I agreed with former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on very few issues, but here is something I think just about everyone can agree with him on:

Former President Roh Moo-hyun shortly before his death reflected that his bid for the presidency was a “big mistake.” “It was a big mistake to aspire for the presidency. It was probably irrational for a person who was unprepared and without an organized power base to lead the government and seek to undertake changes that our society was unprepared to accept,” Roh Moo-hyun wrote on May 20, 2009 in memoirs published Monday containing unfinished manuscripts and unpublished interviews.

The most recent entries were written on May 20, three days before Roh committed suicide. “The goals I tried to achieve as a politician clearly faced setbacks,” he wrote. Roh added lists his mistakes as separating politics and government, self-righteousness and stubbornness, unrealistic policies, his use of language in public, his clash with the media, and tiring the public by fostering a hostile political culture. Yet he also expressed hope that his failures could lay the groundwork for progress.  [Chosun Ilbo]

Roh is the definition of a failed president and here is Roh at his most hypocritical:

Referring to a corruption scandal involving his wealthy supporter Park Yeon-cha, Roh wrote, “Success or failure in politics does not depend solely on ethics.”

I find this passage interesting considering that he was the one who continuously bashed Park Chung-hee and other prior Korean political figures for the unethical ways and then turned around and claimed to the be the cleanest politican in Korean history.  As we now know he wasn’t so clean and that is probably what led to his suicide.