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Mail Call: Seoul's Leader.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

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Readers of our March 3 article on South Korea's President Lee took us to task. One said, "The leftist government's defeat does not negate all its achievements." Another wrote, "Roh Moo Hyun's Korean is excellent, as are his speeches." A third simply rejected our comparison of Lee to Nicolas Sarkozy.

South Korea's New President

I'd like to comment on your March 3 cover story on South Korea's new president ("Asia's Sarkozy"). Your writers described the two former leftist governments' total failure, but that is not altogether accurate. During that time, South Korea witnessed many improvements. The chronically close relationships between business ...

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