진짜로 부패한 사람은 부패에 대한 비난에도 잘 견뎌낸다.
하지만 노무현 전 대통령은 잘못을 저질렀다는 사실을 견딜 수 없었던 개혁가였다.
범죄자들은 범죄와 함께 살아가지만 그는 결국 정직한 사람이었다.
"People who are really corrupt can live with it, but Roh was a crusader who could not deal with the fact that he had done something wrong," said Michael Breen, author of The Koreans. "Criminals live with their criminality – he was an honest man."
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