Kim Young-sam, the former president of South Korea who replaced the last of the country’s military leaders and introduced a landmark reform aimed at transparency in financial transactions, died today. He was 87.

Mr. Kim, who was president from 1993 to 1998. The chief of Seoul National University Hospital - 'Oh Byung-hee' said he died of sepsis (blood infection) and heart failure. Mr. Kim was admitted with a fever on Friday. He had been treated for a series of strokes and pneumonia in recent years.

Mr. Kim served as president from 1993 to 1998, during which, two generals-turned-presidents were indicted on mutiny and treason charges stemming from a coup.

Kim pardoned the two convicted military strongmen - Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo - at the end of his term.

Mr. Kim was an outspoken critic of military dictators from the 1960s through the 1980s, was one of the “three Kims” — the others were former President Kim Dae-jung and former Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil — who played major roles, often relying on regional support from their home provinces, during South Korea’s turbulent transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Mr. Kim was born in 1927, a son of a rich anchovy fisherman on Geoje Island, off the southeast coast of South Korea, during a time when all of the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony. He was elected to Parliament at age 26 and developed a following as an opposition leader famed for his daring criticism of Park Chung-hee, who seized power in a coup in 1961 and tortured and imprisoned dissidents before his assassination in 1979.

May his 'Aluta' soul rest in peace. Amen

RIP to him

Oooooooohhhh RIP man

He was a nasty and fierce ruler....


His soul will only rest in Chaos....


The grandson is next...