Park Geun-hye who was impeached and detained
According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean Grand Court announced that the former President Park Geun-hye’s "best friends" involved in the political case and received national intelligence agents. After the special funding case will be sent back for retrial, its first trial will be held at the High Court in Seoul, South Korea on the 15th.
Previously, Park Geun-hye faced a sentence of 25 years in prison. For her 67-year-old, it is no different from life imprisonment. However, the South Korean Public Prosecutors and Law Department is still reluctant to let go. The South Korean Supreme Court held that the other cases of "friends" and Park Geun-hye were not tried separately, and the part found innocent in the second instance should be regarded as guilty.
Cui Shunshi, the protagonist of the "Confidential Intervention Case"
"Girlfriend Gate" is also known as the Cui Shunshi case. On October 24, 2016, South Korean media reported that a large number of speeches during the presidency of Park Geun-hye and a series of confidential documents were found on the tablet of Park Geun-hye’s friend Cui Soon-sil, and many speeches were secretly used. Cui Shunshi knew in advance, and he was suspected of revising the presidential speech.
In addition, Cui Soon-sil was accused of exploiting his relationship with Park Geun-hye for profit and corruption, which dealt a serious blow to Park Geun-hye and eventually led to his impeachment. On March 10, 2017, the Korean Constitutional Court officially passed Park Geun-hye’s impeachment. Park Geun-hye was deposed.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun before Lee Myung-bak took office
For South Korean politics, the "Blue House Curse" is essentially a cleansing of political factions that you sang and I appeared on stage. And behind the game between conservatives and pro-Northern leftists, there are deep reasons why the chaebol controls the entire South Korean economy and society.
Lee Myung-bak’s predecessor, Roh Moo-hyun, immediately became involved in a bribery scandal after leaving office. This was purely a “routine” in Korean politics. In the end Roh Moo-hyun chose to commit suicide by jumping off the cliff. For Moon Jae-in, Roh Moo-hyun is also a teacher and friend, and can be called his guide. Both of them have similar family backgrounds. Both were born in poverty. They both participated in the civil rights movement. After becoming lawyers, they have been helping leftist groups. Eventually after the democratization of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun was successfully elected president and introduced Moon Jae-in to South Korean politics.
Moon Jae-in attended Roh Moo-hyun’s funeral
As a comparison, Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, who were sentenced successively, are representatives of conservatives. Lee Myung-bak was an executive of Hyundai Group before becoming president, and Park Geun-hye’s father, Park Jong-hee, was one of the founders of the conservative faction in the South Korean military, and his relationship with Samsung was also an open secret.
Lee Myung-bak has not been liquidated after leaving office because his successor is Park Geun-hye, who is also a conservative. However, Park Geun-hye himself broke a series of scandals during his tenure, such as the "Girlfriends Gate", and finally sent Moon Jae-in to the presidency. Only then was the pro-Northern Leftist able to avenge Roh Moo-hyun.
Lee Myung-bak, one of the chaebol presidents
Comparing Lee Myung-bak, Park Geun-hye, Moon Jae-in, and Roh Moo-hyun will give you an intuitive understanding of South Korea’s left-right opposition. And this also makes the dispute between left and right become life and death. So when Li Mingbo was sentenced, he even publicly chanted that this was Moon Jae-in's revenge, which also allowed decades of behind-the-scenes struggle to formally go to the front of the stage.
Park Jung-hee (left) who was assassinated, and Park Geun-hye on the right
Throughout history, those who entered the Blue House, without exception, will be ruined after leaving office. Up to 7 of the 11 South Korean presidents who have retired were sentenced, one was assassinated and the other committed suicide. The best ending Kim Young Sam was also deported. Park Geun-hye's impeachment means that no South Korean president has been spared so far, so he was also Called the "Blue House Curse".
Cao Guo, who was appointed by Moon Jae-in as Minister of Legal Affairs
Naturally, Moon Jae-in is very clear about this tragic situation. In addition to revenge for Roh Moo-hyun, he has always Seek ways to crack and avoidWas forced to follow the old path of his teacher. After his confidant Cao Guo was deeply caught in the scandal, Moon Jae-in insisted on appointing him as Minister of Legal Affairs, hoping to make arrangements in advance and leave himself a way out.
And after Cao Guo resigned due to the scandal, Moon Jae-in pushed to limit the power of the procuratorate to prevent being used to liquidate himself. Recently, the South Korean National Assembly passed the "Act on Establishing a Criminal Investigation Division for High-level Public Officials," which broke the monopoly of prosecutors and deprived prosecutors of their privileges. It can be said to be a great victory for Moon Jae-in.
In the future, whether Moon Jae-in can escape the "blue house curse" depends on his liquidation methods against conservatives and South Korean chaebols, as well as his successor layout and the results of the 2022 general election. There are still two years left before the next election. It can be said that the heavy sentences of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye are just the beginning.
