At 6 o'clock on March 10, the sky in South Korea was just bright, and there were a few stars scattered in the deep white sky.
When the first rays of sunlight shine into the streets of Seoul, Yoon Seok-yue's life also ushered in a bright dawn.
Yin Xiyue
At 6:00 a.m. on the 10th, the Central Election Management Committee of south Korea completed a 100% vote count for the current presidential election, and the results showed that South Korea's largest opposition party: the presidential candidate of the National Forces Party, Yoon Seok-yue, was successfully elected president with 48.56% of the vote, while the ruling party: Common Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung lost with 47.83% support.
After the results of the vote count were announced, Lee Jae-ming made a speech acknowledging the defeat and congratulating Yoon Seok-yue on his victory in the general election.
Shortly thereafter, South Korea's current president, Moon Jae-in, also called to congratulate Yoon Seok-wook and discussed a plan for the transition of the presidency.
That is to say, with Lee Jae-min and Moon Jae-in successively stating their positions, south Korea's 20th presidential election has officially come to an end, and there is no objection from all parties to the vote counting results, and Yoon Seok-yue's victory is "unmistakable".
In addition, this Korean general election also set 4 "most".
1, this is the "most intense" presidential election in South Korean history.
In addition to Yin Xiyue and Li Zaiming, 12 people signed up for the election, a total of 14 people. This is one of the most numerous and competitive elections in South Korean history.
Lee Jae Ming
2, this is the smallest gap in The history of South Korea, the majority of the vote gap is the smallest election.
The difference between Yin Xiyue and Lee Jae-ming's final vote rate is less than 1%, Yin Xiyue only wins by "slight advantage", and Lee Jae-ming only "regrets defeat". If Li Zaiming is doing a few more efforts in the canvassing process and running a few more campaign rallies, maybe the ending will be reversed.
But alas, there is no "if" in this world...
3, this is the "most suspenseful" election in Korean history.
Although there are as many as 14 candidates in this election, the general election situation has already shown a "three-legged" trend, namely Lee Jae-myung, Yoon Seok-yue and South Korea's second-largest opposition candidate, Ahn Chul-so.
But unexpectedly, before the election began, the families of Lee Jae-ming and Yoon Seok-yue were exposed to "scandals", and the support rate fell one after another, while An Zhexiu was due to the mysterious death of 2 members of the campaign team and suffered negative public opinion, and finally announced his withdrawal from the election and turned to support Yin Xiyue.
Therefore, in the end of the general election, the situation is almost "Lee Jae-ming and Yoon Seok-yue choose one of the two", and because both have been exposed to "scandals" and the support rate of the polls is almost the same, no one can predict the final result.
But now, with the results out, all the suspense is gone.
Moon Jae-in and Yoon Seok-wook
4, this is one of the most "influential" elections in Korean history.
First, since Yoon Seok-yue is a candidate for the National Power Party, after being elected president, it means that the South Korean ruling party and various government departments will experience a "great blood change", and the Korean political arena will also usher in an inevitable round of violent turmoil.
Second, the situation in South Korea's political arena will change completely. Because on the day of announcing the abstention, Ahn Cheol-so also said that after the election, he would merge his National Force party with Yoon Seok-yue's National Force.
That is to say, next, South Korea's first and second largest opposition parties will not only merge into one, but will also become the new ruling party in South Korea.
At that time, the new party that has merged into one will dominate South Korean politics to a great extent.
Therefore, for Lee Jae-myung, Moon Jae-in, and their Common Democratic Party, losing the election will not only mean "losing the election", but also losing its current dominance in South Korean politics, at least for the next 5 years, it will be difficult to make a comeback.
Third, due to the "particularity" of Yoon Seok-wooon's identity, his victory will profoundly affect the future fate of Moon Jae-in and Park Geun-hye.
Why?
Yoon Seok-yue, 62, who did not come from a traditional politician background, became a lawyer after graduating from the Seoul Election Law School in South Korea.
It wasn't until 1994, when Yoon Seok-wook was 34, that she became a South Korean prosecutor, and her first stop was the Daegu District Prosecutor's Office, Park Geun-hye's hometown.
For more than 20 years, Yoon Seok-wook started in Daegu and worked as a prosecutor in Suwon, Busan, Gwangju, and Seoul.
In 2016, Yin Xiyue ushered in an important turning point of "blockbuster and outstanding siege".
Because this year, Park Geun-hye, then the president of South Korea, was exposed to the "cronies interfering in politics" incident, and Yoon Seok-yue happened to be responsible for handling the matter.
Under Yoon Seok-wook's leadership, the investigation soon progressed, Park Geun-hye was impeached by the National Assembly, and her "girlfriends" Choi Soon-sil and Samsung Lee Jae-yong were arrested, and Park Geun-hye was imprisoned for this.
This is not the end, after the former President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak was exposed to the "corruption case", Yoon Seok-yue was also responsible for the investigation, and Lee Myung-bak was eventually sent to prison, and is still in prison.
In other words, two former presidents of South Korea, Park Geun-hye and Lee Jae-myung, were "sent in" by Yoon Seok-yue.
It is precisely because of this that Yoon Seok-yue was once regarded as the "presidential nemesis" by the South Korean people, and was also known as the "sword bearer" of the South Korean procuratorial system.
After Moon Jae-in came to power, Yoon Seok-yue, who had a prominent performance, was soon fully valued and promoted to the head of the Seoul Central Local Police Department.
In 2019, Moon once again promoted Yoon Seok-wook to South Korea's attorney general.
From an unknown prosecutor to the top official of South Korea's procuratorial system, Yoon Seok-yue took only 25 years.
If there were no Two "out-of-the-box promotions" by Moon Jae-in, Yin Xiyue estimated that it would take longer to reach the position of Prosecutor General.
Of course, one of the most important reasons why Moon Jae-in promoted Yoon Seok-yue as attorney general, in addition to appreciating and valuing it, is to take this opportunity to promote judicial reform in South Korea.
Because, in South Korea, the power of prosecutors is too great, and the power of this "sword" can be seen from Yoon Seok-yue's personal "sending two former presidents to prison". And once the power is too large and lacks constraints, it is prone to problems.
It is precisely such a "problem" that in disguise has led to chaos and turmoil in the South Korean political arena, and internal "entanglement between officials and businessmen" abounds, and even the President of South Korea is not spared.
After Moon Came to power, he regarded the cleansing of the Political Order in South Korea as his mission, and it was an important part of the judicial reform to restrain the power of prosecutors.
After Yoon Seok-yue became attorney general, Moon appointed "confidant" Cho Mi-ai as minister of justice, making personnel changes to 32 officials at the level of prosecutor general. And these 32 people are all members of Yin Xiyue's core team.
Seeing that "his own people" were demoted by the South Korean Ministry of Justice, Yoon Seok-yue naturally did not do it, and then launched a counterattack, which triggered a sensational "legal prosecution dispute". At its most intense, prosecutors across South Korea went on strike.
Faced with the "protests" of the South Korean prosecutorial system, Moon Jae-in approved the suspension of Yoon Seok-yue at the suggestion of Cho Mei-ae. But then, Yoon Seok-wook filed a lawsuit, and the court ruled that Moon's suspension was invalid, and he returned to work.
But not long after, the "disheartened" Yin Xiyue submitted his resignation, then turned around and joined the National Power Party, and announced his participation in the presidential election.
It should be explained here that the original name of the Kuomintang was the "Future Unification Party," and the top and backbone members of the party are from the political parties of Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak.
Therefore, Yin Xiyue joined the party and was elected president on behalf of the party, which is indeed a very "dramatic and ironic scene".
More importantly, before being elected president, Yoon seok-yue said that as long as he was elected president, he would order a thorough investigation into the current government, that is, the abuses of the Moon jae-in government, but he would not interfere in the investigation process.
Now that Yoon Seok-yue has indeed been elected president, the likelihood of Moon Jae-in being "liquidated" has greatly increased.
Finally, let's have a few sighs.
Throughout the first half of Yoon Seok-wook's life, starting from the Daegu Prosecutor's Office, he has been obscure for more than 20 years, to his fame and become the attorney general of South Korea, and now to the president-elect, every important turning point is related to Park Geun-hye, Moon Jae-in and others, but Yoon Seok-yue's relationship with Park and Moon is not good.
Therefore, Yoon Seok-wook's election as president is bound to double the pressure on Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in.
On the one hand, Park Geun-hye, who was granted amnesty, has been released from prison and returned to her hometown in Daegu. If Park Geun-hye wants to return to politics next, she must pass the Yoon Seok-yue pass.
On the other hand, Moon Jae-in, who is about to step down, may be waiting for him to be "reckoned" and "Blue House Curse", or it may be the former "confidant" who meets and laughs and hates, everything is full of unknowns.
Perhaps the only thing that is certain at present is that after the National Forces Party comes back to power, the South Korean political scene will not be peaceful again.
Next, let's see how the situation develops.