To be remembered by future generations, great people, it may be said, need a historical moment that thrusts them into the history books.
Kim Dae-jung, the former South Korean president who died on Aug. 18 from complications from pneumonia, never really had that moment: He did not beat the incumbent dictator Park Chung-hee in the 1971 election. It was not his resistance that broke the will of the Chun Doo-hwan dictatorship. He did not win the first democratic presidential election in 1987. His bear-hug with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il did not bring reunification.
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