December 20.2002-Roh Moo-hyun was elected South Korea sixteenth president
December 20, 2002 (the Horse the winter on 17), Roh Moo-hyun was elected the sixteenth president of the Republic of Korea. In December 2002,
Roh Moo-hyun, the sixteenth president of the election to hold a referendum, as of local time at 0:24 on the 20th, the ruling Millennium Democratic Party presidential candidate Roh Moo-hyun , a slight majority of the voting rate of 48.9% versus 46.6%, to overcome strong opponents --- South Korea's largest opposition Grand National Party presidential candidate Lee Hoi-chang, was elected South Korea's next president. (On www.TodayOnHistory.com)
Roh Moo-hyun after being elected to his new Millennium Democratic Party and the voters expressed his thanks, and have to create an "era of dialogue and compromise." Incumbent President Kim Dae-jung phoned Roh, congratulations on his election as the next President.
this election is the first election in South Korea since the beginning of the 21st century, the election results will directly affect the situation in the Korean economy to overcome the financial crisis and the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. born in a peasant family in 1946
Roh was able to complete their studies on a scholarship because of a poor family, has served as a lawyer, from August 2000 to March 2001 the Ren Hanguo Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister. Roh's campaign slogan is "to achieve the transition from the old to break the old politics and the politics of privileges" and said it would deepen the reform, anti-corruption and governance of innovation, continue to advance toward detente policy governing the main theme.
Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun
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