Married with a grown son and daughter, Roh lists his hobbies as mountain climbing and bowling.
Five years later as a sixth-grader Roh won his first election as student council president.
Its leader is Han Myung-sook, who served as prime minister under Roh in 2006-07.
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It was the first question that he got at the news conference with President Roh.
You know, President Bush and President Roh Moo-hyun aren't always in perfect sync on North Korea.
Roh, who ended his term in office in February 2008, has not been formally charged.
President Roh, also not a popular figure right now, pushed ahead despite his own domestic resistance.
London's Royal Opera House (ROH) has announced a new commitment to contemporary opera until 2020.
In October 2007 Mr Roh went to Pyongyang, against the advice of George Bush's White House.
This, though, would now presumably clash with Mr Roh's referendum, should it go ahead.
She also reported live from Seoul on the funeral of former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun.
Scores of Roh's supporters handed out yellow balloons, the color associated with Roh's political campaign.
In the past Mr Roh had argued that American troops should leave South Korea.
Although Mr Roh enjoys little public support, the outgoing parliament's decision to impeach him alienated voters.
On October 7th, the speaker of the National Assembly suggested that Mr Roh should quickly assent.
Roh was born on August 6, 1946 in Kimhae, near South Korea's second largest city of Busan.
Roh denied the allegations in a written statement submitted to the prosecution on Saturday, according to Yonhap.
President-elect Roh Moo-hyun is to be inaugurated in February, and Mr Koizumi is considering attending the ceremony.
The Bush administration has been increasingly upset at what it sees as Mr Roh's unhelpfully soft line.
At the end of the month the company will undertake a series of workshops at the ROH.
Roh and Kim opened formal talks Wednesday at the first summit between the divided countries in seven years.
In South Korea, President Roh Myu-hoon and his leftist Uri Party seemed to be heading toward electoral defeat.
As Mr Roh in retirement rode his bicycle round the streets, crowds of tourists would run after him.
When Roh graduated from Busan Commercial High School in 1966, he didn't have enough money to go to college.
Roh has left a gift for both peoples even if the Americans have been especially ungracious about unwrapping it.
Opinion in South Korea is notoriously fickle, as those who remember Roh Moo-hyun's upset victory in 2002 will attest.
Nor should Mr Roh let his efforts to ease tensions with the North jeopardise his country's ties with America.
NPR's Michael Sullivan, who's in Seoul, says that President Roh is likely "feeling burned" by North Korea's aggressive move.
Relations with North Korea and America, of course, will also test Mr Roh.
Officials and dignitaries gathered in Seoul's Kyungbok Palace to honor former President Roh Moo-Hyun, who committed suicide last week.
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