Editorial..

Another disgraced president..
검찰..the prosecution..
할꺼 같다..will likely..
심문하다..question him..
뇌물 스캔들..bribery scandal..
former chief executive..
I hope this is the beginning of the end for months-long probe into another first familiy..
It will depend on how Roh behaves during questioning..whether he comes forth to take all moral and political responsibility or engage in a legal game to minimize his personal damage..
They must go on to also look into influence-peddling suspicions regarding 아무개..if for no other purpose than having to do so again in five years time..
money totaling about 천원..
Whether or when he knew so is not important..
오랫동안의..longtime..
It is a mere smidgen compared with it..
We're afraid Roh might have similar thoughts-albeit subconsciously..
True, part of his curruption drama smacks of a political vendetta..
There can be a debate over the desirability of a former president remaining in the world of politics, but Roh's case shows one has to be impeccable to do so..
authoritarian vestiges..
He might have tried to fill the void with clean, reformative plitics, but he failed..
as a courtesy to the former chief executive.
This might be a ploy to prevent a possible backlash caused by popular sympathy..
a compromise between old and new powers to largely maintain the status quo..
if needed..
with equal intensity..
Roh should really abandon himself to restore that democracy, a part of which is his own legacy..

Better financial regulation..(This is no time for the consumptive turf battle..)
한국 금융 당국..Korea's financial authorities..
with inconsistent, incoherent responses..
This should come as no surprise..
It comes as a relief that the government appears set to tackle the long-pending issue if streamlining financial regulation..
work out the best system for all involved..
The global trend is going in the same direction..
considering its failure to do so in the run-up to the 1997-1998 financil crisis.
In whatever shape the revamped regulatory system may end up, what's at stake is how to prevent the conflicts of interests in the nation's finacila industry, a typical revolving door system, in which former regulators are turned into executives of firms they regulated.

From the Korean Times..