At 11:00 a.m. local time on May 10, at the inauguration ceremony of the 20th South Korean President held in the National Assembly Hall in Seoul, South Korea's new president, Yoon Seok-wook, was officially sworn in, and at the same time Moon Jae-in also handed over presidential power to Yoon Seok-yue and officially stepped down as president.
(Moon Jae-in has stepped down as President of South Korea)
Because South Korea has always had a "presidential curse" in the past, few of the former presidents who took office after the founding of the Republic of Korea have had a good ending, and Park Geun-hye is lucky because she has ended her imprisonment by receiving a pardon from Moon Jae-in. So after Moon's term ended, the media from all walks of life focused on the outgoing president, and sure enough, on the first day after leaving office, Moon Jae-in's negative news came.
(The Blue House Curse, it seems that the South Korean people can't wait for a day, and Moon Jae-in's first day of stepping down will be difficult)
According to a report by The Korea Daily on May 11, more than 2,600 South Korean citizens jointly reported Moon to the Daejeon Local Prosecutor's Office on May 10, asking the relevant departments to thoroughly investigate Moon Jae-in's possible "abuse of power" in the past in the process of implementing the "de-nuclear power" policy.
(Moon's 40% approval rating when he left office was not bad, but the bad news has come out.)
2,600 citizens wrote a special whistleblower letter to this end, saying that "in order to fulfill the promise of 'going to nuclear power early' made when he ran for president as soon as possible, Moon Jae-in undermined the expected plan in 2019 through abuse of power, shut down unit 1 of the Yuecheng nuclear power plant in advance, and forcefully interrupted the construction process of existing new nuclear power facilities, resulting in the collapse and bankruptcy of a large number of Local Korean small and medium-sized enterprises relying on the nuclear power industry, which increased the burden on the people."
South Korea is a small country, but densely populated, due to energy scarcity, South Korea is more dependent on nuclear power generation, nuclear power density is also among the highest in the world. South Korean nuclear power began to develop in the 1950s and is now one of the very few countries in the world that has developed its own third-generation nuclear power technology (endorsed by the United States). However, due to the relatively old nuclear power plants currently operated in South Korea, coupled with the concerns about whether a nuclear accident will occur in South Korea after the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan (South Korea's small territory, once a nuclear accident may mean that it will cause huge social impact), South Korean President Moon Jae-in began to actively promote denuclearization and firepower reduction plans after taking office, and in the future South Korea hopes to transform into a clean energy country for new energy power generation, mainly relying on wind power and photovoltaic power generation.
(South Korea's nuclear power technology ranks among the best in the world.
However, South Korea's "denuclearization" is not an easy task, by the end of 2021, South Korea still has 24 nuclear reactors in operation, ranking fifth in the world, South Korea's total power generation is about 30% dependent on nuclear power plants to generate electricity, the power loss rate is staggering 3.6%, the lowest in the world (the average nuclear power loss rate of the world OECD countries is 6.4%), which means that South Korea has been very dependent on nuclear power, once the energy transformation in a short period of time "denuclearization", It will have a serious impact on social operation and economic development.
The Moon Jae-in government had planned to reduce 24 nuclear reactors to 14 by 2038 and completely achieve the goal of denuclearization by 2060, but at the beginning of the plan, Moon Jae-in was impatient to try to shut down the nuclear power plant, and in 2017, the First Unit of the Guri Nuclear Power Plant was removed from service early, and in the same year, the Moon Jae-in government also announced that it would plan to stop the construction of Units 5 and 6 of the Guri Nuclear Power Plant, but because most South Koreans strongly opposed the shutdown of the units, they had no choice but to give up. However, due to the three-month delay in construction, the Moon Jae-in government was reported and claimed by the construction manufacturers.
(Unit 1 of the Guri Nuclear Power Plant, which was shut down during Moon's tenure)
In 2019, the Moon Jae-in government shut down unit one of the Yuecheng nuclear power plant, which is the second unit in South Korea to be shut down, and the public also strongly opposed it, but in the end the protest was ineffective, so that today's South Korean people began to doubt whether there was a suspicion of "abuse of power" in the first place that Moon Jae-in shut down the nuclear power plant unit so forcefully.
At present, the Daejeon Local Procuratorate has not responded to the people's joint report, nor has it announced that it will investigate Moon Jae-in on this incident, and everything needs to be followed up later.
Then again, after the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, global energy is tight, and many countries seem to have once again signaled a re-embrace of nuclear power, such as the European Union, in addition to South Korea's plans to change future energy policies. On May 3, An Chul-so, a member of the South Korean Presidential Transition Committee, released the new South Korean government's governance vision, which clearly emphasized that "the new South Korean government will overthrow the 'denuclearization' policy implemented by the Moon Jae-in government in the past", and the new government will continue to maintain the operation of nuclear power plants and restart the construction of units 3 and 4 of the new Hanwei nuclear power plant, so that South Korean nuclear power can be further upgraded.
South Korea's new energy program and relaunching nuclear power mean that one of the major achievements of Moon's tenure will be wiped out, and it may even be a prosecutor's office investigation.