Stars align for South Korea's president-elect Moon
Seoul
SOUTH Korean human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in never felt comfortable being at the Blue House when he was a top aide to the president. He quit in 2004, a year into the job, and went on a long hike in the Himalayas.
Although he would return to the presidential office a month later, the liberal idealist, who once dreamed of opening a pro-bono law practice in a Korea reunified with the North, says he has always been uneasy in the limelight.
Now he has the eyes of 51 million South Koreans on him after he declared victory in South Kor…
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