Comments on: Korea Former President’s Suicide, Chinese Reactions

By: Hacker

Hacker — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:38:42 +0000

Please, this won’t happen to any official in China.. so what if they take bribes and ask for free sex…

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:11:17 +0000

maybe he owed money from the chinese loan shark triads with 888% interest rate and he can’t afford the interest so he committed suicide

By: Alikese

Alikese — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:48:49 +0000

That story is hilarious, if you guys want to see western views on Chinese stories (oppo-Chinasmack) these are the comments from Fark about that story:

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4404531

By: Fat American

Fat American — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:28:54 +0000

Long live Mr. Lai!

By: Yong

Yong — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:53:16 +0000

His family members indeed took the money but to think that Roh wasn’t aware of this is preposterous.

By: Yong

Yong — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:49:35 +0000

He came from a rural farming family. He never went to college but self-taught and passed the bar exam in Korea. His campaign slogan was to rid of all corruption in S.Korea and succeeded in getting the trust of the S.Koreans. But his wife, son and daughter pressured him to take bribes to buy properties in the US. He succumbed to the pressure of his family members which are extensions of himself and finally took his life out of being guilty of hypocracy.

By: krdr

krdr — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:54:02 +0000

Someone could find “big political game” beneath surface. Roh tried to maintain good relations with North Korea. Maybe he was pushed from the rock, then NK, in a rage for losing good friend, made A bomb test?

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Mon, 25 May 2009 04:11:02 +0000

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By: Xczj21

Xczj21 — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:02:30 +0000

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By: Jim in New York

Jim in New York — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:17:16 +0000

Politicians, their family and their friends accepting “tainted” money and participating in what can be construed as corrupt activities happens everywhere and in my opinion, simply inevitable. (Power, fame and wealth is a morally deadly combo)

I find Former President Roh’s suicide part-tragic and part-devious.

Tragic because a death is involved. However, it’s even more tragic because past rulers and presidents of the Republic of Korea have gotten away with larger sums of money all the way up to crimes against humanity. Most of their families are currently living the good lives with barely a care of the black marks left upon them by their predecessors. Clearly, Roh didn’t have the political power and background that would’ve shielded him (as was the case with other rulers).

It’s part-devious because his death will effectively end any investigations in his wake. The real bad guys behind all this are laughing all the way to the bank because they got a sucker (Roh) to nicely cover up for them.