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Experts say Kim Young Sam appears to be gaining momentum as the middle-of- the-road candidate. Notes Han Sung Joo, a Korea University political scientist: "Both Kim Dae Jung and Roh Tae Woo are opposed by a majority of the voters. Kim Young Sam is clearly the most electable." He adds that the contest is becoming a race between Roh and Kim Young Sam. No one, however, is quite ready to count out Kim Dae Jung. Though Han believes Kim Dae Jung will capture little more than 30% of the vote, he could still win if the minor candidates...
...guarantees human rights. On the other hand, a formal split between Leading Dissidents Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, dimmed prospects for an opposition victory next month, when South Korea holds its first democratic presidential election in 16 years. The rupture increased chances that Roh Tae Woo, the ruling party's candidate, would emerge the winner...
...Said Kim Dae Jung: "It became evident that we could not reach an agreement on a single candidate." While party mediators scrambled to bring the Kims together again, both men seemed bent on pursuing their own paths. Unless one gives way, they will divide the opposition vote against Roh Tae Woo, head of the ruling Democratic Justice Party and the designated successor of South Korea's autocratic President, Chun Doo Hwan...
...amid all the fanfare normally reserved for a summit between rival heads of state. On one side stood Roh Tae Woo, head of South Korea's ruling Democratic Justice Party, with a smile seemingly frozen on his face. Beaming just as hard and warmly clasping Roh's hand was Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam. After an extended burst of camera clicking, the longtime antagonists sat down in the National Assembly's VIP restaurant to discuss the business at hand: a proposed amendment to the country's constitution. When they rose from their first substantial meeting nearly three hours later...
...Seoul. But since June, when Chun capitulated to popular demands for democratic reform, both the government and the opposition have expressed sympathy for the workers' plight. "It is true that the government has sided with management in the past out of the need for growth and stability," said Roh Tae Woo, who heads the ruling Democratic Justice Party, "but it must now side with labor to compensate for sacrifices made for the nation's economic development...