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Kim Dae-jung

President of South Korea, 1998 to 2003

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A longtime dissident who survived a kidnapping and a death sentence, became president, launched the Sunshine Policy toward North Korea and won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize.

Kim Dae-jung sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly peace-first on war and peace, leaning institutional on institutions and leaning libertarian on liberty and authority.

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Where Kim Dae-jung sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Kim Dae-jung

Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer and Nobel laureate99%Malala Yousafzai Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate98%Andrei Sakharov Soviet physicist and dissident, 1921 to 198998%Immanuel Kant German philosopher, 1724 to 180498%J. Robert Oppenheimer American physicist, 1904 to 196798%Jean Chrétien Prime Minister of Canada, 1993 to 200397%Muhammad Yunus Bangladeshi economist and Nobel laureate97%Cyril Ramaphosa President of South Africa, 2018 to present97%

People furthest from Kim Dae-jung

Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 19459%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 194310%Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 195311%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)11%

Political views closest to Kim Dae-jung

GeorgismTaxes land and natural resources instead of labor, arguing that the value of land…98%Social market economyKeeps markets competitive but backs them with rules, social insurance and partnership…97%Civic republicanismValues citizen participation, civic virtue and freedom from domination, and often…95%Non-alignmentKeeps countries out of great-power blocs and military alliances.95%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: 대한민국 국가기록원, KOGL Type 1, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.