Closer to home, in Asia, President Kim Young Sam of South Korea, in office for less than half a year, has adopted iron-fisted anti-corruption measures that have received unprecedented support from the populace; and a string of scandals has toppled the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, once regarded as "eternally the ruling party."
鄰近的亞洲，上任不過半年的南韓大統領金泳三，正因鐵腕肅貪而獲得空前的民意支持；日本自民黨則已因貪瀆醜聞不斷而痛失「永久的執政黨」寶座。