In May this year, Moon Jae-in stepped down as South Korea's president and has lived a quiet retirement life since then. Judging from the photos released by the media, Moon Jae-in has a beard after leaving office and no longer dyes his hair. He is wearing casual clothes, which is a world of difference from his capable image of a straight suit during his tenure.
However, this image of being invincible did not bring him peace in life. According to media reports, people often protested and demonstrated at the attachment of his private residence, which made the neighbors disturbed him, and eventually Moon Jae-in had to turn to the police for help.
In South Korea, the president has become a "high-risk occupation". The "presidential curse" and "Blue Wa Dae curse" in South Korea's political arena have almost become its unique "political culture". Many people think that it is probably not so easy for Moon Jae-in to live a peaceful life just like this.
As expected, on September 13, the South Korean State Adjustment Office released an investigation report, saying that it was found that there were illegal cases such as forging tax invoices or illegally using farmland to install solar facilities in the solar energy projects of the Moon Jae-in government, and that settlement letter fraud were found in the projects that issued subsidies.
From September last year to August this year, the South Korean State Adjustment Office and other relevant institutions conducted a sample survey on the "Electricity Industry Basic Fund Project". The survey results show that there are 2,267 cases of illegal and corruption, involving a funding scale of 261.6 billion won (approximately RMB 1.3 billion).
South Korean Prime Minister After listening to the relevant report, Han Dezhu said, "The solar energy project is indeed a bottomless pit that constantly hollows out the national treasury." Senior officials of the State Adjustment Office said, "Although there have been some expectations, I was still shocked after seeing the report." "The consequences of the last government's excessive efforts in promoting solar projects have been exposed."
Whenever the South Korean regime is handed over, the former president and his confidants are inevitably investigated for corruption. As early as the new president, Yoon Seo-yeol, had already launched an investigation into Moon Jae-in. On August 19 alone, the Seoul Central District Procuratorate and the Dae-Tian District Procuratorate conducted two raids of the Presidential Archives in order to obtain "evidence" during Moon Jae-in's administration.
Competition between South Korean political parties and between the government and the opposition is cruel, and the new president often establishes his authority by "liquidating" the former president. Now, due to the combined influence of various factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recession and setbacks in education reform, the public expectations of the Yoon Seo-yue government are declining, and the pace of liquidating predecessors may be further accelerated.
Since the transition from the military government to democratic in the 1980s, at least six presidents and their confidants have been politically liquidated by later generations. When liquidating their predecessors, the Procuratorate was the "sharp knife" in the hands of the new president.
The South Korean Procuratorate has relatively independent, and it almost monopolizes the right to investigate and prosecute. Even if the police handle the case, it must be reviewed and supervised by the prosecution.
In fact, when Moon Jae-in sent Park Geun-hye to prison, Yoon Seok-young, as a prosecutor, was Moon Jae-in's right-hand assistant. After Park Geun-hye was imprisoned, Moon Jae-in began to vigorously promote the reform of the procuratorial system, which harmed the interests of the procuratorial system headed by Yoon Seok-young.
Interestingly, just two days after the corruption issue was made public, South Korea's "Chronichou Ilbo" reported that the list of the most trusted former presidents of Koreans in 2022 was released on the same day, with Roh Moo-hyun ranked first, and Moon Jae-in, who was the first to participate in the evaluation, ranked third.
Ro Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in are both teachers and friends, have close relationships and very similar political views. He agreed with the concept of "South Korea and the United States are alliances and South Korea and North Korea are compatriots", and once hiked across the military dividing line and met with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Il, making great achievements in South Korea-North Korea relations. In addition, Roh Moo-hyun also enjoyed the title of "Mr. Integrity" during his tenure.
But this "integrity" who is trusted by the public was trapped in corruption shortly after resigning from office and returning home, and finally chose to jump off the cliff and commit suicide.
Nowadays, the "Blue Wa Tai Curse" seems to have begun to approach Moon Jae-in. I wonder if he will follow Roh Moo-hyun's footsteps?
