The woman was wearing brand-name clothes and exquisitely made-up. She was sitting in the back row of a luxury car and making a phone call. Suddenly, she raised her left hand and placed it gently under her nose. It seemed that she smelled something unbearable. She looked around and looked for the source of the smell. The woman looked forward, her eyes full of disgust and disdain.
shot follows the woman's eyes to the front row of the luxury car. The person driving is a middle-aged uncle dressed in ordinary clothes and a humble face. It turns out that the woman is disgusting the poor smell of the driver.
This is exactly a plot in the famous Korean movie " Parasite ", which shows the huge difference in the social status of the poor and rich in South Korea in the film.
Some people think this is just a movie, how can it be so exaggerated in reality? Is it great to have money? But in South Korea, having money is really amazing.
Korean chaebols have the vast majority of the country's resources, manipulate the country's economic lifeline, and even violate the law, and will not be severely punished.
To understand how arrogant these chaebols are in South Korea, we must start with the birth of chaebols.
As we all know, after the end of World War II , the Korean Peninsula was divided into two, forming a confrontation between the north and the south.
But what most people don’t know is that during this period of time, North Korea’s economic level is higher than that of South Korea.
The reason for this result is that the Japanese occupation era left North Korea with a complete heavy industry system, while South Korea only has a small part of the light industry.
It can be said that South Korea at that time was definitely considered a weak country and poor people. However, in the eyes of , Lee Seung-man , developing the economy was not the most important task at that time, and completing the great cause of unification was his lifelong pursuit.
So Korean War broke out. Of course, everyone must be very clear about the ending of this war and did not realize Rhye’s ambitions. On the surface, South Korea did not gain much in this war, but in fact, Rhye hugged a very thick thigh - American .
After this battle, the United States increased its support for South Korea, and hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in the South Korean market. This amount of money seems to be small, but you should know that in that era, this was almost half of the GDP in South Korea.
With this money, Rhee decided to work hard to develop the economy. The method he adopted was somewhat similar to that of China during the reform and opening up of , that is, the country paid money, strongly supporting some businessmen to make them rich first, and then through their leadership, the entire South Korean economy has achieved great development.
I have to say that Lee Seung-man’s wishful thinking was very good, and his thinking seemed to be nothing wrong with .
When Lee Seung-man threw these funds to the founders of the current Korean chaebol, they did achieve amazing results. They did live up to expectations and have been working hard for South Korea's economic rise.
Just at this time, the United States and Vietnam met in a disagreement. In order to support South Korea, the United States handed over all large orders of weapons to Korean companies.
So the Korean chaebol successfully took the super express train of the United States and his wealth grew rapidly. Seeing that Rhee's economic take-off plan was about to be realized, at this time, a major event happened in South Korea, completely disrupting all his layout.
In 1960, Lee Seung-man's long-term dictatorship aroused the dissatisfaction of the general public. Coupled with his series of erratic operations in the presidential election, the opposition from the Korean people to the peak. The 419 revolution broke out in South Korea, and Lee Seung-man stepped down in disgrace amid protests. After
, Park Chung-hee took over as president of the Republic of Korea. Park Chung-hee's attitude towards chaebols is actually similar to that of chaebols. He also regards these chaebols as tools for his own development of the Korean economy. However, unlike html, his ambitions must be greater, and he must let these chaebols go abroad and become the world's top companies.
After Park Chung-hee came to power, the first thing he did was to nationalize the bank and then provide a large amount of funds and convenient policies to help these chaebols go out of South Korea and go to the world.
In fact, he took this step very successfully. The Korean chaebol took advantage of this east wind to invest around the world and continue to grow bigger and stronger.
It was not until one day that Park Chung-hee felt that they were strong enough and were preparing to take back the property in the hands of these chaebols. It turned out that these people had grown to the point where they could bargain with him. At this time, Park Chung-hee realized that it would be not so easy to pick peaches from these chaebols. What he didn't expect was that is just to retain the wealth in his hands, and it is far from satisfying the ambitions of the chaebols .
1971, South Korea experienced an economic crisis and export trade shrank significantly. At this time, the chaebols jumped out and said to Park Chung-hee: "Only by allowing our group to act as a proxy for South Korea's export business can we get rid of the current dilemma."
It was not until this time that Park Chung-hee suddenly realized that the tool in his eyes was to turn over and be the master.
Park Chung-hee naturally knew that if the country made concessions this time, it would probably be restrained everywhere in the future. But it is clear that it is one thing, and whether to do it or not is another thing. The dilemma facing South Korea can only be solved by the chaebols. As the saying goes, the two evils are the least. In order to save the people of , South Korea, , Park Chung-hee can only compromise.
It is from this moment that the South Korean government has made concessions in the following decades, and the South Korean chaebols are becoming stronger and stronger. To this day, they can already surpass the South Korean government because behind them, the capital of the entire Wall Street is backed by the US government. The US government attaches great importance to the chaebols, and the South Korean government takes the lead in the United States.
Now, South Korean chaebol enterprises have penetrated into all walks of life, and more than half of the country's GDP is created by chaebols. If the South Korean government wants to deal with chaebols, then the country's economy will inevitably face a crisis of collapse. It can be said that Park Chung-hee's concession has caused the South Korean government to lose the last chance to deal with the chaebol group.
However, during this period, although the South Korean government did not dare to deal with the chaebol, it is still possible to have fair dialogue with the chaebols.
until Lee Myung-bak came to power, using the president's power to continuously transfer interests to the chaebol group, resulting in the South Korean government being completely at a disadvantage from then on. As for why Lee Myung-bak did this, the reason is actually very simple, because before he took office as president, he was the president of Hyundai Construction Group.
With such confidence, the Korean chaebols naturally became more and more arrogant, and later they acted recklessly, despised everything, and regarded the general public as a mustard.
Among the many chaebol groups in South Korea, five are the most powerful, namely Samsung Group , Hyundai Group, LG Group , Lotte Group , and SK Group. Therefore, South Korea during this period was also nicknamed the "Five Major chaebol Republics".
In March 2009, the new Korean actress Zhang Ziyan committed suicide at home. The news immediately aroused the public's doubts. What kind of blow has it happened to make a woman who has just started her career and is 29 years old doing such an extreme thing.
Then the South Korean police investigated the matter and the final result was that Zhang Ziyan suffered from severe depression , which was also the culprit that caused her suicide.
Immediately afterwards, her painful past was exposed online by interested people, such as the death of both parents at the age of 19, and the various problems between her and her agency. It is these news that makes people feel that after Zhang Ziyan has experienced so much pain, it seems that it is not unacceptable to suffer from depression.
This incident did not attract people's attention at the time. After all, in South Korea, it was not very strange that celebrities committed suicide.
In a blink of an eye, time came 2011. South Korea's SBS TV suddenly released a suicide note left by Zhang Ziyan, which recorded the nightmare life she had experienced.
According to the suicide note, the agency has repeatedly forced her to drink and sleep with her. During this process, these "guests" did not treat her as human beings, and they beat, scolded, abused, and insulted her at will. They would ask Zhang Ziyan to dance on the table in a skirt for them to appreciate. In order to have a good time, they forced Zhang Ziyan to undergo sterilization surgery. What's more, when filming, the director often improvised to ask her to have a large-scale drama in public.
During this period, Zhang Ziyan had resisted countless times, but what she received was just a beat and an even worsening exploitation.
She had thought of breaking the contract, but the high debt to break the contract was a heavy burden that she could not bear. Even if she mustered up the courage to call the police, she received only insults over and over again. No one was at the mercy for her, because all those who committed atrocities against her were high-powered celebrities.
suicide note is full of Zhang Ziyan's fear, helplessness and accusations of these beasts. It also mentioned that at most she had to provide services to more than 10 people a day, and this treatment was far inferior to some senior prostitutes. At the end of the suicide note, Zhang Ziyan roared: "Even if you are a ghost, you will not let these demons go!" The exposure of this suicide note completely pulled off the fig leaf of Korean society and instantly triggered public opinion among the people.
Jian Ziyan's boss during her lifetime, Kim Seung-hoon, has stood up and publicly shouted: "In the Korean entertainment industry, there will never be such a thing as sleeping with her."
Although compared with Kim Seung-hoon's empty mouth and white teeth, Jang Zi-yoon's suicide note is more convincing, and the general public also believes more in Zhang Zi-yoon who shouts with his own lives, but what is disappointing is that those demons still fail to receive the punishment they deserve.
Even the culprit Kim Seung-hoon was sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation, and the charge was only violently assaulting an employee.
People who are familiar with Korean laws should know that this kind of punishment is no different from acquittal, and it is just a performance made by the South Korean government to quell public grievances.
Although Zhang Ziyan’s suicide note records what really happened, none of the people who knew the inside story dared to come forward to testify for her. Even her boyfriend disappeared for no reason before the trial. Later, he even publicly claimed that he did not know anything about Zhang Ziyan, let alone what happened to her.
Just like that, Zhang Ziyan's case was left unresolved again, and her friend who had been urging her to flee South Korea.
However, in this suicide note, Zhang Ziyan listed a list of the names of 31 top powerful people who had hurt her. The names of Lotte Group founders Singhhao and his son Xin Dongbin are listed.
To this day, these 31 people have not been subject to the sanctions they deserve. Even among them, someone would occasionally go to court for violating the law, but in the end they all raised high and let go.
In 2017, Lotte Group Singhhao was taken to court. Of course, it has nothing to do with the Zhang Ziyan case. The charges are nothing more than illegal money making and illegal business operations.
At that time, Singhhao was 95 years old, but the old man, who was dying with a candle, performed very arrogantly in court, and even shouted in Japanese: "Who dares to judge me!"
Finally, the judge had to force him to take him out of the court, and the trial was successfully carried out.
is surprisingly true that the trial result was as expected. It was sentenced to three years in prison and was exempted from arrest because of being too old. It seems that no one in South Korea dares to try Singhho.
In terms of being arrogant, of course, it is not the only one in South Korea. The Zhao family of Hanjin Group, , is also one of them, and is even called the "monster family".
On December 5, 2014, Zhao Xian'e took her own Korean Air flight to Seoul. During the flight, a flight attendant sent the daughter a pack of nuts to the daughter.
This was a normal service behavior, but because the flight attendant did not take the initiative to help her open the nut packaging, Zhao Xian'e immediately turned against her. Not only did she curse the flight attendant and the flight attendant in person, but she even asked them to kneel in front of her to admit their mistakes. In the end, she was even angry and ordered the plane to turn around, completely ignoring the feelings of other passengers on the plane. After the incident of
, it aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people. In theory, this practice will be sentenced to heavy sentence for Zhao Xian'e in any country, but South Korea did not do so. Even though the public opinion was full of curses, the court still sentenced Zhao Xian'e to ten months of imprisonment, and it was still suspended for execution of . The fairness and justice of the law seemed so pale and powerless at this moment.
The Zhao Xian'e incident just subsided, and Zhao Yuantai, the son of Zhao Lianghao, exposed another scandal of insulting employees and pouring water on the employees' faces in public.
Although Zhao Yuantai made financial compensation to the employees involved and publicly apologized, just imagine what kind of face would Zhao Yuantai have if this matter was not exposed to the Internet by someone who was interested? I'm afraid this is not the first time he has done something similar. In his eyes, ordinary employees have no dignity to talk about.
Once, Zhao Yuantai was traveling by car. In front of the car, an old lady in her 80s was staggering slowly. Zhao Yuantai actually opened the door and got out of the car, pushed the old lady down, and punched her.
A passing traffic policeman hurriedly stepped forward to stop him when he saw this. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuantai was furiously ordered the driver to drive, knocked the traffic police away, and then left.
Of course, no one was so arrogant and cruel when he was born. The reason why the children of the Zhao family grew up to such people is directly related to family education .
Their mother Li Mingji is even better than these children. She insults and beats the servants at home, and fists and kicks and asks employees to kneel down and apologize. Her scandal can be said to be one after another, and she is a veritable "monster mother".
The power of the Korean chaebol is not only reflected in the attitude towards the people at the bottom, but they dare to fight hard even when facing the South Korean president.
In 2007, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun attacked Samsung Group, and President Lee Kun-hee was sentenced to three years in prison and five years of probation for illegally transferring the operating rights.
Although this penalty has no meaning to Lee Kun-hee, it shows Roh Moo-hyun's attitude towards the chaebol group. From this moment on, the war between him and the chaebol group officially kicked off.
Unfortunately, although Roh Moo-hyun has been committed to solving the problem of South Korean chaebols, he has no ability to improve South Korea's economy.
For the lower-class people of South Korea, it is not important which group holds power. As long as they can eat and wear, have a house to live in, have a job to afford medical treatment.
But Roh Moo-hyun, who left the support of the chaebol, obviously could not do this, and in the end he could only leave the scene in awe of curses.
After Roh Moo-hyun stepped down, the chaebol group did not let go of this person who dared to provoke them. They used the newly appointed president to conduct a full-scale investigation of him and his family and friends. Roh Moo-hyun himself is honest and honest, but not all his relatives can do this.
So the charges of relatives and friends were all put on Roh Moo-hyun. Seeing that his relatives were implicated for a moment, Roh Moo-hyun felt ashamed of his family and eventually collapsed completely. After leaving a sentence "History will give me a fair evaluation", he jumped off the cliff and committed suicide.
Even the person with the greatest power in the state is not a rival to the chaebol group, so how can others resist? So over the years, both the South Korean government and the general public have chosen to lie down.
Until 2019, the outbreak of the "Li Shengli" incident in caused the "Zhang Ziyan case" to ferment again, which allowed the current president Moon Jae-in to see an opportunity to deal with the chaebol group.
While ordering a comprehensive investigation, he sent his wife and children to a foreign country to express his determination to fight the chaebol group.
But in the end, there was still a lot of thunder and rain. Li Shengli was punished a little, and the "Zhang Ziyan case" was even more convicted by the procuratorate on the grounds that it was too long to investigate.
This made Moon Jae-in understand that if he wanted to deal with the chaebol, he had to deal with the procuratorate first. After a series of games, Moon Jae-in finally mastered the procuratorial system. June 2020 Samsung leader Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to prison, but he did not delay this time.
It seems that Moon Jae-in won a victory, and the whole country of South Korea was also full of joy. Unfortunately, just 7 months after Lee Jae-yong was imprisoned, Moon Jae-in once again announced his amnesty, giving the reason for the benefit of the country.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the reason why Moon Jae-in compromised was probably due to pressure from a certain country. After all, the chips in that country need supply from Samsung Group. No matter what the reason, the South Korean government finally made a compromise with the chaebol group again.
Just like a saying circulating in South Korea, except for life and death, nothing can bypass the chaebol group. In South Korea, no matter what industry you are in, you are working for the chaebol group. is facing such a huge thing, the South Korean government still has a long way to go if it really solves this problem.
