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(3) Kim Dae-jung: Korea’s greatest democrat

(3) Kim Dae-jung: Korea’s greatest democrat

In a 1994 article in the American Foreign Affairs magazine, Kim Dae-jung famously refuted the notion of “Asian-style” democracy championed by Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, saying simply: “Culture is not necessarily our destiny. Democracy is.”

2011-08-24 20:19

Kim Il-sung: disastrous founder of communist N. Korea

Kim Il-sung: disastrous founder of communist N. Korea

On April 15, 1912, roughly around the time the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean, a happy event occurred in the family of a humble school teacher and part-time protestant missionary Kim Hyong-jik. In his home, not far away from Pyongyang, a son was born. His birth name was Kim Seong-ju but he reached worldwide attention under the nom de guerre he adopted in the 1930...

2011-08-17 18:15

Biographer Cho’s comments about Park

Biographer Cho’s comments about Park

Q. Where, in your opinion, would Korea be today without Park Chung-hee?

2011-08-10 19:05

Park Chung-hee: the man who transformed Korea

Park Chung-hee: the man who transformed Korea

The history of modern Korea is dominated by the figure of Park Chung-hee. Through his vision and forceful conviction, the compact dictator — Park was 1.63 meters tall — transformed a people who had traditionally valued poetry and ceremony over manual labor into a cohesive nation of workaholics. Of the revolutionaries and reformers of the 20th century, few built a ...

2011-08-10 18:52

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