“그의 죽음을 전해들은 이명박 대통령의 모습을 TV에서 보았다. 기분 탓인지는 모르겠지만 굉장히 초췌해 보인다. 설마하니 노무현이 자신을 내던져 가면서까지 무언가를 주장하리라고는 생각하지 못했을 거다.”

are both factually wrong and foolish.

If there is an issue of blame, it could very well be made against Roh’s family members that profited at his expense, treating him more like a cash cow, thus exposing him to legal prosecution, and that is a real tragedy.

There are also questions that are not being asked, for example, about the missing Blue House electronic archival records. As of now, there is about two-thirds of the original data that has not been accounted for. I am told that the original hard disk storage was also sabotaged so as to prevent data recovery too. What did Roh and his aides want to hide so desperately that they stole the records from the official archives? Does Roh’s suicide have anything to do with this? What was the objective of the prosecutors that were holding off questioning Roh or arresting him? What were they after, if not to arrest Roh?

Your liberal slip is showing. Former supporter Park Yeon-cha has testified that he handed over $6 million to Roh’s wife after she asked for money. Roh himself, while denying the charge of bribery, implicitly acknowledged having supported Park’s business ventures in Vietnam, and his family members have admitted to destroying incriminating evidence like the purchase contract for the luxury apartment in New York.

Roh was probably guilty of soliciting large sums of money and using it for personal and family expenses. His predecessors all were corrupt, too, and once Lee Myung-bak leaves office, he is almost sure to be investigated unless he manages to get a loyal successor elected.

In Korean presidential politics there seems to be an unending cycle of corruption and retribution. Perhaps the next president can break the cycle.

The living examples of people like him give me hope in better world, his suicide really upsets me.