{"id":2227,"date":"2004-03-12T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/03\/12\/more-inside-dope-from-seoul\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T02:46:45","slug":"more-inside-dope-from-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/12\/more-inside-dope-from-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"More Inside Dope from Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seoul is in turmoil as President Roh is removed from power
\n for what to us Westerners seems an insignificant verbal transgression;
\n in a television interview last month he said he "would do everything
\n legally permissable" to help elect legislators from the party which supports
\n him in upcoming congressional elections.  Unfortunately, the Korean
\n Constitution requires the President to stay neutral on all other elections.
\n And for this he is being impeached?<\/p>\n

Tom Coyner, publisher of the free subscription newsletter Korea Economic
\n Reader (Email: coyner@gol.com) has an interesting take on why the impeachment
\n went forward on such a seemingly flimsy charge. After first noting these
\n statistics from the International Herald Tribune:<\/p>\n

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\n In a recent poll by the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper, 61 percent of the
\n 737 South Korean respondents said they thought Roh should apologize
\n for the comments
\n that triggered the dispute.<\/p>\n

Seventy-six percent said that if he did apologize, they would oppose
\n his impeachment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Coyner’s Comment: A considered, if not printed, opinion of some journalists
\n here is that this whole affair is a trap set by Roh to discredit his
\n opposition since most people doubt the Constitution Court will uphold
\n the impeachment given the overall case by the conservatives comes across
\n as weak and cynical.)<\/p>\n

He also has a dynamite web log Coyner
\n @ Home in Seoul Korea<\/a>, but you gotta subscribe to the news service to get the latest articles and analysis. No RSS feed visible.\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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