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President Roh Moo-hyun, whose policy was called into question by a liberal civic group, launches a counterattack from the podium, calling his critics "inflexible." On the chalkboard behind him are written the progressive policies he thinks his government has carried out: an increase in the welfare budget, the regaining of wartime control over the South Korean military from the U.S., and the rooting out of cozy relations between politicians and Korea’s major conglomerates.

But listeners do not agree with his assertions, sarcastically asking in the back of their mind, "Did he accept the U.S. military’s ’strategic flexibility’ reorganization plan and abandon the investigation into corruption at Samsung because he is so ‘flexible?’ "