Prof Gillespie, who resigned as the university's principal in December, was said to have had an "overbearing leadership style" and a dislike of potentially awkward confrontations or questioning.

But periodically, there are other emotionally charged, highly competitive, and intensely simmering clashes; often taking root between simultaneous contenders, bad-blooded division foes or closely situated fan bases sharing a mutual dislike.

Beyond Seongnam’s working-class neighborhoods, Lee has provoked in many an equally intense dislike — a fact that cannot be explained by his policies alone.

California employers may dislike the new law on independent contractors, but they’re devising a host of strategies to comply.

But many teachers in the state disliked the more regimented approach, and when the funding ended, districts largely transitioned back to the whole language approach.