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The Two Koreas.(Roh Moo Hyun, Millennium Democratic Party vs. Lee Hoi Chang, Grand National Party South Korea)

Newsweek International

| December 23, 2002 | Wehrfritz, George; Lee, B. J. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The bickering started during the evening-news hour. Lee Seung Jae, a 39-year-old banker, sat watching TV with his father when center-left presidential hopeful Roh Moo Hyun's image flashed on the screen. "He was looking at Roh and shouting, 'People like him are unstable. How can we turn the country over to this kind of person?' " says Lee. "Indirectly, Dad was asking me to endorse his candidate"--Roh's conservative rival Lee Hoi Chang. By tradition, Lee Seung Jae should have inherited his family's politics; instead he cautioned his father against discussing the election at a cousin's wedding the next day. "I told him: 'Don't talk like that because the guests won't agree ...

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