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South Korea: Corruption Scandal at the Eve of Election

Monday, December 17th, 2007 @ 11:14 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: South Korea
Topics:: Elections, Politics

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Robert Koehler bets that the reinvestigation of presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak's involvement in the BBK scandal wouldn't change the election result because: nobody’s voting for Lee because he’s the “clean” candidate — they’re voting for him because he’s the “I’ll get shit done” candidate.

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