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[petethebrick]

Just on the off chance.
Does anyone know where I could find out the official salary of korean Presidents back to Park Chun Hee. Can't seem to find out anywhere.
Thanks!

[Cheonmunka]

If your attempts are to find out actual wealth, salaries won't decide that. Presidents in Korea and many other places besides use their influence to pamper friends' and family members' bank accounts.

Pressie Noh went from 400 million won in assets when campaigning, as all candidates had to state their liquid and non-liquid assets, then six months later into the presidency he lent his friend 십억 (one million US dollars = then) as a 'personal loan.'
That was a bit of news in the paper one day. It was only a problem because auditing investigators wanted to find out how a bankrupt got his hands on big money so quickly.

There's something here about Noh's monthly salary in USD's 우리나라 노무현 대통령의 월급은 1만7700달러로 헤이그룹은 파악했다 and has been sourced eleswhere as 10 million won p/mnth.

Hard to find out, for me, about Park. Here are some photos though and might lead to some more info for you.
http://blog.daum.net/chfhd9331/15377032 or this http://blog.theple.com/syp1058/3216.html something about him going to pay the bill and having only 100 000 won in his pocket.

[blackjack]

Here it says 209 million won ($223,000)

http://www.korea.net/News/news/newsView.asp?serial_no=20080104023&part=102&SearchDay=

From CNN it says he is donating it to the poor

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/31/south.korea.salary/index.html

In the same article it also says that he is giving away all his money to the poor 30 billion won apart from a retirement house in seoul

[petethebrick]

Thanks for replies guys.
It's only their official salaries I'm trying to find. I realise calculating their total income would be nigh impossible. I'm trying to gather data on a few differen countries. It's hilarious what some of the official salaries are listed at in countries like indonesia etc.
Thanks again