South Korea's chaebols are powerful, and now their asset income has accounted for 70% of South Korea's GDP with the support of the state, you heard right, ten groups control 70% of the country's GDP, and its underground darkness is even worse!
But at the beginning of the article, I will first give you a popular science about what a chaebol is.
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After reading the introduction of the chaebol, let's return to the main topic, why is the president of South Korea a puppet? Why can South Korean chaebols dictate the direction of the country?
Let's start from the beginning!
In the 50s and 60s of the last century, South Korea and Singapore were actually similar to our economic development, but in 70-80, its economy developed by leaps and bounds and quickly stepped into the ranks of newly industrialized countries, at this time you can say that the leaders of South Korea have a unique vision, you can also say that South Korea has adapted to current events, but is this really the case?
In the 60s, South Korea's main products came from its own light industry and consumer goods, but how low was the profit to the country? At least to support the economy of the entire country, it is not enough.
Under these circumstances, the South Korean government at that time tried to change the country's overall economic structure and develop heavy industry, and if the government developed itself, multi-front operations would be exhausted, so it thought of local and large enterprises that already had a certain scale at that time.
In order to achieve rapid economic recovery and strength development, the South Korean government at that time made a shocking decision, large enterprises consolidated, small enterprises abandoned, the government undertook projects, provided support to large enterprises, and even helped provide guarantees.
With the financial support, the chaebol group was slowly established, although the rapid gathering and rise of the chaebol did provide a very important driving force for South Korea's industrial expansion, and also made the purpose of transforming South Korea's industrial structure achieved, but .... The chaebols have also achieved their goal of accumulating wealth through the government!
The birth of the Korean chaebol is deformed, he is the poison that the government supports against itself, the South Korean government originally wanted to let the chaebol develop, and in the end, it controlled the power and controlled everything, thinking that as long as the oligarchs were controlled, they could regulate the economy and other measures, but the chaebols are not fools, how can they be at your mercy!
Although the peaceful situation between the two also lasted for many years, originally you earned money, and the rest of the initiative was in the hands of the state, and you could still accept it, but in the early nineties, the chaebol began to elect as a parliamentarian, or to support a puppet who could maximize profits as a parliamentarian.
The South Korean government is not stupid, and of course it is aware of the seriousness of the problem, and when it finds that the status of the chaebols is somewhat exalted, and their hands are stretched too long, they begin to suppress them, but the economy is being held, and these remedies are minimal.
Especially after several generations of accumulation, government support and help, themselves quickly gathered funds, South Korea's chaebols soared, whether it is the wealth or interpersonal relationships, have reached an unprecedented level, the top ten chaebols monopolize South Korea's aviation, energy, heavy industry or an important field, if the chaebols disintegrate and go bankrupt, South Korea's economy will at least regress for decades or more.
The chaebol is not something you can carry as an ordinary person, what is the dark side of the chaebol?
In 2012, South Korea's chaebols reached their heyday, and in a word: "Money can indeed do whatever you want!" ”
Hanjin Group, one of the top ten chaebols, at its peak owned 12 large enterprises such as shipping, shipping, airport, land, etc., founder Cho Chung-hoon died in 02, and the eldest son Cho Yangho took over the group's most important company, Korean Air.
(From left to right: eldest daughter Zhao Xian'e, eldest son Zhao Yuantai, Zhao Liangho and second daughter Zhao Xianmin)
Why mention this family first, this story we slowly introduced!
Zhao Liangho's eldest daughter Zhao Xian'e traveled on her own flight when she was 14 years old, and the plane had just started taxiing to the runway, Zhao Xian'e suddenly got angry and made the plane turn around, and also went to the boarding room to drive the purser and others down, and the plane was delayed by 20 minutes.
This series of sudden stories is only because the flight attendant did not ask for instructions, and then did not take apart the nuts and bring the pulp, but sent Ms. Zhao a whole bag, causing Ms. Zhao to be angry!
Although he reluctantly apologized, the next year Zhao Xian'e was sentenced to one year in prison for violating the aviation law, but the result was that the second instance was told that the crime was not established, but sentenced to ten months in prison, suspended for two years, and finally easily released in court, Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, people also helped his father pass the flame.
This may not highlight the tactics of the chaebols, and there is more, you continue to look.
This family is really not treating people as people, more and more arrogant, Zhao Liangho's wife Li Mingji, throwing flower pots, throwing scissors, punching and kicking are commonplace,
(Below are some everyday conversations)
Zhao Yuantai, the son of Zhao Chongxun, violated traffic rules and injured the traffic police to escape, disliked the nearly eighty-year-old old man to cross the street slowly, pushed the old man to hospitalize him for 5 days, and went to the back door to study at his own university.
Do you want to ask why those employees don't speak up? The government does not speak? No way, people also have their own people in the government, employees will have no work as soon as they speak, and the Korean population has few job opportunities, especially working in such a large enterprise, just kidding, can you find a job if you lose it, right?
It was not until the outbreak of the Zhang Ziyan incident in 09 that the shady methods of the chaebols were revealed to a very small part, but they were already shocking.
In 11 years, her suicide note was exposed, and in 05-09, Zhang Ziyan was asked by the economic company to provide more than 30 people such as the group to which the chaebol belonged, the senior management of some institutions, the head of the performing arts company, and the media executive, and was even forced to serve more than four men at the same time!
Zhang Ziyan once cried to a good friend that she was not as good as a red dust woman, on average she had to accompany "guests" four times a day, take aphrodisiacs, and even "milk powder", and her mother's death day was also required to accompany "guests", just before Zhang Ziyan committed suicide, the company also asked her to do a ligation and deprive her of her right to be a mother, just for those "guests" to worry free!
The government is powerless to return to heaven, how can ordinary people deal with it?
The unresolved Zhang Ziyan incident may not be enough to explain the darkness of South Korea's chaebols, but we can get a glimpse of the dozens of suicide notes and 200 pages of accusations that exposed the chaebols' numerous evil deeds, and in 18 years, rumors of new witnesses appeared thinking that the case could be cleared, but the result was not resolved.
The two-hundred-page list of complaints also includes Lotte Group Chairman Xin Gehao and son Xin Dongbin.
Two people who are 130 years old together, violated a girl in their twenties at the same time, and also carried out cruel abuse, even Ren Youzai, the former son-in-law of Samsung Group, spoke to Zhang Ziyan many times before his death, although the police said that they would investigate thoroughly, but... Not a single summons ....
The final result is that except for the boss who was fined 24 million won (about more than 120,000 yuan), the other bigwigs were "insufficient evidence" and not suspected.
A girl who was determined to commit suicide and wrote a suicide note, but did not wait for justice ... Only the darkness brought by the boundless big hand!
There is also Lee Jae-yong, the only son of former Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee, who participated in Park Geun-hye's "Ganzhengmen" incident and was arrested for the group's succession rights, and Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to 5 years in August 17, and the lawyer said a shocking sentence in court: "We believe that the ruling will be overturned."
Of course, the script is almost like saying...
On February 5, 18, the sentence was reversed and the sentence of Lee Jae-rong was changed to 2 years and 6 months, suspended for 4 years...
But the most reversed script is that the then-president became Moon Jae-in because of Park Geun-hye's next term, the retrograde person in South Korea who was finally willing to fight the chaebols.
This president who avenged his friend, Roh Moo-hyun, was forced to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff when he came to power because he was vilified for curbing chaebols.
How could you be released if you caught this big fish Lee Jae-yong, so the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the case again, believing that there was a problem with the innocent part of Lee Jae-yong's second trial, and directly retried it!
Okay guys, isn't that more exciting than a TV series?
On 1/18/21, Lee was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. Arrest in court.
Do you think you can safely transform the sewing machine when you go in? Wrong, for the Korean chaebols, it's just a change of office, maybe a private office... Everything that should be there...
Although Moon Jae-in even thought of this aspect and also restricted Lee Jae-yong, but!
Li Zaiyu a horizontal bar, I went directly to recuperate...
And in March, not long after Lee Jae-yong, who underwent a one-month operation in the hospital, was discharged, various forces exerted pressure and directly involved the diplomatic crisis with the United States, saying that if they did not actively support President Biden's efforts, South Korea, as a strategic partner of the United States, would have a crisis!
Good fellow, I didn't know and thought that this was not the boss of the group but the vice president..
Then President Moon had lunch with the four major groups... Then in August '21, Lee was released on parole.
Its chairman, Lee Kun-hee, was sued and reported, and finally released on the grounds of funding South Korea's bid to host the Olympic Games, and other chaebols have more or less these problems, which shows that the influence of the chaebols has penetrated the judicial system.
Celebrities have become tools and chips for the rich to trade, interfere in changing the education system, use power to win over the political level, interfere in politics, run for election, and make profits, are the most superficial means of the chaebols, and another actress, Li Eunzhu, also interpreted the cruelty of the chaebols in the humiliation of attending the event, and the dark five hundred minutes
The chaebols rely on the economy to gain political influence, and to train parliamentarians to run for president to gain political discourse, Park Geun-hye's cronies are actually a very small matter for them.
Not long after the Lee Jae-yong affair, Moon fell and was greeted by the liquidation of the next president and the plutocrats
The assassination of Park Chung-hee, Park Geun-hye's cronies meddling in politics, Roh Moo-hyun's suicide, Moon Jae-in's ouster, and the new puppet president taking office are all shadows of chaebols who kidnapped South Korean politics, started with the government, and finally extended their claws to the government.
All South Korean presidents are not allowed to die well, chaebols are the biggest factor, imprisonment, house raids, death sentences, discredit, or imprisonment, etc., even if your president is clean, you can hardly protect the hearts of the cronies around you, such as Park Chung-hee is one of the examples, Roh Moo-hyun was also pitted by his wife, his reputation was ruined, and he died Mingzhi, Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye were also instigated by the chaebols, forcing Roh Moo-hyun to die, and the strength of the chaebols reached its peak again when Lee Myung-bak was in power, and he himself was the president of a country where the chaebol giants became presidents.
It can be seen that the influence of the chaebols has penetrated into the large and small strata of South Korea, and the intrigues and intrigues of the three presidents are inseparable from the agitation and support of the chaebols!
If it is not stopped or changed, South Korea's political level may still have many detours and become even more deformed!