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I want to pay tribute to my “samonim” in today’s editorial. Samonim means the wife of one’s teacher. One of my most influential teachers was Ed Wagner, my thesis adviser and major professor at Harvard. I wrote a piece paying tribute to him several years ago (Sept. 22, 2019). At that time, thanks to the connection provided by my old friend and retired editor of The Korea Times, Hong Soon-il, (who died two months ago at the age of 93), I reconnected with my samonim,Namhi Kim Choi Wagner.
New political factions have emerged as South Korea heads into the general election scheduled for April 10, offering an alternative to the deeply polarized political landscape. Third parties that were launched recently have formed a coalition, the so-called “big tent” that has managed to make waves across the political landscape, wooing voters wary of the brutal power struggles between the two major rival .
The Reform Party, a big tent political party that was formed recently and is led by the former heads of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), finds itself in turmoil, as its leaders clashed, Monday, over a vote to entrust its Co-Chairman Lee Jun-seok with the authority to lead the party’s election campaign and policymaking activities.
The 'big tent' trial: Will South Korea's third party coalition succeed? Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.