Former South Korean President Kim Young-sam Dies at Age 87
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« on: November 21, 2015, 09:37:09 PM »
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RIP.
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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2015, 10:53:25 PM »
RIP, FF.
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2015, 11:20:59 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2015, 11:34:18 PM »
Mostly FF.

He and Kim Dae-jung split the opposition vote in the first free election after the dictatorship in 1987, allowing the military backed candidate to win with a plurality.

After that, everyone expected him and the other Kim to hook up. Instead, he ended up forming an alliance with the military backed party.

A lot of people saw this as a betrayal. In retrospect, it probably eased the transition to civilian rule. If the full stop opposition had taken power early on, the military might have gotten spooked. This way, there was a slow trajectory from pro-military president to military backed civilian president to liberal civilian president.
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