"People who love Roh Moo-hyun" ("nosamo" in Korean), members of the president-elect's cyberspace supporters club danced in celebration at his narrow election victory in downtown Seoul until the wee hours of Friday morning. Members bombarded the Nosamo Web site with congratulatory messages, savoring the reopening of their homepage a month after it was ordered closed by the National Election Commission. The online fan club, the first of its kind for a politician, praised Roh's courage for sacrificing the Jongno district of Seoul, where he was elected in an earlier by-election, to run in the Busan district, the power base of the rival Grand National Party (GNP). Defeated in 1992 in his campaign for a parliamentary seat and again in 1995 in his bid to become Mayor of Busan, Roh made his political comeback in 1998 in the Jongno by-election but returned to Busan in 2000 to lose for a third time. The online group is said to have made great contributions to the creation of a new political culture here in this country where regionalism, age and personal background reign in the political arena. Currently, the group is mulling over its graceful exit from the politician scene and its transformation into a facilitator of continued political reform and people's welfare advancement.