President Lee Jae Myung paid tribute Friday to late former President Kim Younger-sam on the tenth anniversary of his dying, vowing to guide the nation towards a extra mature democracy.
Kim, who served as president from 1993 to 1998, was credited with formally ending a long time of army rule in Korea, however his time period was considerably tarnished with the Asian monetary disaster that finally pressured the nation to just accept a bailout fund from the Worldwide Financial Fund.
Kim is buried at Seoul Nationwide Cemetery.
“Irrespective of the hardship or challenges that lie forward, we are going to proceed our unwavering march towards a extra mature democratic nation and a real democratic republic as former President Kim demonstrated by way of his conviction and resolve,” Lee mentioned in a eulogy learn by presidential chief of employees Kang Hoon-sik throughout a memorial on the cemetery.
Lee honored Kim as a “towering peak within the nice mountain of Korea’s democracy,” calling him a “champion of democracy” who ended the lengthy and harsh winter of army dictatorship and ushered in what he described as “the spring of civilian rule.”
