On the evening of October 26, 1979, then-South Korean President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by Intelligence Minister Kim Jae-gyu at a secret location in Miyai-dong (South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency).
At 1:30 a.m. on the 27th, Park Geun-hye, who was sleeping, received a call from secretary general Kim Kyu-won and learned the news of her father's assassination. Her body froze there for an instant, and then asked, "Is there anything abnormal in front of her?" ”
His father's former cronies suddenly turned against him, accusing Park Chung-hee of being dictatorial and brutal, and he himself was under him. For a time, the man who led South Korea out of poverty and became rich became the target of everyone, and Park Geun-hye experienced the taste of betrayal for the first time.
Park Geun-hye, who has no one to use, can only buy people's hearts with money, and she finds the minister of investigation, Chun Doo-hwan, gives him a large sum of money, and asks him to find out the truth about her father's assassination. What she didn't know was that money was not worth mentioning in the face of power. After Chun Doo-hwan took the money, he was not in a hurry to investigate, because he had one more important matter: seizing power. (ps: as to how much money there is, both sides have their own opinions, Chun Doo-hwan said it was 350 million, Park Geun-hye said it was 600 million)
Park Geun-hye's last hopes were dashed, and she finally recognized the reality and resolutely left the Blue House with her younger siblings and returned to her private home in Seoul. Overnight, Park Geun-hye changed her identity and assumed the responsibility of the head of the family. Before leaving, she said that she wanted to live the life of an ordinary person.
If Park Geun-hye can really let go of the past and be willing to be ordinary, she may not live a happy life. The inheritance left by his father is enough for the family to live, and he also has a good education, so it should not be difficult to find a good job.
But she was not reconciled, taking advantage of south Korea's foreign exchange crisis, Park Geun-hye returned to politics after 18 years of absence. People know that she does not want to be an ordinary person, but because of the South Korean government's liquidation of Park Chung-hee, she has to stay away from politics.
Ms. Park should thank Soros for not having created the financial crisis, which she might not have had a chance to return to politics, and the public took it for granted that park Chung-hee's daughter, who created the "Miracle of the Han River," would have led the Republic of Korea out of its economic predicament.
In 1997, Park Geun-hye joined the Grand National Party, and in the same year's presidential election, she made a high-profile return by supporting the party's candidate, Lee Hoe-chang. The following year, Park Geun-hye won elections in Gyeongsangbuk-do and Daegu to become a member of parliament.
She grew bigger and stronger, winning 40 elections and becoming the head of the Big National Party. Later, she resigned as the head of the party and ran for president wholeheartedly, losing to Lee Myung-bak for the first time by a small margin of 1.5%, and in 2012, the comeback Park Geun-hye won Moon Jae-in with a majority of the vote, and was successfully elected as the 18th president of South Korea.
Park Geun-hye's success is not accidental, the people have always favored her, as she herself said, "I have no parents, no husband, no children, the country is the only object I want to serve, I married myself to the Republic of Korea."
As South Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye once had unlimited scenery, and she once stood with Putin in the Tiananmen Tower and climbed to the peak of her life. He also hesitated to fight corruption and promote honesty, so that the people were convinced that they had married the right person.
However, whether it is Park Geun-hye herself or the South Korean people, it is ultimately the wrong payment.
Influenced by her father, Park Geun-hye was pro-U.S. and Japanese in foreign policy. In order to counter the threat from the north, on July 8, 2016, the United States and South Korea reached an agreement to deploy the U.S. THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea. This move greatly damaged the interests of China and Russia, and China implemented countermeasures against it, and the SOUTH Korean economy suffered a huge blow, suffered heavy losses, and for a time people's grievances were rife.
A few months later, South Korean television exposed a scandal in which Ms. Park's girlfriend, Choi Soon-sil, had received more than 200 state secret documents and helped the president revise his speeches. The "Girlfriend Gate" completely ignited the anger of the South Korean people, who took to the streets and held three peace candle rallies before and after, which finally attracted the attention of the authorities and began to thoroughly investigate the "Girlfriend Gate" incident.
Choi Soon-sil is a transparent person, but her father, Choi Tae-min, is the famous "Korean version of Rasputin", the founder of the "Eternal Religion", and there are many believers under her. After Lu Young-so was killed, he wrote a letter to Park Geun-hye, who was in grief, claiming that "Park Geun-hye's mother, Tomon, asked me to help you."
Park Geun-hye, who was extremely confused in her heart, was greatly shocked and immediately invited Choi Tae-min to the Blue House to become her "spiritual teacher". However, according to Choi Tae-min, Park Geun-hye and he are "a husband and wife in the spiritual world".
After Park Chung-hee's death, Choi Tae-min's family took in the rebellious Park Geun-hye, during which time Choi Tae-min introduced his youngest daughter Choi Soon-sil to Park Geun-hye, saying that Choi Soon-sil had inherited his "spiritual power". Park Geun-hye was convinced of this and soon became a good girlfriend with Choi Soon-sil.
Ms. Park once described her hatred of betrayal in her diary, and for 18 years she did not start a family because the blow was so great that it was difficult for her to trust others.
Just when her heart was filled with hatred and betrayal, Choi Soon-sil became the one who sent charcoal in the snow, so she would have an unusual dependence on Choi Soon-sil, not only following Choi Soon-sil's advice on national affairs, but also following Choi Soon-sil's preferences for her daily wear.
On February 4, 2013, Park Geun-hye attended the event to get a domestic handbag, which came from the self-created brand of Choi Soon-sil's younger brother Ko Yong-tae, and after Park Geun-hye successfully brought goods, this brand immediately became famous and became a hit.
Later, Gao Yongtai and Cui Shunshi broke up, and once broke the news that Cui Shun was doing politics, but because others were light-hearted, no one took it seriously, until the content of Cui Shunshi's tablet was exposed, and only then did she confirm her crime of interfering in politics.
On March 10, 2017, South Korea's Supreme Court ruled against Park Geun-hye to remove her from the presidency, adding another title, the first president in South Korean history to be successfully impeached.
On January 14 this year, the court handed down a final verdict against Ms. Park, sentencing her to 20 years in prison and fining her a total of 21.5 billion won (about 126 million yuan). On December 24, South Korean President Moon Jae-in pardoned Park Geun-hye, who will be released from prison on December 31.
Nearly five years in prison has rapidly deteriorated Park's health. Today, in addition to shoulder and lumbar spine diseases, she can no longer chew food, and her spirit is in a state of high anxiety. This legendary woman, once known as the "most beautiful president", has become a disease-ridden old man.
Throughout Park Geun-hye's life, tragedy and opportunity coexist. Although the first half of her life has been doomed, but fate is not without the opportunity to choose, she could have been an ordinary person, living in peace, it was she herself who chose a path to go black, and now the end can not blame others.
And the tragedy of Park Geun-hye is also the tragedy of the whole of Korea. Since the Korean War, South Korea's political genes have been problematic, but economic development has made people ignore these problems for the time being. Park Chung-hee created the "Miracle of the Han River", but also left the country with sequelae: domestic affairs are controlled by chaebols, and foreign affairs are at the mercy of the United States.
To escape the fate of being manipulated, it is necessary to completely weaken the influence of the chaebols and end the deformed political environment under the control of the United States, and this is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
I don't know if Park Geun-hye will regret the decision she made on that day in 1997 when she looked back on the past.