Good cheer abounds and speeches for the TV cameras promise victories to come.
Not so the ruling Democratic Liberal Party's recent one-day congress. Many members didn't even bother to show up, including outgoing party chairman Lee Choon Koo. Having been forced to take the blame for the DLP's humiliation in the June local elections, he had evidently decided he had much better things to do. It should have been an occasion to build on past achievements. Instead, much time was spent undoing some of Kim's own party reforms.