Hyundai chief commits suicide

[rooboy]

CHUNG Mong-hun, top executive of South Korea's Hyundai conglomerate who was embroiled in a scandal over a historic 2000 summit between the two Koreas, committed suicide today, a police source said.

"Mr Chung jumped off his office in the 12th floor of the Hyundai headquarters building" in central Seoul, a police officer, who only gave his last name Park, said.

Chung was first found dead on the ground by his female secretary, Park said

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6861368%255E1702,00.html

[blm]

1. Better check his connections to the BFEE via Rev. Moon.

Bush body count?

[Octafish]

9. Moon Succeeds where Others Failed — NK

Is it funny how the BFEE and Moon can do SO much bidness with the commie madmen? Freepers on Moon & Hyundai:

The Story You Won't Read in the Washington Times: Sun Myung Moon Does Business With Axis of Evil

Moon agent whitewashes North Korea: "There's a nine-hole golf course in the city, as well as a driving range."



Setting Up Shop in N. Korea: Car Firm Plunges In

Asia: Company linked to Sun Myung Moon's church is to open an assembly plant in April.

By BARBARA DEMICK
TIMES STAFF WRITER

March 28 2002

SEOUL --At first glance, there couldn't be a more improbable business proposition than opening an automobile factory in North Korea, where hardly anybody owns a car or knows how to drive. Even more surprising is that the company making this investment is an affiliate of the Unification Church, headed by the thumpingly anti-communist Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Against all odds, Pyonghwa Motors next month is opening a $55-million auto assembly plant where there once were rice paddies in the western coastal city of Nampo. It is one of the largest private ventures in North Korea, a bastion of militant communism that only recently has cracked open its doors to foreign investment in a desperate quest for hard currency.
"This country was so closed that nobody, not God, not Buddha, could get in the last 50 years without a visa," Park Sang Kwon, the president of Pyonghwa Motors, said at a news conference Friday in Seoul, the South Korean capital, where the company is headquartered. "Nobody, even in my own company, believed it was possible to build an automobile in North Korea. Only I believed." Initially, the assembly line will turn out Fiat Sienas, a compact model, but Pyonghwa Motors hopes to develop its own model for the North Koreans.

The communist government, which also owns a stake in the company, has contracted to buy 1,000 cars in the first year. After that, the company hopes to sell vehicles in China, Russia and, if the political situation allows, South Korea. The plant has the potential to turn out 20,000 cars a year.

The communist government, which also owns a stake in the company, has contracted to buy 1,000 cars in the first year. After that, the company hopes to sell vehicles in China, Russia and, if the political situation allows, South Korea. The plant has the potential to turn out 20,000 cars a year.

http://www.usasurvival.org/moon-cars.shtml

[NashVegas]

12. I Don't Know About BFEE, but This is Interesting

A top story in my local paper this morning

University of Tennessee President John W. Shumaker accepted a $10,000 cash gift from the head of a company that did business with a Connecticut school while he was its president, a broadcast report revealed last night.

Shumaker says there's nothing improper in the gift.

Citing a court deposition Shumaker gave before his divorce trial last spring, WTVF-NewsChannel 5 of Nashville reported that Shumaker received the money from the chairman of Hyundai Corp. in 1995 or 1996.

http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/03/08/37174008.shtml?Element_ID=37174008


More poking around on Chung, though, shows some flakey North Korean stuff. No idea whether the UT guy got the 10k from the newly dead Chung or his dad, the former chairman.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. 12 th floor? huh?

Isn't that what Psyops recommends is 12th floor to ensure the proper result? The guy was on trial for collusion with high ranking gov't officials. Everyone gets up at 6 in the morning to jump out the window.

Truly odd.

[DemNoir]

3. In Fact

The majority of suicides are in the early morning

[dArKeR]

4. Had to get up about 5AM at home to get to the office by 5:30AM

Why do 'normal' people call the suicide hot line a few times, have a history of previous attempts, or do it in public but these Power Elite do it in private? Kelly, Baxter...

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[foo_bar]

6. I see normal people

Why do 'normal' people call the suicide hot line a few times, have a history of previous attempts

Because they don't kill themselves. People who are dead serious about suicide don't do it in a place they can be rescued. Nor do they call the Good Samaritans, nor do they make "attempts" that would prolong their agony.

[dArKeR]

5. I don't believe this man committed suicide because with his wealth and

power he could easily have had an appearance change operation and lived out his life happily someplace and still even travelled the world. For sure he would have access to S. and N. Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesian, Philippines...

[foo_bar]

7. ever heard of hara-kiri?

Lots of Koreans have.

[StevenLee]

8. If he was American/Canadian....

maybe...
but he had lost much of the respect he had gained... the North Korea scandel/ falling car sales all led to this... his "honour" was tarnished... there was no way he could hide anywhere... it is a burden many Koreans bare (the need of honour and respect)...
my mom is very upset....

[psychopomp]

10. Altering your face doesn't save it

Loss of respect is equivalent to death for many men in East Asian countries. It is a cultural difference.

[Nihil]

11. Must be the season for it

> Chung was first found dead on the ground by his female secretary, Park said

Where did this come from please?

The article referenced in .0 had two different options on the discovery:

"... We reached the scene at 5:55 am ... to find the body (of Chung Mong-Hun) through a Hyundai janitor"

"Chung's body was first found lying in a parking lot by a passerby"

... but neither referenced "his female secretary".


Interesting though:
"... Hyundai Asan executives and Chung's brother Chung Mong-Koo,
chairman of the country's biggest carmaker Hyundai Motor, were seen
walking around the scene of the suicide"

... looking for any items that Chung might have unwittingly brought
with him ? (Painkillers? Small knife? Sticky pads?)

[CO Liberal]

13. Guess He Never Forgave Himself for the Hyundai SCoupe......

:-)