Kim Dae-jung
Kim Dae-jung[3] (6 January 1924 – 18 August 2009) was a South Korean president. In 2000, he got the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the first person from Korea to get a Nobel prize.[4] A Roman Catholic since 1957, he has been called the "Nelson Mandela" of Asia [5] Kim Dae Jung was the President (succeeding Kim Young-sam) from 1998 to 2003. He was born in Haui-do, South Jeolla Province, an island off the South Korean Coast in 1924.[6]
Kim Dae-jung 김대중 金大中 | |
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 Official portrait, 1998 | |
| 8th President of South Korea | |
| In office February 25, 1998 – February 25, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Young-sam |
| Succeeded by | Roh Moo-hyun |
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| Born | 6 January 1924[1] Haui-do, Sinan, Jeollanam-do, Japanese Korea (now Haui Island, South Korea) |
| Died | 18 August 2009 (aged 85)[2] Seoul, South Korea |
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- In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim died on 18 August 2009 at a hospital in Seoul from cardiac arrest caused by multiple organ failure and pneumonia, aged 85.[7]
Kim Dae-jung Media
年轻时的金大中
Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam in 1960
President Chun Doo-hwan visiting U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the White House in February 1981. Reagan invited Chun, in exchange for Chun commuting Kim Dae-jung's death sentence.
The South Korean President and the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Steven Bosworth receive a briefing from a member of the Combined Forces Command.
Yoshiro Mori and Kim Dae-jung in 2000
President George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at the Blue House, in Seoul, South Korea in 2002.
Dae-jung with U.S. president Bill Clinton in September 1999
In February 2001, Russian president Vladimir Putin dined with Kim Dae-Jung.
A roadside memorial for Kim Dae-jung
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References
- ↑ Obituary: Kim Dae-jung." BBC News. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ↑ Kim Dae-jung. 27 August 2009. http://www.economist.com/node/14302282.
- ↑ Kim Dae Jung Korean: 김대중; Hanja 金大中
- ↑ Kim Dae-Jung Archived 2007-06-08 at the Wayback Machine (Short Asian Week biography)
- ↑ Kim Dae-Jung Archived 2006-09-22 at the Wayback Machine (Short CNN biography)
- ↑ "DJ 생일은 1924년 1월 6일". The Dong-a Ilbo. 19 August 2009. http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1.
- ↑ Barbara Demick (19 August 2009). "Kim Dae-jung dies at 85; former South Korean president and Nobel laureate". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2012.