South Koreans view Lee Myung-bak, set to be elected president on Wednesday, as tried - if not exactly trusted.

As president and chief executive of Hyundai Construction during the 1970s and 1980s, he built many of the roads and bridges that helped transport South Korea from a poor agrarian country to the world's 11th largest economy. His role - and the zeal with which he approached it - earned him the nickname "The Bulldozer".