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Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...sense of national unity. All that is rubbing off on Chung. The latest polls give him 15% in a race with the two main presidential candidates?and he hasn't even said he's running yet. Says Lee Nae Young, an expert on Korean politics at Korea University in Seoul: "If he runs, he could be political dynamite...
...deflated support for MDP presidential candidate Roh Moo Hyun, widely seen as President Kim's horse in the December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart money in Seoul says if Roh can't work some magic in by-elections scheduled for Aug. 8, the MDP could dump him and try to woo Chung...
...table than just cool sports scars. Until 1988, he successfully ran Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest shipbuilder?which gives him credibility among conservative voters who want a financially savvy candidate. With younger voters, Chung can position himself as a fresh face who has steered clear of Seoul's merry-go-round of political corruption. "Economically he emphasizes growth, politically he pushes reform," says Cho Ki Suk, an expert on Korean politics at Seoul's Ewha University. "If he persuades people he can do both, he has a very good chance...
...Blame Game By DONALD MACINTYRE Seoul Virtually the only person italian officials did not blame for their team's shock defeat by South Korea was Osama bin Laden. Italy, the country that invented vendetta, wasn't content merely to point fingers, either. Someone had to take the fall. The victim: Ahn Jung Hwan, who scored the golden goal for Korea that knocked Italy out of the Cup. Prior to his hometown heroics, Ahn was an unremarkable player for Perugia in Italy's Serie A league. Perugia president Luciano Gaucci last week booted Ahn off the team. "I have no intention...