Comments on: The weekly presidential poll (Oct 23-24)

By: peninsular aborigine

peninsular aborigine — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:36:16 +0000

We need a KU president. Lee gets elected, I get a window. Life is good.

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:15:05 +0000

“I told from two years ago that Lee will be the next president of Korea and he will turn the country around.
Lee will do that. Korea will be the most pro-American country in the world.”

He might manage to turn around Korea’s economy and improve the country’s strained relations with the United States, but Korea is unlikely to be the most pro-American country in northeast Asia, let alone the rest of the world world.

By: baduk

baduk — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:23:54 +0000

I told from two years ago that Lee will be the next president of Korea and he will turn the country around.

Lee will do that. Korea will be the most pro-American country in the world.

By: cm

cm — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:50:38 +0000

I’m all for Lee. I just don’t like his beady eyes. They’re evil looking.

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:21:38 +0000

#6: This week’s poll says that 11.8% are undecided.

As a general rule, undecideds break mostly for the frontrunner. So if the election were held today, Lee would likely get around 57%, which is pretty big win in most developed democratic systems.

#7: I’m not prepared to call Lee a lock until the left’s unification negotiations and the BBK case play themselves out.

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:13:49 +0000

Lee’s a lock

By: wonko the sane

wonko the sane — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:58:57 +0000

Anyone know what the percentage of undecided voters is?

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:48:14 +0000

I hope Chung’s popularity has peaked. The N/S summit already feels like old news. I’m reasonably confident that Koreans will vote for a change in direction - specifically, someone not even remotely connected to the present administration - this time around. There may be a few surprises over the next couple of months, but Lee Myung-bak should end up winning. He doesn’t impress me a whole lot, but at least he might actually wind up being a competent leader.

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:10:33 +0000

Andy, the 2007 Korea presidential election wikipedia article needs work. Surely you must the one chosen by God/ Allah/ Yahweh/ Buddha/ Zeus/ overwhelming consensus vote of secular humanist Marmot commenters to accomplish this task.

Joking aside, you could probably bring it up to speed with a little work and then keep it updated as often as needed with just a few moments additional work. Also, I suspect you are more than capable of setting aside your own preferences and putting on an objective encyclopedia writer’s hat quite readily.

IMHO you’d be doing a service to non-Korean non-resident non-ROK-poltical-savvy readers, ones like me who are interested enough to try to follow some of the details from afar but need a baseline reference that they can refer to readily to remind them of who’s who — and what they stand for, since I gather that party coalitions in ROK democratic politics are constantly dissolving and then reforming for individual political situations/elections.

Just a suggestion for you to consider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....tion,_2007

By: peninsular aborigine

peninsular aborigine — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:22:57 +0000

Ddong-young Chung. I’m sorry but if your name rhymes in English, you’re not qualified to become president. It’s as simple as all of that. 2500 years (반반만연) of Occidental jurisprudence can not be wrong!

PS: Inconsistent romanization is also a floggable offense.