A golf outing gone bad among a bunch of cronies has toppled South Korea’s strongest prime minister in its democratic history. No time to post but it’s an important story about the growing public intolerance of offiicial corruption as democracy emerges in this admirable country.

I feel there are echoes of this same phenomenon in Thailand, in Philippines, in Hong Kong, and I am going to go out on a limb here, perhaps soon in Singapore. In the late 1990s, the middle class rage was confined to big messy third-worldy hulks of states like Indonesia. Now, the prim, orderly Asian tigers are being roused to democratic action.

One news account here and I will try to find some Korean blogger updates later as time permits.