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	Elections in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in South Korea are held on national level to select the President and the National Assembly.
		Under the original constitution of South Korea, the president was elected indirectly by the National Assembly.
		By-election held on 2005-10-26 in Bucheon, Daegu, Gwangju and Ulsan districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_South_Korea (961 words)

	Politics of South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of South Korea takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		South Korea elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature.
		The main political parties in South Korea are the Uri Party, the Grand National Party (GNP), the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), and the Democratic Party (DP).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_South_Korea (617 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		"South Korea faces a divided economy and bitter political issues, including negotiations with North Korea and the growing unpopularity of the American bases, especially with the younger generation that comprise the largest support group of the Uri Party," he says.
		The election results also affirm the rise in influence of the younger generation in South Korean politics.
		In its editorial on Friday, the Korea Herald said a pivotal issue in South Korea is Roh's ability to work out a compromise between the reform-minded Uri Party and the opposition.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FD17Dg03.html (831 words)

	Asia Society: Publications - Korea's 16th National Assembly Elections
		General elections for the 16th term of the Korean National Assembly are scheduled for April 13, 2000, and the public is harboring high hopes for a new breed of politicians with vision, morality, and competence.
		In the 14th Assembly election held on March 24, 1992, the ruling DLP led by President Roh and Kim Young Sam again was not able to obtain a majority of legislative seats, coming up one seat short of a simple majority.
		The April 13 election, to be held at the midpoint of President Kim’s term, is regarded as an interim evaluation of his administration.
	www.asiasociety.org /publications/korean_elections (8946 words)

	BBC News \| Korean elections 97 \| South Korea: A political history
		The division of Korea after WWll and the subsequent war with the communist North shaped the early politics of the Republic of Korea, which was proclaimed in August 1948.
		Throughout the 1950s, the South was sustained by crucial US military, economic and political support, enabling it to overcome attempts by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) led by Kim Il Sung, to undermine the regime.
		Syngman Ree was President of the Republic of Korea until April 1960, using the cloak of anti-communism to rule autocratically, limiting political freedom.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/special_report/1998/south_korea/39111.stm (588 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Liberal Uri Party Takes Majority in South Korea's Parliamentary Elections
		South Korea's pro-government Uri Party campaign chief Kim Keun-Tae (R) shakes hands with another of his party's candidates after winning the parliamentary elections in Seoul, South Korea.
		South Korea's Constitutional Court is widely expected to reject the impeachment, which came after the president was found to have violated an election law, and allow President Roh to return to office.
		It appears that this election means that for the first time, a reformist, liberal president in South Korea will have the backing of a majority in the National Assembly.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-4-15/20935.html (459 words)

	In South Korea, all politics is national Campaigns & Elections - Find Articles
		Some 20 years ago, elections in South Korea were generally decided by large-scale fraud and intimidation, which ensured that the sitting president kept his position and had the services of a rubber-stamp legislature.
		That dynamism was on full display in local elections on May 31 in which the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) swept six of seven mayoral races in major cities representing 23 million of South Korea's 48 million people.
		Korea is one of the most wired nations in the world.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_7_27/ai_n16714078 (873 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from Korea; North and South
		All registered voters in South Korea will cast two ballots on Thursday: one for the party representative for their riding, or district; the second for one of 13 parties that are running nationwide.
		This could help the cause of Korea's self-described "true" progressive party, the DLP, to secure a few seats, and it could also mean that Korea's fringe parties, ranging from the socialists to the Silver Right Party, could secure a few seats in the assembly.
		South Korea's politics have long been dominated by regional concerns and politically motivated rivalries.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Korea/FD15Dg03.html (1778 words)

	Online NewsHour: South Korea Troubles -- December 4, 1997
		South Korea's double digit economic growth of the 70's and 80's was known as the Miracle on the Han River, because much of the boom took place along that river in and near Seoul.
		By 1994 South Korea, with 43 million people, was the world's largest producer of home appliances, the second largest producer of semi-conductor chips, and the second largest ship builder, more semi-conductors by last year, Korea was the 11th largest economy in the world, as large as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia combined.
		Korea's finance minister promised to "make their management transparent and refrain from excessive borrowing." Yesterday, the Korean government also ordered nine merchant banks to suspend operations, giving them until March 1st to restructure their finances.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/skorea_12-4a.html (1071 words)

	By-Elections in South Korea: Democracy Marches On
		The by-election results are a serious political blow to President Roh Moo Hyun and his Uri Party, which was weakened in March when it lost a slim parliamentary majority after five Uri legislators were forced to resign for electoral law violations.
		The elections are unlikely to alter the South’s policy of engagement and reconciliation with North Korea.
		On the bright side, despite being a disappointment for Roh and the Uri Party, the by-election proves that the Korean people are holding their leaders to account for their policies and that democracy continues its march forward in South Korea.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm737.cfm (1055 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 10/12/2006 \| North Korea dares the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In South Korea, the government of President Roh Moon-hyun is already a lame duck and politically paralyzed.
		The United States, South Korea and China must act together to show that these calculations are misguided and that the North will pay a painful price if they go ahead.
		South Korean officials understand that without reinforcing the alliance now, no policy toward the North can be effective.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/15741168.htm (801 words)

	The World Today - High stakes in South Korea elections
		The elections in South Korea dubbed the most important in its 17 years of democracy, are both a referendum on the historic impeachment of the President and a fierce fight between old and young.
		The scandal has highlighted the way in which the election is a battle of the ages, a poll where a yawning generation gap is likely to determine the outcome.
		MARK SIMKIN: Until the old age gaffe, this election was going to be a referendum on the unprecedented impeachment of President Roh Moo Hyun.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1087940.htm (575 words)

	CNN.com - Voting begins in South Korea parliamentary elections - April 12, 2000
		SEOUL, South Korea -- Voting has begun across South Korea in parliamentary elections that observers say are critical to the country's economic and political future.
		In the election, Kim is seeking a mandate for his economic reforms and engagement with the North's communist government.
		Millions of North Koreans immigrated to South Korea after the 1945 division of the Korean peninsula and during the 1950-53 Korean War, and most have lost touch with their families in the North.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/04/12/skorea.election (764 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		Vote-counting for the National Assembly elections finished in South Korea with the opposition Grand National Party securing 133 seats, while President Kim Dae Jung's ruling party finished with 115 seats in a 273-seat parliament.
		South Korea's April 13th National Assembly elections signified a new hope for cleaner politics but the campaign trail showed little signs of addressing substantive policy issues.
		This editorial in the Korea Herald argues that the April 13 elections are significant because they are a test of democracy as well as a confidence vote for the current Kim Dae Jung administration.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=16934 (989 words)

	South Korea stokes feud with Japan over islands - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		SEOUL President Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea stoked a territorial dispute over a cluster of rocky islets on Tuesday, lambasting Japan just days after the two nations had avoided a high-seas showdown with a compromise that neither side expected to last long.
		In a compromise reached Saturday, Japan agreed to cancel the survey and South Korea said it would drop plans to register Korean names for undersea features near the islands at an international conference in June.
		Many South Koreans accused their government of giving up too much to Tokyo, while the dispute gave Japan another chance to advertise Tokyo's territorial claim.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/04/25/news/korea.php (599 words)

	Windows on Asia
		The US occupied South Korea until elections could be held in the war-ravaged country in 1948.
		These elections brought Syngman Rhee to power as the first President of the Republic of Korea; This government was legally recognized by the UN on December 12, 1948, as the government of Korea.
		North Korea launched a surprise attack on the south on June 25, 1950 and quickly over-ran much of the country.
	www.asia.msu.edu /eastasia/NorthKorea/history.html (1181 words)

	City Mayors: Local government South Korea
		Modern politics in South Korea have understandably developed under the shadow of its hostile neighbour and former constituent part in the north, though it finds itself today as a stable liberal democracy and respected actor in East Asia.
		Today, the Republic of Korea is a liberal democracy governed by an executive president elected by the popular vote every five years and a unicameral 299-member National Assembly elected by proportional representation every four years.
		South Korea has only one special city (‘teukbyeolsi’), the capital Seoul, which is then itself divided into 25 wards and a further 522 neighbourhoods.
	www.citymayors.com /government/southkorea_government.html (1381 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea, 1950
		This artificial division was consolidated by the exclusion from North Korea of the United Nations Temporary Commission, which had been charged by the General Assembly to observe the holding of elections on a democratic basis in the whole of Korea.
		After the consolidation of the division of Korea, propaganda and hostile activities on the part of the North Korean authorities accentuated tension which, in turn, stiffened the attitude of the Government and people of the Republic of Korea, and even further prejudiced such possibility, of unification by negotiation as might have remained.
		Although there appeared to be little justification for interference in some other cases, the results of the elections, in which many candidates critical of the Administration were returned, showed that the voters were in fact able to exercise their democratic freedom of choice among candidates, and had cast their votes accordingly.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1950-korea-un1.html (1116 words)

	The Elections in South Korea: A Victory for the Electoral Process
		The April 15 elections in South Korea marked the first significant shift of power in the National Assembly in four decades.
		While Korea’s electoral system has been considered highly advanced in terms of registration procedures, the process has been tainted in the past by corruption and irregularities due to lack of transparency and poor enforcement of campaign laws.
		This election was the cleanest and most open in South Korea’s often-turbulent political history.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm484.cfm (861 words)

	City Mayors: South Korea elections 2006
		Seoul, South Korea's capital, elected a new mayor
		South Korea’s main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) won Wednesday’s (31 May 2006) nationwide local elections by a landslide, almost certainly sweeping at least 11 of 16 large city mayor and provincial governor seats except for the Jeolla provinces.
		The opposition party won all 25 elections for district chiefs of Seoul, and almost 90 per cent in the 66 constituencies in the metropolitan area.
	www.citymayors.com /politics/southkorea_elections06.html (940 words)

	South Korea News.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Education authorities in Kunsan, South Cholla Province, are investigating a teacher accused of ordering two of her sixth grade students to write in their blood as punishments for not doing their...
		South Korea will seek to build an independent missile defense system amid growing security jitters sparked by North Korea's missile and nuclear tests, according to the officials.
		South Korea News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world.
	www.southkoreanews.net (1155 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: South Korea - Elections
		While the official figures are not yet available, the election commission announced that approximately 60.6% of the country’s 35.6 million voters took part in the election.
		On December 19th, voters in the Republic of South Korea went to the polls to elect a successor to current President KIM.
		Based on a November 19th poll, Lee Hoi-chang of the Grand National Party is currently in first place in South Korea’s presidential race, with Chung Mong-joon of the National Alliance 21 and Roh Moo-hyun of the Millennium Party in second and third.
	www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=114 (796 words)

	North Korea / South Korea - U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis, Seven Stories Press
		North Korea spends $20 a year per soldier, whereas South Korea, whose economy is 26 times larger, spends $163,000 per soldier.
		South Korea's social and political achievements are no less remarkable than its spectacular economic growth.
		North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexites of the Korean peninsula.
	www.sevenstories.com /Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100925650 (941 words)

	Online NewsHour: South Korea Elections -- December 19, 1997
		Donald Gregg was a long-time CIA official and U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1989 to 1993.
		You have these candidates; they are expressing their views on television; and I think the journalist’s sophistication is demonstrated in this election, and the political culture in general in the mass belief systems is shown to be very sophisticated, and I am very, very hopeful about the future of democracy in South Korea.
		Kim’s election, and he has to basically say if you want a modus vivendi, if you want peace and stability on the peninsula, Chung Young has to talk to the new government in South Korea.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec97/skorea_12-19.html (2355 words)

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