President Roh Moo-hyun’s Suicide – Political Murder

Former Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun died in a suicide on May 23, 2009 Saturday at the age of 62. He jumped from a 100-foot (30 meter) high cliff behind his house in Bonghwa. Roh was rushed to a hospital in Busan around 8:15 am and died around 9:30 am (local time in Korea). In most English articles about his suicide that I read, his death was generally understood in this kind of context: Former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun admitted that his wife and a relative received six million dollars from a business man Park Yeon-cha during his presidency. ...

Posted in These Korean People on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »