The road to revenge of former South Korean President Moon Jae-in, South Korea's last conscientious president?
Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in left office for several months, and unlike the retirement life after the presidents of other countries left office, Moon Jae-in's retirement life was actually not good, demonstrations and protests, and he was prosecuted for abuse of power.
Before today's story officially begins, let me digress to you, on October 29, 2020, South Korea's media large and small have only one headline, that is, former President Lee Myung-bak, a 78-year-old man, sentenced to 17 years in prison. He also officially served his sentence three days later.
(Lee Myung-bak)
What is the reason why a 78-year-old man, the former president of South Korea, was punished so heavily after retirement?
This drama that the Korean regime has been going on for years, I will unveil it for you!
Three leading actors and one special guest actor, Moon Jae-in, Lee Myung-bak, Roh Moo-hyun and special guest Park Geun-hye! And that's where the story begins.
As I have said in previous articles, South Korea's chaebols interfere with the regime and play with human rights to the point of being bizarre, and even manipulate the president to become a puppet and fish the people.
It looks a bit similar to that kind of urban cool text, but in fact it is just a corner of the iceberg of the dark world, and the four presidents mentioned above start with President Roh Moo-hyun.
(Roh Moo-hyun)
The beginning of the matter began in 2004, when the 16th President Roh Moo-hyun was first impeached and removed from office, and the lawmakers who voted for and against Roh Moo-hyun in that year fought for it, such a serious event certainly accelerated Roh's ouster.
Of course, it was more of a chaebol behind the covers, and finally at the voting site, the opposition impeached Roh Moo-hyun with a high vote, and the 16th president of South Korea officially stepped down.
You know, zero years is also the era of South Korean chaebols, especially at that time, almost all mainstream media are also pro-chaebols, Roh Moo-hyun during the administration of South Korea's economy has been maintaining a growth rate of more than 4 percent, and at that time South Korea and North Korea relations were still relatively relaxed, but Roh Moo-hyun offended the chaebols and the media, how can this let you go?
When Roh Moo-hyun stepped down, the second protagonist also appeared, that is, Lee Myung-bak of the chaebol faction, this poor teenager from the bottom, daring to fight when he was a student, to the legend of salarymen, all the way to the top chaebol in the business world, and finally becoming a puppet president controlled by the chaebol.
Who would have thought that he also said in the book "Managing the Future", "It is poverty that teaches me to be good at learning, and it also teaches me to calmly think about life and the meaning of society." ”
The boy who slayed the dragon eventually became an evil dragon, Lee Myung-bak was poor when he was young, relied on his own work-study to enter college, fought the competitors of the student union of capital, refused bribery, succeeded by hard work, led demonstrations against the Korea-Japan talks, because after being imprisoned for this matter, he came out and found a job and wrote to the then president Park Chung-hee (Park Geun-hye's father), and later entered the modern engineering company, with a sharp mind step by step, all the way to the mayor of Seoul, and then to the president.
But such a person who should be full of a sense of justice has become the murderer of Roh Moo-hyun.
When Lee Myung-bak came to power, he was already a chaebol faction, and the first thing he did when he took power was to take revenge, because Roh Moo-hyun was not soft on the chaebols when he was in power, and when Roh Moo-hyun stepped down, would the chaebol faction still treat Roh Moo-hyun with good food and drink?
So with Lee Myung-bak's chaebol faction, he began to thoroughly investigate Roh Moo-hyun, but it turned out that Roh Moo-hyun was too clean to find out anything when he was in power, and when he was at a loss, Lee Myung-bak thought of investigating the people around Roh Moo-hyun, are you okay with the people around you?
(Kwon Yang-sook (left) and Roh Moo-hyun (right))
As a result, a few days later, Lee Myung-bak found several huge sums of money of unknown origin on Roh Moo-hyun's human rights and brother Lu Jianping, and the evidence of his wife's corruption was conclusive, even if Roh Moo-hyun repeatedly stated that he did not know, but would people believe it?
Roh Moo-hyun was suspected, and because he had already offended the mainstream media, Roh Moo-hyun was targeted by the mainstream media when he was in office, which made Roh Moo-hyun, who valued his reputation, under the pressure and severely damaged his spirit, and Lee Myung-bak's political revenge on him also implicated many of Roh's relatives and friends.
Roh Moo-hyun felt that he had harmed the people closest to him, and finally jumped off the cliff on the side of the mountain, ending his life.
Later people found such a sentence in his autobiography.
(Roh Moo-hyun's autobiography "It's Destiny")
On the other hand, Moon Jae-in is extremely saddened by the death of his good brother, and they are also teachers and friends, and it is even more difficult to know themselves.
Moon Jae-in has been said to be a North Korean defector since he was a child (officially meaning North Korean defector), discriminated against, and ranked first in school but was said to be second by the school, just because the school did not want to defect first.
Later, his dream of becoming a prosecutor also failed for various reasons, so Moon Jae-in retreated to become a lawyer, and Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in also met in a lawsuit, saw each other late, and later co-opened a law firm for free for ordinary people.
The 96-year-old Sino-Korean fishing boat vendetta case that shocked the world was also fought by Moon Jae-in to defend six Chinese crew members under the pressure of surging public opinion, so that five of the six were changed from death to life and worked with mainland lawyers to vindicate the Chinese people, just for the word "justice" in his heart.
(Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun)
Later, in order to achieve greater ambitions, Roh Moo-hyun chose to enter politics and rise all the way to the presidency, and because of his previous experiences, Roh Moo-hyun himself is a very clean president and a president who is committed to the development of South Korea.
Although Moon Jae-in is not cold to politics, in order to help his best friend, Moon Jae-in finally came to the Blue House as secretary general after his friend became president, came to the most trusted position of the president to be on duty, became Roh Moo-hyun's right hand man, and even because of the close relationship between the two, Moon Jae-in also won the title of "Shadow of Roh Moo-hyun".
(Roh Moo-hyun (right) served as South Korea's president, with Moon Jae-in (left) serving as secretary-general to the president.) ）
But Moon Jae-in himself was not interested in being an official or anything, let alone participating in those deceitful struggles, and Moon Jae-in stepped down after a year in office.
Here we can also know that Moon Jae-in is not a person who attaches great importance to his career.
Roh Moo-hyun did a lot for South Korea during his administration, rectifying bureaucracy and cracking down on chaebols, and indeed did a lot for that justice, but at the same time, he also offended too many forces, offending the chaebols and mainstream media too much.
When Roh Moo-hyun left office, he was accused of corruption and bribery, and the so-called stolen money of $1 million was after Roh Moo-hyun's wife took out a $1 million IOU, and the mainstream media and prosecutors exerted pressure on him to unforgivingly target, and at the same time severely persecuted Roh Moo-hyun's relatives and friends, which led to Roh Moo-hyun finally having no choice but to prove his innocence to the world by jumping off a cliff.
Moon Jae-in is devastated by the death of his friend, and he is determined to return to politics, knowing that only by doing politics can he avenge his friend and let the evil lie in place.
He immediately re-ran for parliament, because of the help of his friends and supporters, as well as his own good qualifications, Moon Jae-in was soon elected to the parliament, and he set his sights on the president of South Korea, only in this way can Lee Myung-bak be brought to the presidency for the first time in 12 years, but Moon Jae-in failed, and he narrowly lost to Park Geun-hye.
Lee Myung-bak escaped first by a narrow margin, and later found out after investigation that when Moon Jae-in was campaigning, the president of the National Intelligence Institute at the time instructed people to interfere in the election results, and even mobilized personnel to spread Moon Jae-in's negative public opinion, confusing voters to audition, plus Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak complicit, after all, Lee Myung-bak is not stupid, if Moon Jae-in is in charge of himself, it will be over.
Lee Myung-bak himself is a puppet president, which immediately shows support for Park Geun-hye, of course, Park Geun-hye must also have the shadow of a chaebol behind her, and the subsequent political intervention incident and the many mistakes of Park Geun-hye's administration are also some of the reasons for her early layoff.
Mr. Moon was undeterred, and the incident made him increasingly hate South Korea's corrupt political situation.
It wasn't until 17 years, when the Ganzhengmen incident broke out, Park Geun-hye stepped down, and the dragons were leaderless, that Moon Jae-in took the presidency two months after the early presidential election.
And this may also be Moon Jae-in's last swan song.
The revenge plan that he had planned for his brother for years slowly surfaced, and all the way to the presidency, Moon Jae-in never left himself a way back.
Soon after becoming president, Moon Jae-in re-supervised the policy of the "Four Great Rivers" project under Lee Myung-bak, although on the surface, the project was too hasty to feel that it was normal government administration, but the plain meaning is, you are finished!
The Four Great Rivers were a major water conservancy project during Lee Myung-bak's administration, when Lee Myung-bak started the project despite public obstruction, and let the 22 trillion won project start, which left a handle in haste.
Sure enough, the tofu dregs project was listed as one of the five worst wetland projects in 2012 by international organizations, and the initial superficial findings were only material problems.
But how could Moon not catch you Lee Myung-bak?
Moon Jae-in specially set up an investigation team, and in this investigation, more than 10 charges such as Lee Myung-bak's abuse of power, tax evasion and evasion, embezzlement and bribery of more than 40 million yuan were discovered, and the evidence was conclusive and indefensible!
Perhaps knowing his fate and results, Li Mingbo took the initiative to walk out of the door and get into the car of the procuratorate, that teenager had suffered a lot, determined to be a dragon slayer, obviously a righteous person, but finally lived to be the most hated person when he was young!
(Before Lee Myung-bak was transferred to the detention center, he said goodbye to his relatives)
Moon Jae-in got revenge, after Lee Myung-bak was arrested, 20 hours of continuous interrogation made Lee Myung-bak, a white-headed old man, unable to eat at all, Moon Jae-in was too angry, he only had the word revenge in his heart at that time, for the sake of this ten years of planning, even if Lee Myung-bak voiced to the outside world that Moon Jae-in was avenging Roh Moo-hyun's affairs, but at that time Moon Jae-in was in power, and Lee Myung-bak had no way.
The 207-page indictment is more than the 100 pages she had when Park stepped down.
And Moon Jae-in's means of cleaning up Lee Myung-bak are also the same as Lee Myung-bak's means of cleaning up Roh Moo-hyun at the beginning, how ironic, it is so realistic that the dragon slayer will eventually become an evil dragon!
Eleven years after jumping off a cliff, Moon Jae-in avenged his friend, but Moon's revenge plan is not over.
The "Victory Gate" incident revealed the dirty and corrupt side of the collusion between the Korean entertainment industry and the chaebols, allowing ordinary people to get a glimpse, taking this opportunity, Moon Jae-in ordered a comprehensive and thorough investigation of the Korean entertainment industry, and the disgusting behavior of the entertainment industry and the chaebols has long been well known, which is the first shot Moon Jae-in fired at the chaebols.
He said: "I am willing to gamble on fate to investigate to the end."
How difficult it is to bring down the chaebol Moon Jae-in certainly knows that its tree has deep roots and is not a behemoth that Moon Jae-in can shake shortly after taking office, but Moon Jae-in still did it, Zhang Ziyan committed suicide for 13 years, the persecuted people in the Victory Gate, the political layer controlled by the chaebols, various suicide actresses, young people.
In 21 years, Lee Jae-yong, the only son of Lee Kun-hee, the head of Samsung, was imprisoned and sent by Moon Jae-in, even if he was subsequently threatened and coerced by various means, he was released not long after, but will Lee Jae-yong think that he will go to prison with his own status?
Moon Jae-in has done so that his family has been emigrated, and all he has to do is give it a go, and there is no turning back from the first shot.
How many people he has offended over the years has lost count, and it is not clear how many evil bullets will be fired at him after stepping down, and now that the investigation of Moon Jae-in has begun, the funny thing is that there is no corruption, only the abuse of power forcibly detained, maybe avenging his brother will become a handle, but Moon Jae-in is no longer afraid.
The 1 million IOU chaebols who had slandered Roh Moo-hyun could not be found, and had to find another way.
We don't know how much conscience Moon Jae-in, this warrior who shot at the chaebols, can awaken his conscience with his own methods, but his retrograde courage is worth learning from, learning to move forward bravely against injustice and oppression.
Hats off to those who burn candlelight in the dark!