South Korea's political problem today is a problem of lacking an able and visionary leader, argued a prominent conservative scholar, who evoked the name of Moses, an eminent figure in the Bible, as an ideal model for leadership.

"My prayer for today is, 'God, please send a Moses-like leader to South Korea. That's my only prayer'," said Kim Dong-gil, a professor emeritus at Seoul's Yonsei University, Chosun Ilbo reported Saturday.

Kim lamented, "How come this country lacks able leaders?" Then, he went on to pass judgments on previous presidents of South Korea. On Park Chun-hee, he said "Park was a determined and firm leader, but lacked the capacity to tolerate different views."

On Kim Dae-jung, he remarked: "Although Kim Dae-jung is a smart person, he has become a 'Godhead' figure for people of southwestern Cholla Provinces. His judgment has also become muddy due to his arrogance."

He then concluded that South Korea's pathological culture of "political cannibalism" has brought the nation to what it is today.

Kim, a conservative scholar of philosophy, has been at the center of controversy lately because of a series of posts about Roh on his personal blog. In one post, Kim said Roh should "commit suicide" when the former president was under bribery investigation. When Roh actually died on May 23 in suicide, Kim faced harsh criticism from Internet bloggers.