I am sitting in my room at on the 18th floor of the Seoul Plaza Hotel in South Korea around 10 pm watching about 3000 Koreans stage a protest rally in front of City Hall below with shouts to impeach Korea’s President Lee. Seoul reverberats with antigovernment slogans. While people march by candlelight, loudspeakers blare the songs South Koreans sang during their struggle against the military dictators of the 1970s and 1980s. One of the reasons?
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I Intend to Start Anew, President Lee, South Korea
A few days ago in this blog I talked about the difficulties President Lee of South Korea was experiencing in part due to selecting a cabinet whose backgrounds reflected an abundance of self interest vs. public service. During my stay in Seoul I was amazed by the massive protests rallies again President Lee not only for his cabinet selections but lifting the ban on USA beef—feared to possess Mad Cow Disease (Mad Cow Disease?!!!! Huh????)
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