If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

When the Uri party was defeated in by-elections held on 30 April 2005 losing every one of the 23 electoral districts. What’s more they label the democratic forces as being inept plotting to rise to power on the back of the nostalgia for the development-oriented dictatorships of the past. Roh's executive power was suspended pending a final decision by the Constitutional Court and Prime Minister Goh Kun ran the country as the Acting President.

This generation had been veterans of student protests against authoritarian rule and advocated a conciliatory approach towards North Korea even at the expense of good relations with the USA. Roh's pre-presidential political career was focused on human rights advocacy for student activists in South Korea. people in their thirties when the term was coined who had attended university in the 1980s and who were born in the 1960s).