다음은 조선닷컴 http://www.chosun.com 에 있는 뉴시스의 기사입니다. 이 기사와 관련이 있는 워싱턴포스트의 영문기사를 이 기사 뒤에 올릴 것입니다. ------------------------------------------------------ 워싱턴=뉴시스 입력 : 2007.12.20 09:12 http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/12/20/2007122000352.html "입지전적 인물 대통령 당선"-워싱턴 포스트 건설회사의 보스였고 '불도저'라는 별명을 가진 이명박 후보가 19일 치러진 한국의 대선에서 압도적 표차로 새로운 대통령에 당선돼 유권자들이 바라던 친미국, 친기업정책을 추진할 것이라고 워싱턴 포스트가 19일 보도했다. 포스트지는 대통합민주신당의 정동영 후보가 패배를 인정한 뒤 이명박 당선자가 "나는 여러분들이 무엇을 원하는지 알고 있다"면서 "나는 국민여러분의 여망인 한국의 경제회생과 분열된 사회통합을 이뤄내겠다"고 한 당선후 첫 말을 인용해 보도하면서 이명박 후보의 승리 소식을 장문의 분석기사로 전했다. 신문은 이 당선자는 선거당일 바로 66회 생일을 맞아 그의 경쟁자와 두배나 되는 표차인 약 50%의 지지율로 승리를 이뤄냈다고 당선의 개인적인 의미도 전했다. 신문은 이 당선자는 그동안 한국민들의 열망인 경제부흥과 소득증대라는 공약을 내걸고 최초의 재계출신 후보라는 점을 살려 유권자들을 사로잡았다면서, 노무현 현 대통령 하에서 한국은 5% 이하라는 국민들이 보기에 더딘 경제성장을 해왔었다고 승리의 요인을 분석했다. 신문은 또 오랜 세월동안 재야인사였던 김대중, 노무현이라는 전직 대통령으로 인해 한국민들이 피로감을 느껴온 사실으로부터 도움을 받았다고 지적, 10년 동안의 국민들의 실망이 당선 이유중 하나라고 지적했다. 이 당선자는 심지어 지난주 표면위로 올라와 특별검사가 임명돼 당선후 약 2주 동안 조가가 이뤄질 부정혐의에도 불구하고 손쉽게 승리를 이뤄냈다고 신문은 지적하고 한 유권자가 "어떤 한국의 기업인인들 아무도 조사해서 깨끗한 사람은 없다"고 한 언급을 들면서 문제는 누가 한국을 더 부강하게 만드냐에 초점이 있었다고 분석했다. 이번 선거에서는 특히 북한이 이전과는 달리 이슈화하지 않았다고 북한의 이상스런 선거 무관심을 소개하고, 이것은 최근 6자회담 합의사항 대로 북한이 핵불능화에 나서고 한국으로부터 심각한 위협을 받지 않은 점이 이유라고 설명하고, 최근 여론조사에서 한국인의 단 3%만이 스탈리니스트 국가 북한을 주적으로 우려하고 있다는 분석을 들었다. 포스트지는 아울러 이명박 당선자의 자세한 성장 드라마를 소개하면서 입지전적인 인물의 등장은 곧 한국의 경제성장과 괘를 같이 한다고 지적했다. 우선 신문은 이 당선자가 일제강점기 시절 일본에서 태어났지만 해방후 한국으로 가족과 함께 돌아와 어려운 생활을 했으며, 7형제중 5번째인 그가 행상을 하는 어머니를 돕는 가운데에서도 고교 최우등 성적을 기록하는가 하면 대학시절 쓰레기를 치우며 공부한 입지전적인 인물임을 자세히 전했다. 또 지난 1065년 대학졸업후 직원이 단 90명이었던 현대건설에 입사, 27년 재직 후 퇴임할 때엔 무려 16만명이나 되는 엄청난 성장을 시킨 주역이라고 묘사하고, 서울 시장 재직시엔 한국의 대중교통을 업그레이드시키고 공원체계를 부활시키는 한편 도심 한가운데의 개울을 복원하기도 했다고 설명했다. 북한과의 관계에 대해 포스트지는 이 당선자가 선거유세중 가진 인터뷰에서 노무현 정부에서 이뤄진 북한에 대한 무조건적인 지원이 아닌 조건부 지원정책을 취할 것이라고 한 말을 전하면서, 그가 김정일 위원장이 평양의 정권변화에는 관심이 없으며, 중국이나 베트남처럼 개방의 길로 나올 경우 지원할 용의가 있다는 언급을 전했다. 신문은 그러나 이 당선자의 언급에도 불구하고 대북정책에 관해서는 실질적으로 커다란 차이가 없을 것이란 서방 외교관들의 언급을 함께 전하면서, 노무현 정부하에서 다소 냉냉해진 한미 관계는 보다 강화될 것임을 예상했다. 아울러 신문은 이 당선자가 7% 경제성장에 4만달러 국민소득, 세계 7위의 경제대국을 공약했지만 임기가 단 5년인 그가 어떻게 목표를 이룰지에 대한 자세한 언급은 없었다고 부연했다 --------------------------------------------------------- 다음은 워싱턴포스트 http://www.washingtonpost.com 에 있는 기사입니 다. -------------------------------------------------- In S. Korea, Lee Wins Landslide Victory By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, December 19, 2007; 8:32 AM SEOUL, Dec. 19 -- Lee Myung-bak, a former construction boss known as "the bulldozer," won a landslide victory Wednesday in South Korea's presidential election, promoting a brand of pro-American, pro-business politics that voters here were eager to buy. "I know what you want so well," Lee told the nation after his opponents, including Liberal Party candidate Chung Dong-young, had conceded. "I will revive Korea's economy at the bidding of the people. I will unify our society, which has been torn apart." The former mayor of Seoul, who celebrated his 66th birthday on election day, won about 50 percent of the vote, according to exit polls, nearly double the percentage of his closest competitor. He won easily despite persistent allegations of corporate corruption that surfaced again last weekend and led to the appointment on Monday of an independent prosecutor, whose investigation will hang over Lee's two-month transition to the presidency. Lee built his campaign around his own inspiring narrative of bootstrap prosperity. It's a rags-to-riches story with such box office appeal it has already been depicted in two dramas on South Korean television. His life story resonated because this is a rags-to-riches nation, destitute at the end of the Korean War but now the world's 13th-largest economy. The principal premise of Lee's campaign was that he alone had the right stuff to make South Korea even richer -- and fast. He promised to make it the world's seventh-largest economy within 10 years. He also promised to reduce taxes and raise incomes. That's precisely what South Korean voters wanted to hear, according to recent polls. About 60 percent of the public sees jobs and the economy as top priorities. "Lee has a proven track record showing that he is not only a good CEO but also has ability to run the government," said Ahn Jae Woo, 54, an insurance executive who voted for Lee early this morning before going Christmas shopping with his family in a Seoul mall. "No one is absolutely clean when you strip-search successful and wealthy businessman in Korea. This election is not about ethical issues; it's about who is really capable of making Korea prosperous." Unlike previous elections, North Korea was a nonissue in this one, largely because it has begun to disable its nuclear facilities and is no longer perceived by South Koreans as a serious threat. In a recent poll, only 3 percent of voters named their Stalinist neighbor as a primary concern. Analysts here said Lee's campaign was also helped by voter fatigue with almost 10 years of rule by Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, both of whom are longtime veterans of the country's dissident movement. Under Roh, economic growth declined to less than 5 percent, too slow for the economic aspirations of many South Koreans. Supporters are looking to Lee's business savvy to pep it up. He is the first corporate executive to be elected president. Not everything in Lee's personal narrative is inspiring. It includes a number of ethical hiccups, one of which surfaced in a video clip Sunday. The clip, from 2000, shows Lee delivering a speech in which he states that he founded a now much-investigated company that defrauded investors. Previously, he had denied any connection to the company. The clip prompted the National Assembly on Monday to appoint an independent prosecutor who must report before Lee is sworn on Feb. 25. The South Korean constitution protects a sitting president from prosecution for crimes other than treason. But it is unclear whether Lee would be immune to an indictment issued while he was president-elect. Lee's political momentum, though, was not significantly slowed by election-eve banner headlines about the investigation or by primetime rehashes of the corruption allegations. "Corruption combined with material prosperity is acceptable at this moment," said Kim Ki-jung, a professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul. "We can call the current mood the 'Korean jackpot dream.' " Voters here knew -- from the campaign, from the television dramas and from the candidate's self-laudatory autobiography, "This Is No Myth" -- that Lee has lived the jackpot dream. But he did not win great wealth easily. In a way that South Koreans find wonderfully exciting, he hustled and sweated for it. Neither of his parents graduated from grade school. He was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1941, at a time when Koreans were colonial subjects of imperial Japan. When liberation came in 1945, Lee's family came back to Korea, but the ship carrying home all their worldly goods sank. As the fifth of seven children, Lee grew up poor but smart. He helped his mother in a vegetable market while earning summa cum laude grades in high school. He put himself through college by working as a garbageman. He served four months in prison for leading student demonstrations against the then-dictatorial government, but soon found a corporate ladder to climb. While South Korea rose as an industrial power, Lee rose as an executive in Hyundai Construction and Engineering Co. When he started there in 1965, it had 90 employees; when he left as chairman after 27 years, it had more than 160,000, according to South Korean newspapers. Lee went into politics as a multimillionaire in the early 1990s, serving as a legislator from Seoul. He was later stripped of the seat due to a violation of election law. He had spent too much money to win reelection. After a year in Washington, where he was a visiting scholar at George Washington University, he returned to Seoul and was elected mayor in 2002. As mayor, he upgraded mass transportation, revived the park system and restored a stream in the heart of downtown. In an October interview with The Washington Post, Lee said that as president he would condition assistance to North Korea on political and economic reform, in contrast to what Lee's camp depicts as Roh's no-conditions approach. He also said that he was not interested in regime change in the north's capital, Pyongyang, and that he would like to help the government of Kim Jong Il follow the reform example of China and Vietnam. Western diplomats here say that despite Lee's rhetoric, he would probably bring no substantial change in South Korea's policy toward the North. They expect him to strengthen ties with the United States, which have chilled somewhat under Roh. Lee said he could increase economic growth to 7 percent a year and double per capita income to $40,000 within 10 years. He did not explain in any detail how he would accomplish that. As president, he can serve only one five-year term. Special correspondent Stella Kim contributed to this report.