日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

   

Ex-Hyundai CEO wins S. Korea election

(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-19 21:06

Just days before the vote, the parliament voted to authorize an independent counsel investigation into Lee in a stock manipulation case where prosecutors had already cleared him of wrongdoing. The counsel is to complete the probe before the Feb. 25 inauguration, and Lee has said he would step aside from the presidency if found at fault.

"I want to thank the people who have defended me from numerous negative campaigns," Lee told reporters Wednesday morning after voting in Seoul.

Hundreds of supporters watching results on a giant TV in front of the Grand National Party's headquarters burst into song Wednesday evening as Lee's apparent victory was announced.

"I am very happy and it is like retaking democracy after a decade" of liberal rule, said Park Mi-won, a housewife in her 50s.

Unlike previous elections dominated by issues like security policy with rival North Korea or relations with the United States, this year voters were focused on economic matters due to concern over sky-high real estate prices, soaring unemployment and a widening gap between rich and poor.

Nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for his get-the-job-done business acumen, Lee's support has been bolstered due to dissatisfaction over the five-year term of liberal President Roh Moo-hyun, who was constitutionally barred from seeking re-election.

In 2002, Roh was elected after pledging not to "kowtow" to the US while also continuing the rapprochement with the North fostered by his predecessor and fellow liberal Kim Dae-jung, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his "sunshine" policy of engagement with Pyongyang.

Lee has made the economy central to his campaign, pledging to raise annual growth to 7 percent, double the country's per capita income to US$40,000 and lift South Korea to among the world's top seven economies — known as his "747" pledge.

Lee first gained prominence as head of Hyundai's construction unit that symbolized South Korea's meteoric economic rise in the 1960-70s. As Seoul mayor from 2002-2006, he made his mark by opening up a long-paved-over stream to create a new landmark in the capital that also earned him environmental credibility.

Lee's march to the presidency hit a bump this week when a video was released by his liberal rivals showing him saying in 2000 that he founded a firm implicated in fraud. Although he had admitted the same in printed interviews, the video put the words directly into his mouth.

The case revolves around a Korean-American former business associate of Lee's who faces charges for stock manipulation, embezzlement and forgery after his extradition from the U.S., where he allegedly fled with millions of dollars (euros).

Lee has said the taped comments were taken out of context and denied the allegations.

Analysts say the independent counsel investigation will hound Lee after the election as he would be the country's first president-elect to undergo a criminal probe. By South Korean law, a president-elect can be prosecuted but receives immunity from most criminal lawsuits after inauguration.

   1 2   


Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
主站蜘蛛池模板: 就操在线| 在线观看一区二区三区视频 | 欧美亚洲天堂网 | 欧美精品一二三四 | 淫亚洲 | 免费视频国产 | 久久99国产精品 | 日本中出视频 | 亚洲午夜精品久久久久久高潮 | 朝桐光x88av| 色婷婷av一区二区三区软件 | 成人免费毛片高清视频 | 久久精品99国产精 | 美国黑人一级大黄 | 夜夜嗨av一区二区三区 | 久久精品国产精品 | 插妹妹av| 国产做受高潮 | av黄色在线免费观看 | 成年人免费网站 | 欧美午夜理伦三级在线观看 | 五月天青青草 | 中文字幕导航 | 2019天天操| 欧美激情图片小说 | 亚洲免费影视 | 天天草天天| 18av视频 | 欧美日韩午夜视频 | 亚洲精品视频一区二区 | 午夜精品一区二区三区在线视频 | 日韩色av| 亚洲人人 | 视频一区二区视频 | 大色综合| 免费黄色资源 | 99鲁鲁精品一区二区三区 | 日韩av手机在线 | 婷婷综合视频 | 色一区二区 | 久久成人免费视频 |