Blue House
The history of the Blue House
The Blue House was built in the 11th century during the reign of Emperor Sujong of Goryeo and was originally the palace of the Great King of the Goryeo Dynasty.
In 1426, after the Joseon Dynasty established the capital of Seoul, as the back garden of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Longmu Hall, Gyeongnong Jae and Martial Arts Training Ground were built, and a piece of the king's pro-farmland was opened, which was used as a examination hall for examination.
In 1927, the Japanese built a new office building in Gyeongbokgung Palace and located the official residence of the Governor of Korea, Namjiro.
From 1945 to 1948, it was used as the official residence of John Hodge, the military chief of the U.S. Military in Korea.
From July 24, 1948 to April 26, 1960, it was used as an official residence by Rhee and called "Jingwutai". The presidential office was destroyed by a fire inside the Central Office of the Korean War.
On April 19, 1960, after the overthrow of the Syngman Rhee regime, Yoon was elected president and moved to Gyeongbudai. Because Yin Yan was jealous of the word "wu" and in order to correspond with the White House in the United States, he named the group of buildings with white walls and blue tiles blue tiles blue tiles, which was called "Blue Palace" at that time.
On the night of January 21, 1968, 31 North Korean death squad members unknowingly crossed the heavily defended demilitarized zone, and after five days of arduous trekking in the mountains, they rushed to the South Korean presidential palace, the Blue House, to prepare to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-hee, but the final plan was exposed, and the assassination plan failed, known in history as the "Blue House Incident".
After the Blue House incident, in order to prevent North Korean spies, basic security facilities were set up in the area around the Blue House. Demonstrations and rallies held by south Koreans can only be held in Gwanghwamun Square, and the roads near the Blue House are forbidden to allow gatherings.
In 1991, a new museum was built during the Roh Tae-woo period, which used the main building as the official residence of the President of South Korea, including the President's Office, reception hall, conference room, and living room, and the annex building added a secretary room and a welcome building.
After Kim Young-sam came to power, he demolished the old building where the Governor of Korea lived during the Japanese occupation in August 1993.
Related to the building of the Blue House, it is said that the "Blue House Curse", as one of the iconic words in South Korea, together with words such as "kimchi", is well known all over the world, and it is also the fate that successive Korean presidents cannot escape.
Manifestation of the Blue House Spell
The Blue House Curse began with South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee, and erupted most sharply during the third president, Park Chung-hee, until the reign of incumbent President Moon Jae-in, when there were some signs of improvement.
The emergence and development of the Blue House Curse is inseparable from the infiltration of the United States into South Korea and the control of the chaebols over South Korea.
During the first South Korean president, Syngman Rhee, the obvious influence of the United States on South Korea reached its peak, and Rhee had no ideas on economic construction, nor was his mind on economic development, but on eliminating dissidents and retaining the US military, so as to achieve the goal of monopolizing power and confronting the DPRK. Therefore, the people in the country do not have a good life, and the people's grievances are rife.
Syngman Rhee's perverse actions eventually sparked a series of anti-government movements, and the "419 Revolution" that shocked Northeast Asia broke out in South Korea, and Rhee was forced to resign and go into exile in Hawaii.
After the "419 Revolution", Park Chung-hee, the father of Park Geun-hye, officially became the third president of South Korea after a transitional government. During Park Chung-hee's presidency, South Korea's economy has developed rapidly, and Park Chung-hee is also recognized as the president who has contributed the most to the Korean economy.
Park Chung-hee joined the military horse as a civilian, and after coming to power, he ushered in the military government of South Korea, which was also the period when South Korea's Samsung and other chaebols rose rapidly. South Korea has almost invested in the semiconductor industry with national strength, and promoted the rapid expansion of Korean companies in the world with the chaebol system, achieving the "Miracle of the Han River".
But with the assassination of Park Chung-hee, the chaebol system, which has made great contributions to the Korean economy, began to spiral out of control, and the chaebol tentacles extended through the core of semiconductors to all aspects of South Korean oil, department stores, education, medical care, and finance, and developed into a behemoth that crisscrossed the entire Korean society.
"The chaebols have controlled South Korea, and the United States has further controlled the chaebols through the Asian financial crisis", and the "Blue House Curse" that has intensified since Park Chung-hee shows the fierce contradictions within South Korean society, and also shows the restrictions faced by successive South Korean presidents when they came to power.
South Korea has held sixteen presidential elections since 1945. Looking at the successive presidents of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, Yoon Hyun Sun, and Choi Gyu-ha, who were ousted from power, Park Chung-hee, who was assassinated, Chun Doo-hwan, Roh Tae-wook, Kim Young-sam, Kim Dae-jung, and Lee Myung-bak, who committed suicide, and Park Geun-hye, who was discredited by his girlfriend,000 who were defeated in politics, none of them all withdrew, and all ended in tragedy.
Iron-clad chaebols flowing president. When the economy is stable, the government can beat the chaebols painlessly, but when the economy declines, the government demands the support of the chaebols to expand production and revitalize the economy. In the past 50 years of love and killing, the South Korean government has been passive. The Blue House curse is applied to every president, and the chaebol is still that chaebol, passed down from generation to generation.
South Korea's president has not had a good ending since he moved into the Blue House. South Korea's "Sky Daily" website published an article saying that many Korean folklore experts believe that the Blue House is located in the fierce land, suppressing the "dragon vein" flowing from Innosan and Baekyue Mountain to Seoul City.
Some people believe that this place is suitable as a burial place, not suitable for living, and the fate of successive Korean presidents in exile, assassination, imprisonment, and suicide is associated with the feng shui of the Blue House.
The Feng Shui dilemma of the Blue House
The Blue House is backed by South Korea's famous mountain, Beiyue Mountain. According to feng shui, beiyue mountain has the green dragon - Luo Mountain on the left and the white tiger on the right - Renwang Mountain, which is the center of the Korean Peninsula mountain range that meanders down from Baekdu Mountain, which is called the treasure land of feng shui.
So, why has such a treasure land of feng shui become a fierce land?
According to legend, in 1927, in order to insult Korea, the Japanese also played a small game when establishing the Governor's Palace of Korea: first destroyed all the buildings in the back garden of Gyeongbokgung Palace except Goyungol, and established the residence of the Governor of Korea; and then in the layout setting, the Palace could not be seen from the street direction after the completion of the Governor's Palace.
The reason why the Japanese did this was because they wanted to destroy the imperial dragon vein of the former Lee dynasty of Korea, and nailed iron stakes of about 8 meters long on important mountain ranges in the east, west, south, and north of Korea, in order to cut off the "dragon vein" of South Korea, in a vain attempt to make Korea never turn over. This is still regarded by Koreans as a symbol of humiliation in history.
What is even more exaggerated is that tens of thousands of iron stakes have been nailed to all important mountain ranges such as the Taibai Mountains. Especially on the mountain near Mt. Baekdake in Gyeongbokgung Palace, the royal palace of South Korea, it is densely packed with iron piles.
According to the analysis of The Korean Feng Shui master, the Luo Mountain on the east side of the Blue House is surrounded by stars and five yellows, for the lawsuit, right and wrong, prison, ghosts, monsters, big murders, and the flow of years should be the year of the sea. The western side of the road is anti-bow and out of place, and the shape of the mountain is reversed, representing darkness, evil forces, knife wounds, assassinations, etc., and the flow of the year should be ugly. After sitting in the north of the North Yue Mountain, the reverse situation, the shape is poor, representing darkness, trepidation, anxiety, insomnia and uneasiness, and the flow of the year should be Shen Zichen year.
In addition, the roof of the Qingwatai building has blue tiles, and there are no five ridges and six beasts on the roof ridge to suppress, and the Ming Hall does not collect it, and it cannot receive the eight white wangqi, so that the wangqi collapses, and the attack is uncontrollable.
As the political center of South Korea, the Blue House influences the current situation, but due to poor feng shui, the weather is sluggish, and evil and rebellion are taking advantage of the void, there are huge obstacles to the country's independent development, such as the infiltration of the United States into South Korea and the control of the chaebols over South Korea, resulting in the fate of most of the rulers and the miserable scenery.
Compared with the Blue House, Gwanghwamun is the blessed land of South Korea's rise. The Blue House is only a small pattern of feng shui, and Gwanghwamun (Gyeongbokgung Palace) is the real big feng shui, the big pattern. Gwanghwamun is impartial, three points and one line, back to the highest point, front step on Suzaku Mountain, neutral palace. It is located on mount Baekdu and stands on the line of nature. The Blue House, on the other hand, deviates from the center point and loses the big picture.
In addition, the highest peak of Mount Baekdu is about 800 meters above sea level, which belongs to the "Taizu Mountain" in feng shui, but the right side of the dragon vein of the Blue Wattage is blown by the wind, and the vertical direction of the Blue Wattage is roughly the positive needle of the C direction of the Mountain, which is suspected of three empty deaths, and is located in the belt water, resulting in short water and long water. The vertical direction of the Gwanghwamun, just through the belt water center of the Han River, is the due north-south direction, the noon direction of the Zishan Mountain, to the upward triad, the liwang direction, the crown belt, the Linguan water, the decline, the sick water.
Since since the founding head Of State Syngman Rhee, there have not been many South Korean presidents who have had a good ending, and there is a problem with the blue tile typhoon in South Korea, and the current president Moon Jae-in and the president-elect Yoon Seok-yue have taken "becoming president of Gwanghwamun" as a general election commitment and want to move out of the blue house.
However, Moon Jae-in has been delayed due to relocation costs and security security, and has not been able to realize his wish to "become the president of Gwanghwamun". But in fact, Moon does not have many offices in the Blue House.
As his successor, Yin Xi, the relocation of the presidential palace from the Blue House to Gwanghwamun was the first political reform that Yin Xiyue called for an end to the "imperial presidential era" during his campaign.
According to him, "I will start working at Gwanghwamun from my first day in office (May 10). "I have been thinking about how to move the South Korean presidential office out of the Blue House, and a relocation working group has been set up to arrange the relocation of the Blue House without stopping."
However, the question arises: First, when Yoon Seok-yue comes to power, can Moon Jae-in get rid of the "Blue House Curse"?
If the South Korean presidential palace is successfully moved to Gwanghwamun, does it mean the end of the Blue House mission?
For now, Moon has nearly two months to go in power, and there are at least two cards to play: epidemic prevention and amnesty for Lee Myung-bak, which may provide a turnaround for him to get rid of the "Blue House curse".
Although Moon Jae-in is about to step down, Moon's approval rating is still higher than that of President-elect Yoon Seok-wook, and it is significantly ahead of all the presidents of South Korea at the end of the administration, and Moon's ruling party has 172 seats in the South Korean Parliament, which is Moon's current advantage.
In 2020, Moon Jae-in took decisive anti-epidemic measures, once making South Korea a "model of anti-epidemic", last year because of improper employment led to the current rebound of the epidemic in South Korea, if in the last two months, Moon Jae-in to do a good job of "anti-epidemic" and maintain his reputation, Yin Xiyue will be difficult to do to Moon Jae-in.
In addition, since Moon's Common Democratic Party occupies most of the seats in south Korea's parliament, resulting in Ono Dai, yoon Seok-wook recently wanted to ask for amnesty for former conservative president Lee Myung-bak in order to promote national unity. Moon can use this as a political bargaining chip in exchange for Yoon Seok-yue stopping the "liquidation" of the Moon government.
As for whether the Blue House will dilute the historical stage, it is not very clear at present, and it may be used as the office of South Korea's special supervision agency or as a reception center for private visits.
Yoon Seok-yue said during his campaign: "The new presidential palace will be built in the Seoul Government Building in Gwanghwamun, thus returning the existing Land for the Blue House to the people." Citizens can often see the president. The president also communicates frequently with the people. ”
He has now embarked on "deconstructing" the Blue House and is committed to reducing the number of people on the Blue House by 30 percent. On the first day of work, Yin Xiyue announced that he would abolish the Chief Office of civil affairs of the Blue House, completely excluding intelligence investigations and other business from the work of the Blue House.
Where does South Korea go from here? What will happen to Moon Jae-in?? Will the Blue House Spell ever reappear? Let's wait and see.