted the media spotlight from sleaze to stability. "He's in a deep hole, so he's decided to gamble," says political scientist Kim Il Young of Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. Roh hinted last week that he might call off the vote, which might not be constitutional, anyway. If he forces the issue, Roh risks exposing his wobbly presidency to unforeseen complications, like Hong's call for a full-fledged election face-off. However unlikely that may be, the conservative party-which already has a majority in parliament-is rummaging through its ranks...
...idea that taking a foreign cultures course is an acceptable alternative to learning a language is comical. After all, in depth knowledge of “Korean Cultural Identities” doesn’t help much when the task at hand is getting from one side of Seoul to the other...
Yong-In, founded in 1953 and located in the South Korean capital of Seoul, is one of the world’s premier institutions for education in the martial arts...
...allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul: "The President should be able to handle the scrutiny." Lee Chung Hee, a political scientist at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, says, "If the President has problems, he should solve them through consultation instead of storming off like a man possessed...
...Skeptics fear that might be true?that Roh might go down in history as a President who plunged the country into political turmoil through his repeated miscalculations. His administration "is hoping for a miracle," says Ahn of Seoul National University. "Nothing is impossible in Korean politics." But Roh will have to move fast to change the perception that he is out of his depth...