Kim Young-sam
President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998 · South Korea · Politicians · Lived 1927 to 2015 · aged 87
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Something wrong?South Korea's first civilian president in three decades, who spent nearly 30 years fighting military dictatorships before winning office in 1993 - then watched his approval collapse from 97% to 6% as bridges fell, a department store caved in, and the 1997 financial crisis forced the country into an IMF bailout.
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Presidents of the Republic Of Korea (4261836786)In their own words 3
, Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.
Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
No ally is better than one’s own race.
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Elected to the National Assembly at 25, the youngest in Korean history, Kim Young-sam became a fixture of South Korean opposition through the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, standing against the authoritarian rule of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo-hwan alongside Kim Dae-jung. When he won the presidency in 1992, he arrived as the first civilian in over 30 years and opened with force: a sweeping anti-corruption drive that put both his predecessors in prison and an internationalization push called Segyehwa. Then the ground gave way - literally, with the Seongsu Bridge and Sampoong Department Store collapses - and economically, when the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit and South Korea had to accept tens of billions in conditional IMF loans. His approval rating, once 97%, bottomed at 6% by the time he left office in 1998. He died in 2015; since then the reassessment has been kinder.
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