On May 10, the inauguration of the 20th President of South Korea was held in front of the National Assembly Building in Seoul, where Yoon Seok-woo gave a passionate inaugural speech, and the two most eye-catching guests were undoubtedly Moon Jae-in and Park Geun-hye, two former presidents.
It is rare for three Presidents of South Korea to be in the same frame. It is worth noting that Kim Young-wook, the wife of another president, Lee Myung-bak, also appeared at the scene and greeted Park Geun-hye. Considering the complex relationship between several people, what they really feel in their hearts, outsiders have no way of knowing.
After the ceremony, Moon immediately left in a car and prepared to return to his hometown for the elderly. Before leaving, Yin Xiyue shook hands with Moon Jae-in to say goodbye, and under Yin Xiyue's bowing eyes, Moon Jae-in's car slowly left.
Those who do not know the inside story still think that the relationship between these two people is a well-connected predecessor, but they do not know that just a week ago, the political party to which the two belonged was still fighting over the abolition of the procuratorial system's investigative power.
Sending off his predecessor, Yoon Seok-yue went to the president's office in the Ministry of Defense building in Yongsan, Seoul, to start his first day as president. He made history for South Korea's first president not to work on the Blue House. The new president, who has been a prosecutor for more than 20 years, personally sent two former presidents to prison and can be said to be an important contributor to the "Blue House Curse".
In any case, Yin Xiyue made good on a promise at the beginning of his rise to power: to open the Blue House to the public on May 10. Koreans who had been waiting outside the Blue House early in the morning poured into this mysterious place with strange "magic spells" as soon as the Blue House opened its doors. After 74 years, for the first time, ordinary Koreans have been able to get a glimpse of the true face of the Blue House.
Moving the president's office away from the Blue House is not known to be the first step for Yin Xiyue to pave the way for her happy retirement after 5 years. At least so far, the outgoing Moon feels like he's about to start a happy retirement. After working the day before, he and his wife walked away from the Blue House and said at a resignation ceremony prepared for him by supporters that no president in the past had had such a beautiful moment of leaving office.
On the 10th, when he left Seoul by train, Moon Jae-in said that he had been liberated as a free man, but he stressed at the end that although he could not guarantee that his body would not be bound by the situation, his heart and spirit would soar freely. It can also be seen from this that in the context of the few people in the predecessors who escaped the "Blue House Curse", whether he could escape the disaster of imprisonment or not, he had no bottom in his heart.
Compared with South Korea's previous presidents, Moon Jae-in did his best before leaving office, in part, he risked damage to his reputation and forcibly deprived the prosecutorial system of its investigative powers, so as to avoid the new president of the procuratorial system, Yoon Seok-yue, who came to power, to carry out a political hunt for himself and the party behind him.
Moon had to make such a deployment. During the campaign period, Yin Xiyue made it clear that he would liquidate the shortcomings of the previous government. Yin Xiyue's newly nominated minister of justice, Han Dongxun, when the Common Democratic Party promoted the deprivation of the procuratorial system of its investigative powers, explicitly objected, saying that after hundreds of years of development, the current procuratorial system has not needed to be innovated, and all that needs to be done is to catch the bad guys. Many have interpreted it as a letter of war for Yoon Seok-wook to Moon Jae-in and the Common Democratic Party.
Han Dong-hoon was an absolute confidant of Yoon Seok-wook, who, during his time as prosecutor, handled several major cases together, including the "government gate" that pulled Park Geun-hye off the horse. Not surprisingly, after Han Dongxun takes office, he will likely control the two key departments of justice and procuratorate. The bill passed by the Common Democratic Party on May 3 to abolish the investigative powers of the prosecutorial system is still some time away from being formally implemented. Yin Xiyue still has a lot of room for maneuvering.
In addition, the UDP bill merely transfers the investigative powers of the procuratorial system to the police system, and there are already fears in South Korea that South Korea will change from a "procuratorial republic" to a "police republic." Who can guarantee that the South Korean police system will not become another tool of political struggle, as the procuratorial system has.
Looking back, Moon Jae-in's sentence before leaving, "Although there is no guarantee that the body is not bound by the current situation, but the heart and spirit will soar freely" is really meaningful.