Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, statesman and activist who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. The Nobel Peace Prize 2000, announced October 13, 2000. Kim Dae-jung, “for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular”. Kim Dae-jung: born 1924, Mokpo, Korea (now South Korea). Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).