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Article: BBK video clip causes uproar with three days remaining in presidential race.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- December 17, 2007
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SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- A video clip showing an opposition party front-runner admitting to establishing an investment firm that illegally manipulated stocks, is causing an uproar with just three days remaining in the presidential race, political observers said Sunday.The edited clip released by the pro-government United New Democratic Party (UNDP), shows Lee Myung-bak, the front-running candidate of the conservative Grand National Paryu explaining that he set up the BBK asset management firm in January 2000. He also said that he received preliminary approval from government regulators for a cyber securities firm to support BBK operations.The ...