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=President's Death: Suicide =  //How do people think about Roh Moo Hyun's suicide?//

Preface: Watching the news on TV on May 23rd 2009, I heard that the former president of South Korea, Roh Moo Hyun has committed suicide. I always liked him because he made great and effective changes to improve South Korea. Roh Moo Hyun was the 16th president of South Korea. After watching the news, I always wondered how people think about Roh Moo Hyun’s death, which was suicide. Therefore, I did a research on this. For my first genre, I wrote an essay showing what had happened and how people think about the death. For my second genre, I made a newspaper, similar to the ones I saw on the streets. I wrote what happened and wrote some interviews showing how people think towards it. Lastly for my third genre, I made a short video of a newscast. I said the same things that I had written on my newspaper article. These genres all combine to answer the key question, which was ‘How do people think about Roh Moo Hyun’s death?' 

 Genre 1 Introduction : My genre number 1 was just a simple research paper to answer my key question.This genre helped me explain my topic because I wrote a lot of facts in it that I got from the internet. By reading this research paper people can learn and also see what others think about a certain topic. Some characteristics of my genre 1 are:
 * Shows a event that have happened in the past
 * Teaches the readers about Roh Moo Hyun and what he did
 * Writing with a formal and teaching voice
 * Has a main idea that the whole writing focuses on

Genre 1: Have you ever heard about Korean president’s suicide? People sometimes make unintelligent decisions s <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">uch as <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;"> committing suicide. Suicide has a definition of deliberately killing hi <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">ms <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">elf or herse <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">lf <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">caused by an issue or a great amount of stress. Ex-president of Korea, Roh-Moo Hyun committed suicide because of a financial issue. He had suffered from a very long scandal, and decided to commit suicide after few months. All of the citizens of Korea have heard about this issue. When they heard about this issue, some would have wondered why would a president suicide and others were c <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 108%;">oncerned about it. A lot of rumors had risen about why, which is confusing most of us, the citizens. Everyone think differently about why ex-president of Korea, Roh-Moo Hyun had committed suicide. <span style="font-family: 바탕;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Minority of citizens of Korea believes that Roh Moo Hyun committed suicide because of his imperfect childhood and glum time of election. Roh Moo Hyun was born<span style="font-family: 바탕;"> on August 6th, 1946 in a small city in Korea called Gimhae. His house at the moment wasn’t in a very high-class community because they were poor. Roh Moo Hyun didn’t get a lot of outside school academic help, and had to study on his own. Having an amazing childhood is very important, however Roh Moo Hyun didn’t have the best childhood. Some people argue that because of the deprived childhood of Roh Moo Hyun, he had suffered and decided to committed suicide. This idea arose and soon many people start to believe that it was just because of suffrage from his childhood and time of elections. After passing the test for law school, he studied hard to get into the election for South Korea president. (Roh Moo-Hyun, Wikipedia) Roh Moo Hyun finally became a politician dreaming of becoming a president. However, while every other candidate had successful advertising and supporters, Roh Moo Hyun had a difficult time during the election because he didn’t have enough supporters. (Roh Moo-Hyun, Wikipedia.) Even though people thought he would never become the president, with breaking everyone’s expectation, he had become the president and made changes to improve South Korea in many ways. Fans of Roh Moo Hyun argue that his suicide was just because of his difficult childhood and time of election. This was the rumors and thoughts why fans think Roh-Moo Hyun had to commit suicide. Since the beginning of his life until the miserable time of elections, is one reason why minority of people, mainly Roh Moo Hyun’s fans, assumes that Roh Moo Hyun committed suicide.

Majority of people believe that dishonesty and bribery was they main reason why Roh Moo Hyun had committed suicide. During Roh Moo Hyun’s time of president, he had a lot of issues concerning about helping North Korea. (Obitury: Roh Moo-Hyun, BBC NEWS) Many people in Korea protested because they thought that it would be waste of money for no benefit. However, Roh Moo Hyun stood up regardless of the dissatisfaction and still did what he wanted and had to do. As a result, North Korea started to stop threatening us about nuclear weapons, and Roh Moo Hyun became very popular for being an outstanding political leader. This was the best time of his life. In his suicide note, he wrote everything about his hard time and he said that during his time of president, he felt the most successful. (Obitury: Roh Moo-Hyun, BBC NEWS) After all of his rigid work as a president, it was finally his time to forgo his place. At that time, he had an issue facing him. A friend of Roh-Moo Hyun got caught and accused for bribing him. The citizens of Korea were all shocked and amazed when they first faced this issue. They were shocked how a president lied and didn’t follow the laws of Korea. People respected him but it was a very horrific for a president to do. Also the issue got superior because the president went against the laws. Few months later, Roh Moo-Hyun had to stand in court in order to dispute that he didn’t get the bribery. However, it only got worse because of dishonesty, which wasn’t the best way to stand out for an argument. The family of Roh Moo-Hyun got accused and the truth came out to be known that Roh-Moo Hyun and his wife had received bribery. This had disappointed many citizens of Korea and also hurt them because some of them couldn’t resist the shock, and committed suicide. (Despair Overwhelmed Former South Korean Leader Embroiled in Scandal, Choe Sang-Hun) Many people believe that because of the stress and pressure that came from people’s malevolence comments was why Roh Moo Hyun committed suicide.

In conclusion, Roh-Moo Hyun had struggled because of the whole scandal about bribery and financial issue also because of the poor childhood and time before he became the president, according to citizens of Korea. The stress of all of these had lead to a very heartbreaking issue, the act of suicide by Roh-Moo Hyun. It has caused to an increase of number of people getting melancholia or depression. Being a great leader, Roh-Moo Hyun was recognized by all the citizens, and got a lot of people’s love. It is remarkable that Roh-Moo Hyun was a great leader, however had disappointed many people because of making a dreadful decision. <span style="font-family: 바탕;">

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 144%;">Work Cited: <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%;">"Obituary: Roh Moo-hyun." //BBC News// n. pag. Web. 17 Sep 2009. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2535143.stm>. "Roh Moo-hyun, Ex-President of South Korea, Kills Himself ." //New York Times// n. pag. Web. 17 Sep 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/world/asia/23korea.html>. "Roh Moo-hyun." //New York Times// n. pag. Web. 17 Sep 2009. <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/r/roh_moo_hyun/index.html>. "Roh Moo-hyun." //Wikipedia// (2009): n. pag. Web. 17 Sep 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roh_Moo-hyun>.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Genre 2 <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">My genre number 2 is a 4 pages newspaper. This genre helped me explain my topic because here I was able to show what happened. I was able to catch the reader's eyes by showing the story of what happened. Some characteristics of my genre 2 are: <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Able to show the readers detailed situations
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Able to show pictures of what happened before
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Able to catch the reader's eyes by having a voice of news reporter
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Many people have access to this newspaper.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Genre 2:

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 200%;">// Work Cited : // <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">// Roh Moo-hyun, Former South Korean President, Kills Himself //. Kwang Tae Kim. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/22/roh-moohyun-former-south-_n_206989.html>. //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">고 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">노무현 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">전 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">대통령 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">유서 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">내용 //. Naver. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://blog.naver.com/hotsbug/40089942965>. <span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 80%;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%;">//<span style="font-family: 바탕;">노무현 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">전대통령 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">서거 //. Chosun. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://srchdb1.chosun.com/pdf/i_service/index_new.jsp?Y=2009&M=05&D=24>. <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 바탕;"> <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">선배님 ////, ////<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">당신은 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">우리의 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">영원한 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">대통령이십니다 //. Ohmynews. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://blog.ohmynews.com/taijiview/159342>. //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">노 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">전 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">대통령 ////, ////<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">국민장으로 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">해서는 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">안 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕; font-size: 10pt;">된다 //. Joins. Web. <http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?ctg=&Total_ID=3624537>. <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%;">//<span style="font-family: 바탕;">서거 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">이틀째 ...// //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">점점 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">더 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">길어지는 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">애도행렬 //. Ohmynews. Web. <http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?cntn_cd=A0001138567&cmpt_cd=A0267> //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">바람이 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">불면 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">당신이 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">오신 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">것으로 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">알겠습니다 //. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://www.vop.co.kr/2009/07/10/A00000259541.html>. <span style="font-family: 바탕;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Genre 3 <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">My genre number 3 is a newscast movie on the day of Roh Moo Hyun's death. This genre helped me explain my topic because I showed what I wrote in a easier way. I showed some clips from the internet to entice the watchers. Some characteristics of my genre 3 are:
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">No need to read anything, just listen
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Watchers will have fun while learning from the video
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holds attention of the watchers til the end
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Make people want to learn more about this topic

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Genre 3 : media type="youtube" key="UnreKUYCXlk" height="340" width="560"

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Work Cited: <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> //Roh Moo Hyun dies in apparent suicide 23/May-14:00//. Youtube.com. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luXSSl3d9aM&feature=related>. //Former S. Korean President Commits Suicide//. Youtube.com. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUx6sXWrLEw&NR=1&feature=fvwp>. //Picture of the Day: Roh Moo-hyun’s Childhood Home Opens to the Public//. Web. 26 Oct. 2009. <http://rokdrop.com/2009/09/23/picture-of-the-day-roh-moo-hyuns-childhood-home-opens-to-the-public/>. //[////<span style="font-family: 바탕;">노컷 TV]CBS////<span style="font-family: 바탕;">노컷뉴스 -05////<span style="font-family: 바탕;">월 29////<span style="font-family: 바탕;">일 // //<span style="font-family: 바탕;">방송 //. Youtube.com. Web. 26 Oct. 2009.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jq8tJuZQ> //Former President Roh Moo-hyun's Funeral Held In Seoul//. Zimbio.com. Web. 26 Oct. 2009.<http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/EvXHiJH1Fct/Former+President+Roh+Moo+hyun+Funeral+Held/-D_OOWAB-8s>

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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Epilogue <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">From this project, I learned many things. First of all I learned more about Roh Moo Hyun, and how people thought about his death. When I first saw the news, I was pretty shocked but I was wondering what other people of Korea would think. I was really unsure about what had happened before but now, I am very certain. I know exactly why Roh Moo Hyun committed suicide. From researching I also found many interesting things. My perspective towards this topic has changed because at the beginning, I thought Roh Moo Hyun was not a great leader and did nothing to improve Korea. However, after researching more about him, I have found out that he was a great leader. I hope that people will enjoy my genres and I hope that people will learn how different people think towards Roh Moo Hyun. I hope they will think that he was great.