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segment of Chungchong voters alienated from both Kim Jong Pil and Kim Dae Jung. Rhee
In Jae and Lee Hoi Chang jealously held each other in check in Taejon and Chungchong
by respectively pulling 26.1 percent and 26.9 percent of votes, while Kim Dae Jung with
an active support of Kim Jong Pil won 43.1 percent — an increase of almost sixteen points
since December 1992 when Kim Jong Pil backed Kim Young Sam of Korea’s then
governing Democratic Liberal Party.
46
See endnote 43.
47
Kim Jong-pil’s rating stood at 2.9 percent before he withdrew in support of Kim Dae-
jung. That of Cho Soon was not much higher — 5.3 percent. See Figure 5.
48
The prosecutors inquired into financial subsidies and privileged loans received by filed
business ventures of Kia, Chong’gu, and Kyongsang for abuse of public authority and
graft by Hannara legislators, including Minjong’gye’s Kim Yun-han and Lee Sin-haeng.
The prosecutors also subpoenaed a former head of South Korea’s politicized National Tax
Agency for “extorting campaign funds” from chaebol conglomerates for Hannara in 1997.
Then there was an arrest of three obscure figures for having contacted North Korea to
orchestrate a mock military incident to stir up a McCarthist red scare, with a hope of
derailing Kim Dae-jung’s presidential campaign. See Joongang Ilbo, March 23, May 19,
June 9, August 4, September 1, and September 25, 1998.
49
Chosun Ilbo, August 11, 2000, and March 12, 2001.
50
Chosun Ilbo, February 8 and 16, 2001.
51
Under such a calculation, Lee Hoi-chang attacked Chung Mong-jun as much as Roh
Moo-hyun. Consult Chosun Ilbo, November 24, 2002.
52
Chosun Ilbo, November 24~26, 2002.
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