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Article: Rival candidates clash over controversial video clip in last TV debate.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- December 17, 2007
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SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's presidential front-runner Lee Myung-bak came under pressure to quit the race in the final television debate on Sunday after the revelation of a controversial video clip rekindled suspicion he collaborated in a massive financial fraud in 2001.The nationally televised debate on economy, welfare, labor and science, held just three days before the vote, was expected to reflect Lee's strength as a former Hyundai CEO and Seoul mayor, but the policy contest instantly turned into a chorus of jeers from all the other candidates.Adding to the political chaos, President Roh Moo-hyun instructed his justice minister, prior to the ...