And it has already had a visible impact on the country's political atmosphere.

In the current political atmosphere, that may be beside the point.

"But the most important change that could happen is a more open political atmosphere - something to give us the space to breathe."

The political atmosphere has also presented some problems for the magazine.

"The whole political atmosphere has changed, and people don't know what's going to happen," he said.

Now the process continues in a less stable political atmosphere.

Tonight the political atmosphere in this country seemed to have changed extraordinarily from just a month ago.

And the political atmosphere now, he says, is more tense than before.

The similarities between the political atmosphere now and in 1991 are not lost on anyone.

With the coming of the 1990s the political atmosphere in Korea changed.