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Ex-President Kim lays foundation for S. Korea-China ties: ambassador

November 23, 2015
This November 1995 file photo shows President Kim Young-sam (L) meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Osaka, Japan. Kim, who served as South Korea's president from 1993-1998, died at Seoul National University Hospital on Nov. 22, 2015, after being hospitalized due to a high fever. He was 88. Kim formally ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted a massive international bailout during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. (Yonhap)

This November 1995 file photo shows President Kim Young-sam (L) meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Osaka, Japan. Kim, who served as South Korea’s president from 1993-1998, died at Seoul National University Hospital on Nov. 22, 2015, after being hospitalized due to a high fever. He was 88. Kim formally ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted a massive international bailout during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. (Yonhap)

BEIJING (Yonhap) — A South Korean envoy mourned the death of former President Kim Young-sam on Monday, crediting him for laying the foundation for bilateral relations between Seoul and Beijing.

Former President Kim, who died of a blood infection and heart failure on Sunday at the age of 87, began his five-year presidency in 1993, a year after Seoul established formal diplomatic ties with Beijing.

Kim Jang-soo, the South Korean Ambassador to China, called the former president an important figure who “had laid the foundation stone for Korea-China relations.”

During Kim’s presidency, bilateral trade between South Korea and China quadrupled, the ambassador said.

Kim Jang-soo made the remarks after paying tribute to a memorial altar set up at the South Korean Embassy in Beijing.

As an iconic figure of South Korea’s pro-democracy movement, Kim Young-sam fought against military rulers for decades and laid the groundwork for a peaceful power transfer in a country that had been marked by military coups.

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