Talk:Gim Yeongsam

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Before revision: He had the nickname Sa-gwa (사과), meaning Apple or Apology, because he had to apologize to the people several times: for the SungSoo Bridge collapse, for the sinking of a ship, for the crash of an airliner, for the behaviour of his son and after his presidency for the Asian financial crisis.

This seems to me like blatant POV. I don't remember Sa-gwa becoming a well-known nickname for Kim. Such disasters are worth mentioning, as they played a large part in hurting Kim Young-sam's government (and they were still milked by his rival Kim Dae-jung's supporters long after Kim Young-sam's presidency ended), but ascribing a little-known, obviously negative nickname in a short encyclopaedia article is dubious at best. --Iceager 09:16, 16 May 2004 (UTC)