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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 24 > Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s suicide shocks country

Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s suicide shocks country

By Jean H. Lee / The Bulletin
May 24, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea — Former President Roh Moo-hyun, embroiled in a penetrating corruption investigation, leaped to his death Saturday — a shocking end for a man whose rags-to-riches rise took him from rural poverty to Seoul’s presidential Blue House. He was 62.

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