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As we all know, the South Korean chaebols almost single-handedly cover the sky in South Korea, and their power is so huge that ordinary people can't imagine it.
Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who has been sentenced many times and has been amnestied again and again; Later, there was Rakuten founder Sin Gehao, who openly used Japanese in court and still had the privilege of not being arrested even if he was sentenced!
The South Korean chaebols have covered the sky with one hand, but they have not been satisfied with the status quo and committed various crimes! But even if everyone knows that chaebols are a national cancer, they really can't do anything with them.
No matter how many charges there are, the chaebols are still safe and sound, and no amount of charges will affect their prestige.
However, in Russia, even the big oligarchs who once carried Putin will be liquidated by the Russian government and iron fists when they vainly try to interfere in internal affairs, and even have to flee abroad!
Same chaebol, different ending. Why has Russia been able to liquidate the oligarchs, but South Korea has been unable to solve the chaebol problem?
South Korea's chaebols are in chaos
In 2017, South Korea's Lotte Group broke out a scandal: a family of five was charged, and the reunion went to court!
On weekdays, this family of five often quarreled over the ownership of the group's power, but today they all stand on the united front: they all insist that they are not guilty!
The oldest and most "senior" group founder Sing Gehao was even more angry. As one of the five chaebols, where did he suffer such "humiliation"?
Even at the age of 95, Sin Gehao is still not inferior to the junior in the matter of anger and fire. He kept beating his crutches hard in the courtroom, and insulted at the judge: "Who dares to judge me?!" ”
Singh Ho has lived in Japan for a long time, so when he gets emotional in the courtroom, he often shouts a few words in Japanese, making the already chaotic courtroom even more funny.
In desperation, the staff had to take the emotional Singhao out of the courtroom.
Xin Gehao was charged with illegal operation this time and was sentenced to three years in a rare way. But Singhao was not imprisoned or arrested, and the reason was: he was old and physically inconvenient...
However, Singh Ho did not learn a lesson because of this accusation. He was convicted again the following year, this time on charges of embezzlement and dereliction of duty.
He was also convicted of the crime, and he was sentenced to three years this time and fined three billion won. But as last time, he was not arrested, and the reason remained the same: physical inconvenience.
Singh Ho repeatedly commits serious crimes, but remains safe and sound, inextricably linked to the Lotte Group behind him.
Lotte Group was founded by him. In the last century, South Korean Sin Ngho lived in Japan and founded the Lotte Group in Japan. After a few years of détente between Japan and South Korea, he took the opportunity to move the company's headquarters to South Korea.
The Lotte Group is growing rapidly in both Japan and South Korea, and every Korean and most Japanese is inseparable from the products produced by Lotte in their daily lives.
In 1994, Lotte also entered the mainland market, and the development situation was also improving. However, Lotte's good days on the mainland will soon come to an end.
In 2016, Lotte struck a deal with the South Korean government to sell Lotte's real estate to the government to deploy the THAAD system against the mainland.
The mainland naturally strongly condemned and countered South Korea. The first to resist in the economic field was the Lotte Group. Since then, Lotte Group has gradually faded out of the mainland market.
Even though the Lotte Group has been riddled with scandals and charges in recent years, both in South Korea and overseas, its position in South Korea remains high, and its leaders have shown no remorse for their mistakes.
In fact, every Korean chaebol is like this, and some are even more outrageous than this! South Korea's largest chaebol, Samsung Group, is a good player in this regard!
Samsung founder Li Bingzhe, when Samsung was just a small shop, he hitched a ride with then President Syngman Rhee. With the help of Syngman Rhee, Samsung soon developed into a large enterprise with many factories.
The good times did not last long, Rhee Syngman was secretly calculated by Park Chung-hee to oust, and Park Chung-hee took power.
Although Park Chung-hee has also been helping Samsung, he is not as sincere as Syngman Rhee, and often suppresses openly and covertly.
At that time, Lee Kun-hee became the chairman of Samsung, and his means were better than his father's, and he used various means to win people's hearts: bribed a large number of politicians with funds, and installed cronies in the media. In South Korea at that time, even retired officials could receive bribes from Samsung.
So even though the president intends to suppress it, Samsung's power quickly grows.
Later, some justice media exposed some illegal acts of Samsung, and South Korea was shocked. But Samsung has long ignored this at this time, and even directly refused to meet with the officials who came to investigate!
And Li Jianxi is so arrogant, he has naturally been sentenced, but whether he has been actually punished is very intriguing:
In 1996, his bribery of officials was exposed and he was sentenced to two years of probation. Before he saw what his cell looked like, he was pardoned by the president the following year.
Another time, in 2008, the initial charge was still bribery. But during the investigation, South Korean judicial personnel inexplicably ignored the accusation and focused on Lee Kun-hee's other charge - tax evasion.
As a result, Lee Kun-hee was sentenced to three years in prison, but as before, he was pardoned by the president the following year.
Why South Korea's chaebols are deeply entrenched
Although every Korean knows in his heart what the Korean chaebols are, and hates them to the extreme, he has always been unable to deal with them.
One of the biggest reasons is that South Korean chaebols control the Korean economy!
South Korea's chaebols generate most of South Korea's total GDP, accounting for more than 50% of GDP in just five or six groups. Therefore, some people also say that another name for the Korean economy is "chaebol economy"!
In addition, the manipulation of South Korean chaebols in the political field has also been a practice for many years.
After World War II, in order to develop the domestic economy, the South Korean government took the initiative to promote some shrewd and capable entrepreneurs, support their companies, and was willing to provide them with US dollar foreign exchange.
The time and place are favorable, and the prototype of the Korean chaebol soon appeared. In the sixties of the last century, the chaebol family had begun to take shape, and South Korean President Park Chung-hee tasted the sweetness and continued to increase support for major groups.
However, not every enterprise is entitled to "enjoy" this support. The government has set a special threshold, and only enterprises with the required operating scale are eligible for foreign exchange and low-interest loans provided by the government.
In this way, South Korea's large groups are even more invincible, there is almost no competition, and the journey is smooth. In this way, the power of the South Korean chaebols became more and more expanded, and it was only later that the South Korean government woke up to its direct intervention in politics, but unfortunately it was too late!
In order to maintain their status, the chaebols also intermarried each other and colluded to form an impenetrable network of relationships!
In this way, the government single-handedly supported the South Korean chaebol, but it lifted a stone and shot itself in the foot, making the Korean chaebol become the South Korean cancer today!
Russian oligarchs with Putin's wrists
At the end of the last century, Russia also suffered what happened to South Korea today - all the affairs of the country were manipulated by the seven oligarchs.
As in South Korea, the reason behind this is also the president's tacit approval:
At the end of the last century, Russia was mired in an economic crisis, inflation made the people poor, and the national economy was difficult to maintain. Even so, the oligarchs in Russia live drunkenly because they have money.
But at that time, their hands had not yet penetrated into politics. But soon Yeltsin threw an olive branch - because Yeltsin's national economy was in decline during his reign, and the situation of re-election was worrying, Yeltsin came to win over these oligarchs for his own political future.
The oligarchs aided Yeltsin, and Yeltsin acquiesced to the oligarchs' meddling in politics. So the oligarchs are even more like the sky, and Russia is also agitated by this gang.
The former senior Russian official recalled: "At the peak of the oligarchy, the Russian government was controlled by 7~10 businessmen, who could change the Russian prime minister at will..."
So when Yeltsin was seriously ill and the political circles needed to prepare the next presidential candidate, the oligarchs were naturally not absent: Putin, with the support of the "head of the oligarchs" Berezovsky, transformed from a small spy into the leader of a huge country.
As the oligarchs expected, Putin does have the talent to govern the country. But this time they shot themselves in the foot: after Putin came to power, he announced that he would ruthlessly deal with the chaos of the oligarchy!
The oligarchs are accustomed to being coerced, and where they will put the hairy boy who has just taken office, they immediately formed an opposition. Berezovsky even openly mocked Putin: "I can remove you from power and put a monkey in power!" ”
Putin quickly showed the oligarchs his power with thunderous means: in his second year in power, he sent the oligarchs who once covered the sky with one hand to prison on multiple charges.
And Berezovsky, the head of the most powerful oligarchy, could not deal with Putin, and could only find a way to escape to Britain.
Why South Korea cannot copy Russia's successes
The same accusation, why can the South Korean chaebols get out quickly after sentencing, and the Russian chaebols are forced to flee?
First, there is a difference between the influence of Russian chaebols and those of South Korean chaebols in the country.
The Russian chaebols developed because of Yeltsin's selfish interests, while the South Korean chaebols were supported by the government because they wanted to develop the domestic economy. Therefore, South Korea's chaebols have always supported South Korea's national economy, and if it falls, South Korea's economy will shake with it. The Russian chaebols will not have this effect, they contribute almost nothing to the Russian economy, and their eradication will have no effect.
Moreover, South Korea's chaebols have been pervasive in decades of development, and it is difficult to uproot. The Russian chaebols have only been active for a dozen years, and they are not as tricky as the South Korean chaebols.
Moreover, Russia is sovereign and independent, and South Korea needs to be dependent on the United States. Therefore, if South Korea wants to eradicate the chaebols, it must also look at the face of the United States.
South Korea had to rely on the protection of the US military in wartime to be at ease, and after the war, South Korea still relied on the protection of the United States, wagging its tail behind the United States and begging for mercy. The United States is not a good old man, but secretly uses the South Korean chaebol to manipulate South Korean society.
South Korea's chaebol is the handle of the United States to manipulate South Korea, so it is even more difficult for South Korea to liquidate the chaebol, and the United States will also exert resistance. And Russia's relations with the United States are well known, and naturally they will not stop because of the obstruction of the United States.
epilogue
It can be said that the emergence of South Korea's chaebols is inextricably linked to the government's permissiveness at that time. The South Korean government initially saw the economic benefits brought by the chaebols, but did not consider the future worries at all, and really picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelons.
Up to now, the South Korean government has the consciousness of liquidating the chaebols, and it is also difficult!