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U.S. Ally South Korea Nears Pivotal Election
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Kim Kyung-jae, aide to former president Kim Dae Jung, and reconciliation with the daughter of military backed president Park Chung Hee who ruled in the 1970's and suppressed dissent. Presidential candidate, Ms. Park Geun-hye, is reaching out to dissenters who suffered during her father's military regime. Much of the industrialized part of S. Korea is in the southeastern provinces, and Ms. Park's father pushed development in this region. There is a development gap with the southwestern provinces where much of the dissent to the military regime took place. The gap is still being healed many years later. Ms. Park's conservative party hopes to get 20% of the vote from the southwestern provinces with her efforts at reconciliation, up from the current conservative party president Lee Myung-bak who won 9% of the vote there. Moon Jae-in, the liberal candidate for president, is from the city of Busan in the southeastern provinces and hopes to increase his vote in the southeast to 40%.
The development gap betwen South Korea's southeastern and southwestern provinces
12/18/2012
South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun-hye is ommitted to bridging the development gap between S. Korea's southeastern provinces and southwestern provinces. Her father who ran the military government in the 1970's promoted growth in the southeastern provinces. Dissent was concentrated in the southwestern provinces. The gap is still being healed after a new democratic constitution and elections since 1987. Park Geun-hye has reached out to leaders in the southwestern provinces who opposed her father's government and hopes to gain about 20% of the vote in that part of S. Korea, compared to 9% for the current president.
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