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Yoshiro Mori and Kim Dae-jung in 2000 President George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at the Blue House, in Seoul, South Korea in 2002. His swearing-in as the eighth president of South Korea on 25 February 1998, marked the first time in Korean history that the ruling party peacefully transferred power to a democratically ...
Lee Hee-ho, [1] sometimes spelled as Lee Hui-ho, (Korean: 이희호; Hanja: 李姬鎬; 21 September 1922 – 10 June 2019), was a South Korean women's rights activist, peace advocate and former First Lady of South Korea during the presidency of her husband Kim Dae-jung from 1998 to 2003.
Kim Dae-jung (Korean: 김대중; Hanja: 金大中; Korean pronunciation: [kim.dɛ.dʑuŋ]; 6 January 1924 – 18 August 2009) was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the 8th (15th election) president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
After the June Democratic Struggle in 1987, the Reunification Democratic Party split into Kim Young-sam's Reunification Democratic Party and Kim Dae-jung's Peace Democratic Party, and when both Kims ran for president, Park Chan-jong left the Reunification Democratic Party and ran as an independent in the 1971 General Election, winning in Seocho ...
In 1998, at the age of 82, he worked with the South Korean government to provide economic assistance to the North. President Kim Dae-jung wanted to provide a $100 million donation as a way to jump-start economic development in North Korea under his Sunshine Policy. However, Kim could not find a legal way to transfer the funds.
After his sentence was finalized, Chun began serving his prison sentence. On 22 December 1997, Chun's life imprisonment sentence was commuted by Kim, on the advice of incoming President Kim Dae-jung. [28] Chun was still required to pay his fine, but at that point, he had only paid ₩53.3 billion, not quite a fourth of the total fine amount.
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Kim Dae-jung was the 15th President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2000. Paik serves on the Boards of Directors for three Kim Dae-jung-related institutions: the Kim Dae-jung Foundation, the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center, and the Kim Dae-jung Nobel Peace Prize Memorial. He is also the Executive Director ...