Roh Moo-hyun, a self-taught man

In December 2002, south Korea's general election was announced, and Roh Moo-hyun, the candidate of the "New Millennium Democratic Party", was elected president. At the time, the leaders of almost every country in the world knew nothing about the new president because he was not like his predecessor, President Kim Dae-jung, who had been a prominent figure in South Korean politics for decades. He had no previous senior positions or higher education in the United States or the United Kingdom, as the average South Korean leader did. He hadn't even stepped out of the country. Even South Koreans, when talking about their new president, Roh Moo-hyun, will sigh from the bottom of their hearts: the rich and tortuous life experience of the new president who has emerged from the bottom of the people will certainly be able to lead South Korea to prosperity and strength, and will certainly be able to make South Korea refreshing in front of the world. "Things in the past are always so beautiful." This is a sentence roh Moo-hyun wrote during his exam in 1975. Years later, Roh Moo-hyun still burst into tears every time he thinks of this sentence. Roh Moo-hyun was born on August 6, 1946 in a remote and impoverished village in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang-do, South Korea, where his father, Roh Jung-seok, was a "poor of the poor." This went on for a long time, and by the time Mr. Roh was in junior high school, his family was so poor that he couldn't afford to pay his tuition, so much so that his mother begged the school to allow the school to default on the tuition and wait for the family's peach trees to be sold. After graduating from junior high school, his family still did not improve, and he had to apply for busan Commercial High School, where he could get a scholarship, instead of attending a regular high school. During high school, in order to solve the problem of accommodation, he sometimes had to board relatives and classmates, and sometimes even simply slept on the floor of the classroom. After graduating from high school, it became the highest degree Roh Moo-hyun obtained. But poverty did not overwhelm Roh Moo-hyun's brilliant talents. It is said that at the age of 6, he memorized the "Thousand Character Text" taught to him by his father, so he was praised by his neighbors as a prodigy and a genius. In junior high school, most of his homework was "excellent" and "good".

Roh Moo-hyun told a story of his own in the process of running for president: when he was in elementary school, he plucked up the courage to run for the president of the school's student council, which was not optimistic, but he compared himself to "little pepper" in his campaign speech, saying that "small pepper is hotter". As a result, his self-confidence, determination and stubbornness infected his classmates, and he was actually elected as the president of the student council as a "dark horse". His confident, stubborn, and indomitable character is reflected in his experience as a lawyer. Roh Moo-hyun began his social life as an adult in 1966 at a fishing net company called Shanhai Industries. But by the end of the month, he found that his salary was not even enough for accommodation. However, he didn't care very much, he just wanted to earn a few months to buy law books to apply for the lawyer. When he earned enough 6,000 won and used the money to buy a law book and a guitar, he still remembers the disappointed expression of his mother, who was expecting him to find a good job to support his family. But he comforted his mother and said, I will be able to be a lawyer. Together with his second brother, he built a thatched hut on the hill opposite the village, immersed himself in learning legal knowledge and preparing to apply for a lawyer's examination. The father named the grass house "Mo Yu Tang" and hoped that his son would be difficult and difficult here. He dug a deep pit in the summer and studied in the cool environment inside, while in the winter he went into the bed and read hard. But because he didn't have a professional foundation in this area, he failed several exams. Hindered by his livelihood, Roh Moo-hyun began his military career in 1968. After three years in the army, he never gave up the study of legal knowledge, and the first thing he did when he left the army in 1971 and returned to his hometown was to take the coveted bar exam. Although he took the exam for two consecutive years, he lost the results of the peach tree at home and then paid for it after selling. After graduating from junior high school, his family still did not improve, and he had to apply for busan Commercial High School, where he could get a scholarship, instead of attending a regular high school. During high school, in order to solve the problem of accommodation, he sometimes had to board relatives and classmates, and sometimes even simply slept on the floor of the classroom. After graduating from high school, it became the highest degree Roh Moo-hyun obtained. But poverty did not overwhelm Roh Moo-hyun's brilliant talents. It is said that at the age of 6, he memorized the "Thousand Character Text" taught to him by his father, so he was praised by his neighbors as a prodigy and a genius. In junior high school, most of his homework was "excellent" and "good".

Roh Moo-hyun told a story of his own in the process of running for president: when he was in elementary school, he plucked up the courage to run for the president of the school's student council, which was not optimistic, but he compared himself to "little pepper" in his campaign speech, saying that "small pepper is hotter". As a result, his self-confidence, determination and stubbornness infected his classmates, and he was actually elected as the president of the student council as a "dark horse". His confident, stubborn, and indomitable character is reflected in his experience as a lawyer. Roh Moo-hyun began his social life as an adult in 1966 at a fishing net company called Shanhai Industries. But by the end of the month, he found that his salary was not even enough for accommodation. However, he didn't care very much, he just wanted to earn a few months to buy law books to apply for the lawyer. When he earned enough 6,000 won and used the money to buy a law book and a guitar, he still remembers the disappointed expression of his mother, who was expecting him to find a good job to support his family. But he comforted his mother and said, I will be able to be a lawyer. Together with his second brother, he built a thatched hut on the hill opposite the village, immersed himself in learning legal knowledge and preparing to apply for a lawyer's examination. The father named the grass house "Mo Yu Tang" and hoped that his son would be difficult and difficult here. He dug a deep pit in the summer and studied in the cool environment inside, while in the winter he went into the bed and read hard. But because he didn't have a professional foundation in this area, he failed several exams. Hindered by his livelihood, Roh Moo-hyun began his military career in 1968. After three years in the army, he never gave up the study of legal knowledge, and the first thing he did when he left the army in 1971 and returned to his hometown was to take the coveted bar exam. Although he lost two consecutive years of exams