This article gave me a good laugh when I read it this morning:

Five years ago, that same group - known as the “386″ generation for being in their 30s, educated in the 1980s and born in the 1960s - rallied behind the maverick presidential candidate they hoped would further promote democratic principles in South Korea.

Today, though, many are disillusioned. The candidate they backed, Roh Moo-hyun, turned out to be too centrist a president for many 386ers’ liking and too radical for most of the population.

After 10 years under Mr Roh and his progressive predecessor, Kim Dae-jung, South Korea looks set to turn back the political clock next week by voting in an old-style president.  [Financial Times]

Roh a “centrist”?  The only way Roh could be more of a leftist is if he put on a brown jump suit, got a funny hair do, and declared juche across the country.  This article goes on to suggest that democracy is under attack in Korea if Lee Myung-bak is elected:

Many political analysts worry that South Koreans risk throwing out what remains a baby democracy with the bathwater. “People now think that the economy is the most important thing and that we need a strong economic leader, so they are prepared to sacrifice democratic development if it leads to a better economy,” said Mo Jong-ryn of Yonsei University.

If anyone is a threat to democratic development in Korea it is the leftists and Roh Moo-hyun himself.  Two days ago you had the leftists literally using chain saws to break into the national assembly and then had a mob attack the conservative law makers.  Today, just three days before the national presidential election, President Roh has authorized a reinvestigation of the leading conservative candidate Lee Myung-bak even though he was cleared of involvement with a corruption scandal.

Make sure to read the entire Korea Times article on this because it shows the lengths the Korean leftists are going to tear down Lee Myung-bak just days before the election with surprise, surprise, comrade Chung Dong-young in the thick of paying off informants and playing dirty tricks.

These attacks and dirty tricks being authorized straight from the Korean president are all being used just days before the presidential election to tear down the conservative candidate to re-elect a leftist candidate.  The leftists are not the defenders of democracy in Korea, but are quite obviously the biggest threat to it.

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