With general election just weeks away, two major opposition parties united to start an impeachment motion against President Roh because the President refused to appologize for openly declaring his support for the budding pro-government party. Their silly excuse aside, the two parties control enough votes to impeach the President so this is a serious turn of events.
The largest party was expected to win the last Presidential election and still has control of the Assembly but, thanks to staggering corruption charges that has surfaced since the Presidential election, they are expected to lose much of their Assembly seats to the pro-government party.
The other party involved used to be the President's party but it turned nasty when the young bloods supporting the President formed their own party after the established party members refused to overhaul the party. They are also fighting for their existance because they are losing votes to the new party.
If I seem biased, you bet. I like President Roh. In fact, he is the first Korean President I like because he is uncorrupted, unassuming, and determined to cleanup Korean politics. In comparison, last one sent half a billion dollars to North Korea to get the Nobel Prize and the one before that funnelled covert KCIA fund to his political party, the same one that is trying to drive President Roh out of office.
I am expecting Korean citizens to storm the Assembly if the impeachment goes through.
Don Park's Weekly Habit 