December 19, 1997 (20 Dingchou the winter months), Kim Dae-jung was elected the fifteenth President of the Republic of Korea.


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1997 December 19, 2010, the the Korean Central Election Management Committee officially announced the results of the presidential election, Kim Dae-jung, the presidential candidate of the National Assembly of the new political victory over the Grand National to 40.4% of the vote, Party candidate Lee Hoi-chang and the National Party candidate Rhee was elected the 15th president of the Republic of Korea. Kim Dae-jung was born in Korea in 1925, South Jeolla Province. 1960s he began in politics, had six times elected to Congress three times running for president ended in failure. Park Chung-hee, Chun Doo Hwan during the reign of Kim Dae-jung who have been kidnapped, put under house arrest and in jail. In 1995, he returned to the political arena, to create a new political national conference, the president, running for president again in 1997.