The president of South Korea is jokingly called one of the most dangerous positions in the world by netizens. This conclusion is actually not without basis. Because since the founding of the Republic of Korea, there has never been a president who has been able to escape unscathed.
Even a president as beloved as Roh Moo-hyun chose to commit suicide after he stepped down due to a bribery scandal involving his daughter.
Therefore, after Moon Jae-in resigned, his actions attracted great attention from the media. In fact, everyone was not interested in his private life, but they were all concerned about whether he could get rid of the "Cheong Wa Dae curse."
What is Moon Jae-in’s life like after returning to his hometown? Will he, like his good friend Roh Moo-hyun, have children that make people worried?
Former President Today’s Farmer
A few months ago, Moon Jae-in’s daughter Moon Da-hye posted a text on Twitter.
In a tweet, she wrote in an angry tone: Is this a so-called rally? We were trapped at home like mice, listening to those abusive words every day. I didn’t want to endure it anymore. I wanted to learn to protect my parents by myself.
What Moon Da-hye is talking about refers to South Korean conservative groups holding protest rallies near Moon Jae-in’s home. These groups often set up loudspeakers at Moon Jae-in’s residence, and then shout slogans insulting Moon Jae-in and his family. . As the daughter of the former president of South Korea, Moon Da Hye has also suffered a lot of verbal attacks.
However, Moon Jae-in did not pay much attention to these verbal attacks. After the 69-year-old Moon Jae-in "went home", he no longer insisted on dyeing his hair black and did not modify his beard.
He wears ordinary clothes and often walks his cats and dogs alone in the countryside, growing vegetables, looking like a farmer. It can be seen that Moon Jae-in enjoys this pastoral life.
Some people say that Moon Jae-in is deliberately showing weakness to the current President Yin Xiyue, expressing his determination to no longer interfere in politics, so that Yin Xiyue will not let others investigate him. Some people also say that Moon Jae-in really wants to live a leisurely life.
No matter what Moon Jae-in thinks, there is no denying the fact that Moon Jae-in is one of the most successful presidents in South Korean history. He has done many admirable things to change the country. Even to the end of his term as president, he worked hard for the development of South Korea.
He was born as a refugee but was quite rebellious.
Moon Jae-in’s hometown is in today’s North Korea. After the Korean War broke out, his parents became refugees and then came to Busan on a US military warship. In 1953, Moon Jae-in was born in Busan.
As a refugee child, Moon Jae-in has lived a life without enough food and clothing since he was a child. In Moon Jae-in’s childhood memories, church was a place he often went to. In fact, Moon Jae-in’s family is not religious, but because there is free food in the church.
Perhaps because he suffered from hunger and cold since childhood, Moon Jae-in worked particularly hard when he was studying, hoping to use culture to change his destiny. However, during his college years, he was often arrested because of his enthusiasm for student movements and was dismissed from the school many times.
Because he had witnessed social injustice since he was a child, Moon Jae-in once wanted to become a judge after graduating from college. He also worked hard to pass the judicial examination . However, because he was arrested many times, his application for a judge was repeatedly rejected.
For those in the judicial profession, if they cannot become judges, there are other professions such as lawyers to choose from. However, Moon Jae-in did not take the usual path. Shortly after graduation, his friends were surprised to find that he had entered the special forces.
After retiring from the army, Moon Jae-in met Roh Moo-hyun, and the two became good partners in career and life. Under the influence of Roh Moo-hyun, Moon Jae-in rekindled the passion of his student days, and he also became a human rights lawyer.
In the 1980s, the two actively campaigned for the student movement and defended those students who were arrested. After this series of political movements, Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in also became celebrities in South Korea.
For the sake of his friends, he did not like to participate in politics and decided to run for president.
In the late 1980s, Roh Moo-hyun entered the political arena, while Moon Jae-in stayed in Busan to engage in legal work and did some behind-the-scenes work for Roh Moo-hyun. With the support of Moon Jae-in and others, Roh Moo-hyun rose strongly in the political arena and even became the president of South Korea.
After becoming president, Roh Moo-hyun did not forget his original ideals. He let Moon Jae-in work in the presidential palace and became Roh Moo-hyun's chief secretary. Together, the two implemented a policy of cracking down on consortiums and tilted some social interests toward the civilian class.
Roh Moo-hyun's policies have gained support among Korean people, and conflicts in Korean society have eased. After seeing that Roh Moo-hyun's policies were effective, Moon Jae-in resigned from the government for a time.
However, these policies that touched the interests of financial groups were strongly resisted by interest groups, and Roh Moo-hyun himself was attacked by the opposition party.
In order to help his friend Roh Moo-hyun, Moon Jae-in returned to the presidential palace again and helped Roh Moo-hyun safely pass the presidential term. However, what Moon Jae-in did not expect was that after Roh Moo-hyun left, political opponents used the bribery incident of Roh Moo-hyun's wife and children to launch a political attack on Roh Moo-hyun himself.
Unable to bear these political attacks, Roh Moo-hyun chose to end his life in May 2009. When he received the news of Roh Moo-hyun's death, Moon Jae-in couldn't believe it. But after he arrived at the spot where Roh Moo-hyun jumped off the cliff, he fell into deep pain and reflection.
However, at the press conference, Moon Jae-in calmly announced the news of his friend's death. However, he made an important decision at this time. He wanted to run for president. He not only wanted to pass on the legacy of his friend Roh Moo-hyun. If we go on, those who framed Roh Moo-hyun will have to pay the price.
After years of preparation, Moon Jae-in launched an attack on the presidency. In the 2012 general election, Moon Jae-in lost to Park Geun-hye by a narrow margin. But a few years later, the opportunity came again.
In 2017, Park Geun-hye was impeached and stepped down due to the "girlfriend scandal". Moon Jae-in seized the opportunity to run for office again and was successfully elected as the President of South Korea.
After being elected, he gave the country a new look
Soon after Moon Jae-in came to power, he ordered an investigation into former President Lee Myung-bak . On the ninth anniversary of Roh Moo-hyun’s death, Lee Myung-bak appeared in court for trial. Others who framed Roh Moo-hyun also received varying degrees of punishment. 's handling of Roh Moo-hyun's political opponents is not Moon Jae-in's deliberate revenge.
Because he understood that the consortium behind Lee Myung-bak and others was the real culprit who killed Roh Moo-hyun. The consortium headed by Samsung is the fundamental reason why Korean society has fallen into class solidification and the imbalance between the rich and the poor. If South Korea wants to continue to develop, it cannot allow consortiums to interfere wantonly in major national policies.
Therefore, Moon Jae-in has also introduced many policies to restrict the unbridled behavior of the consortium.
At the judicial level, Moon Jae-in has resolutely cracked down on various illegal activities by consortium forces. Samsung GroupLee Jae-yong and other consortium leaders have been imprisoned for their crimes.
Internationally, Moon Jae-in has a different pro-U.S. attitude from his predecessor. He adheres to neutrality and resolutely prevents South Korea from getting involved in disputes between major powers. This makes the U.S. government very angry. Because for a long time, South Korea can be said to have followed the lead of the United States in diplomacy.
Moon Jae-in’s neutral policy has won him the favor of other countries. Relations between China and South Korea have also recovered rapidly, and economic and trade exchanges between the two countries have gradually resumed, basically eliminating the impact of the "THAAD incident".
After Moon Jae-in came to power, a series of actions in domestic and foreign affairs gave South Korean society a completely new look.
makes a last-ditch effort for South Korea
Although he has achieved good results during his term as president, for Moon Jae-in, there are still two major things to do before leaving. The first is to take back wartime command authority from the US military.
Because for a normal country, wartime command power is an important part of sovereignty. Without this power, this country cannot be called a normal country.
However, South Korea’s response to Moon Jae-in’s idea was very cold.Without domestic support, Moon Jae-in lost the leverage to negotiate with the United States, and the matter quickly fell into disuse.
The second major thing Moon Jae-in has to do is to carry out judicial reform. The content of judicial reform is to reduce the independent investigative power of South Korean prosecutors.
It is precisely because of this power that South Korean prosecutors can investigate anyone, even the president is not immune.
However, this power is often used by the current president to attack political opponents. This is also the main reason why the South Korean president was liquidated after he resigned.
This judicial reform naturally aroused strong opposition from South Korea's prosecutorial agencies. In protest, a large number of prosecutors, including South Korea's Prosecutor General Kim Joo-soo, submitted their resignations. The opposition also took the opportunity to support the prosecutor and made a big splash to criticize Moon Jae-in.
Amid domestic opposition, Moon Jae-in could only suspend judicial reform. His last attempt can be said to have failed.
His daughter has never supported him
Although Moon Jae-in has made good achievements in the presidency, his children have not shown much support and have even hindered him to some extent.
Moon Jae-in and his wife Kim Jung-sook have a son and a daughter. Although their father Moon Jae-in is a politician, the siblings have not been interested in politics since childhood. Daughter Wen Duohui is a low-key person and does not like to be in the limelight, so she rarely participates in her father's political activities.
According to South Korea’s National Daily, when Moon Jae-in ran for president for the first time in 2012, Moon Da-hye even directly opposed her father’s candidacy and refused to attend all Moon Jae-in’s campaign events.
In 2017, Moon Jae-in ran for the second time. Although Moon Da Hye did not oppose this time, she did not appear in front of voters to support her father until the night before the presidential election.
But what Moon Jae-in did not expect was that after he was elected, his daughter not only did not express support, but instead joined the opposition camp. In South Korea, where hierarchy and superiority are clearly defined, this incident once caused an uproar.
Faced with his daughter's seemingly "backstabbing" behavior, Moon Jae-in did not blame his daughter. He publicly stated that he respected his daughter's choice and believed that "she has her own life" .
One wave after another, in 2019, Wen Duohui and her husband immigrated to Thailand and transferred their property overseas. But after immigrating, Wen Dahui and his family still enjoyed the security provided by the Korean government, which cost up to 5.6 million yuan per year. After the
incident was exposed, it quickly became a hot topic in South Korea. Many Korean people believed that this was a waste of national property and demanded a reasonable explanation from Blue House.
The son with constant negative news
In addition to constantly "backstabbing" his own daughter, Moon Jae-in's son Moon Junyong is also not a worry. Like Moon Da-hye, Moon Jun-yong was not interested in politics. In college, he majored in art. But after graduation, Wen Junyong's relationship with politics was quite close.
As early as 2007, shortly after Moon Junyong joined the Korean Employment Information Office, he was questioned for "taking Moon Jae-in's back door" because of the opaque recruitment methods.
After Moon Jae-in was elected, news about Moon Junyong continued. Some media pointed out that Wen Junyong owns a company that provides software services to small and medium-sized enterprises. After Moon Jae-in was elected, the business volume of this company surged, and Wen Junyong earned about 100 million yuan from it.
In addition, Moon Junyong often receives relevant awards from the Korean Culture and Arts Council, and has received bonuses and art project funding of up to 69 million won.
In public solicitation activities hosted by large Korean companies such as Hyundai, LG, CJ, and other large Korean companies, Moon Junyong has also repeatedly won awards and received high bonuses. These awards and funding have naturally attracted a lot of skepticism and criticism.
Faced with doubts about Moon Joon-yong from the outside world, Cheong Wa Dae secretary Lee Cheol-hee supported Moon Joon-yong as a "world-class artist." As soon as this statement came out, it immediately attracted all kinds of ridicule from Korean public opinion. South Korea's famous "Chosun Ilbo" also published an article titled "Moon Jae-in's son is a "world-class artist" and the world will laugh after hearing this."
What makes the Korean people even more dissatisfied is that in October 2020, due to the escalating epidemic in South Korea at that time, the South Korean government was preparing to upgrade its epidemic prevention policies. But Wen Junyong’s art exhibition had not yet ended at that time, so Wen Zaiyin postponed the upgrade of the epidemic prevention policy for a few days.
In the face of doubts and criticism, Wen Junyong seemed quite calm. He rarely appears and rarely speaks publicly. Regarding the reason why he does not appear often, Wen Junyong said: "If I appear in front of the public, or try to explain those rumors, the opposition party will definitely say that I am lying again. People have already dug a hole for you to jump into. Who do you think would jump into a pit of fire?"
Wen Junyong's explanation was not understood by most Korean people. Affected by negative news about his son and the impact of the epidemic on South Korea's economy, Moon Jae-in's approval rating has been declining since entering 2021.
The life of the family is hardly peaceful.
Not long ago, Moon Jae-in returned to his home in Gyeongsangnam-do . Wen Dahui no longer plays the role of an opponent and takes her children to live with their parents.
Although Wen Junyong does not live with his parents, he still insists on his creation. But losing his identity as the son of the president has made him less troubled.
However, the forces opposed to Moon Jae-in are not willing to let Moon Jae-in enjoy a retirement life. These people continue to gather at Moon Jae-in’s residence to protest and harass. Therefore, the scene where Moon Da-hye complained on Twitter appeared .
However, apart from a little noise, the life of Moon Jae-in’s family is still peaceful.
Moon Jae-in's life seems to be quite smooth now, but because he has touched the interests of the chaebol, what will be his fate in the future? Will his political opponents use certain behaviors of his children as an excuse to liquidate? It is still unclear. It's hard to say.
Can Moon Jae-in break the "Blue House Curse"? Only time can answer this question.
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Moon Jae-in’s daughter and family moved to Southeast Asia. South Korean lawmakers asked the government to announce the reasons. The Beijing News
Moon Jae-in’s daughter immigrated overseas. Is it still spending taxpayers’ money? Opposition parties are dissatisfied with Overseas Network
Korean congressmen questioned Moon Jae-in's daughter's family immigrating to the Blue House twice a day. Responded to Observer.com
Blue House said Moon Jae-in's son is a "world-class artist" and caused controversy. Korean media published an editorial to refute Observer.com
Article in There was a fight at the door of Yin's house: Demonstrators and tourists were yelling and slapping each other in the face. Overseas website
were fighting against each other? Moon Jae-in’s daughter was revealed to have joined the opposition party. Her father responded this way. Overseas Network
