Kim Young-Sam description

South Korean politician Kim Young-Sam was a moderate opposition leader for 30 years and was president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998.

Born in 1927, Kim Young-Sam was elected to South Koreas National Assembly in 1954. He was expelled from Parliament in 1979, and later spent three years under house arrest. Elected president in 1992, Kim enacted reforms to curb political corruption, though his popularity diminished with the economic problems that followed the Asian financial crisis in 1997. He died on November 22, 2015, at Seoul National University Hospital.