TIME.com: Charity, D.C. Style -- Mar. 28, 2005: "Charity, D.C. Style
Are some nonprofits really in the lobbying business? TIME looks at a U.S.-Korea group now under scrutiny
By MASSIMO CALABRESI AND KAREN TUMULTY
Sunday, Mar. 20, 2005
You might have thought KimSeung-Youn had everything a business titan could want. He sat atop his family's multibillion-dollar Hanwha Group, one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, running an empire of chemical, finance and energy firms and a chain of resorts. He had his own baseball team, the Hanwha Eagles, and loved to sip soju, a fiery libation, as he and his employees watched them play. But apparently one thing was missing: international prestige. So Kim turned to Republican heavyweight Tom DeLay's former chief of staff, Ed Buckham, in early 2001 to develop what Buckham's lobbying firm described as a 'work plan.' The goal, according to the first sentence of that five-page proposal, was nothing short of establishing 'Chairman Kim as the leading Korean business statesman in U.S.-Korean relations"
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