When the 22-year-old Park Geun-hye first met Choi Soon, she probably didn't think that the woman in front of her, who was cold and warm, would push her into the abyss of no return. The person you trust the most often hurts you the most, and this statement applies to Park Geun-hye.
In the past, she was the first female president of South Korea, the first democratically elected female head of state in East Asia, and a self-proclaimed "woman married to South Korea" without a husband or children, and almost everyone had high hopes for her.
But the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. After the "girlfriend gate" incident, she became the first president in South Korean history to be impeached and removed from office. In just 10 days, she moved her residence from the spacious Blue House to the 12-square-meter Seoul prison.
Looking at the cold walls around her, she knew she would never go back.
First time I met Choi Soon-sil
As the saying goes: "Happy families are all similar, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes", as Park Chung-hee's daughter, Park Geun-hye lived in the Blue House at the age of 9 and enjoyed the treatment of a princess, but her happy life came to an abrupt end at the age of 22.
In the summer of 1974, Park Geun-hye's mother, Lu Young-so, collapsed on a stage celebrating the 29th anniversary of South Korea's liberation at the sound of a gunshot, and died instantly. Since then, Park Geun-hye has lost her most precious maternal love.
Park Geun-hye was still studying in France at the time, and when she heard the bad news, she gave up her studies and rushed back to her father.
The grief-stricken Park Chung-hee decided not to renew the strings, and his daughter Park Geun-hye took over the duties of "first lady". After that, Park Geun-hye lived like a mother, began to attend various important occasions, and met many political elites and many leaders of the three religions and nine ranks.
Among them, there is a religious person named Choi Tae-min. Choi Tae-min once wrote three letters to Park Geun-hye, in which she said: "The late Ms. Rok Young-so entrusted me with a dream and asked me to help her daughter." ”
This sentence can be said to poke Park Geun-hye's tears, and the death of her mother Lu Young-su has always been a hurdle in her heart, so she wrote back to Choi Tae-min and invited him to the Blue House.
And after Choi Tae-min got her wish and saw Park Geun-hye, she immediately showed amazing acting skills, saying that she was possessed by Lu Young-so's soul, and immediately learned how Lu Young-su spoke and acted, which shocked Park Geun-hye.
Since then, Choi Tae-min has become Park Geun-hye's "spiritual support", and Choi Tae-min's daughter Choi Soon-sil and Park Geun-hye are of the same age and have similar interests, and the two have become good friends who talk about everything. And this Cui Shunshi is the other heroine of the later "girlfriend door" incident.
Such a magic stick suddenly appeared next to her daughter, which gave Park Chung-hee a headache.
But he was also attracted by Choi Tae-min's chattering set and allowed Choi Tae-min to enter and leave the Blue House, while Park Chung-hee always wanted to cultivate Choi Soon-sil's religious power into his own political power. However, he could not wait for that day.
On the evening of October 26, 1979, Park Chung-hee was assassinated in Gongjeong-dong, Seoul, and he went to see Lu Young-so.
When Park Geun-hye learned of her father's death, her whole body froze and her heart was greatly traumatized.
After dealing with the funeral, Park Geun-hye needs to face the major reality that the Blue House, as the president's official residence, can no longer let herself live, and can only live an ordinary life in the future, and as the eldest in the family, she must shoulder the responsibility of being a parent.
In society, various criticisms of Park Chung-hee's tyranny during his lifetime have continued with the death of Park Chung-hee, and Park Geun-hye, as the daughter of a dictator, will inevitably be criticized.
She wrote in her diary: "If I were to live like this again, I would rather choose death. ”
After the death of both parents, Choi Tae-min became Park's "spiritual mentor", and the father and daughter took the opportunity to get closer to Park, encouraging her to cheer up, and sometimes putting on a "pretending to be a ghost" to "comfort" Park.
In the more than ten years that she has faded out of politics, Park Geun-hye has even had more contact with Choi Tae-min's father and daughter than with her sister and brother, and perhaps Park Geun-hye herself does not realize that she is being brainwashed and has become a puppet of Choi Taemin's father and daughter.
Go to politics
1997 was an extremely tumultuous year for South Korea.
Kim Yong-sam's "Republic of Accidents" is on the eve of his resignation, a financial turmoil is sweeping across Asia, and Park Geun-hye, who is determined to devote herself to politics, joined the Grand National Party (Grand National Party) but made the wrong bet, and Lee Hoe-chang, the Grand National Party candidate she admires, loses to Kim Dae-jung.
But to Park Geun-hye's "gratification", although the Grand National Party, as a conservative, has always been in the position of a suppressed opposition party, Park Geun-hye has grown rapidly in the past 10 years, and almost everywhere she goes, there will be votes.
In particular, between 2004 and 2006, Park Geun-hye won 40 consecutive elections on behalf of the Grand National Party, earning her the title of "Queen of Elections."
But most surprisingly, in the 2007 presidential primary, Park Geun-hye unexpectedly lost to Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak. To some extent, all her previous efforts for the Grand National Party have made a "wedding dress" for Lee Myung-bak.
But in this regard, she generously expressed her convincing attitude and continued to accumulate strength to prepare for the next election.
In August 2012, Park Geun-hye, the "Queen of Elections," made a comeback as the party's candidate with a record 86.3 percent support, and four months later defeated Moon Jae-in to become the new president of South Korea and the first female president in South Korea's history.
Park Geun-hye's election was so sensational that public opinion at the time even referred to her as "South Korea's Margaret Thatcher".
Her decade before she entered politics was interpreted as a kind of wise seclusion, with praise pouring in for "the Tiger Girl" and Park Geun-hye's autobiography once sold out.
However, it turns out that the higher the hand, the worse the fall.
And what pushed Park Geun-hye into the abyss was caused by a girl's show of wealth.
[A high-profile female college student who shows off her wealth]
Park Geun-hye would never have imagined that the leak of her best friend's interference in politics would originate from a high-profile show off of wealth by a female college student.
In 2016, a female college student named Jung Weiluo of Ewha Womans University, a famous university in South Korea, posted a photo of herself riding a horse in professional clothes on social platforms. The girl in the photo is riding a horse and is quite heroic.
However, it was not long before someone recognized the horse under Jung's crotch as a top racehorse who had won an award, named "Vitana V", and was worth at least 1.8 billion won. Where did an ordinary female college student get the channel to ride such a horse?
And when someone questioned it, Zheng Weiluo went directly to the line with netizens, mocking that this year's netizens are all old hats and have never seen the world.
It turns out that it is better to converge quickly when you have money.
Zheng Weiluo's college classmates also complained one after another, Zheng Weiluo was recruited by equestrian students, never attended a day of classes, and never handed in homework, but she just didn't fail the course; her mother even dared to call the professor with a phone call to threaten the professor and resign angrily.
And the parent who can force the professor to step down is none other than Park Geun-hye's best friend Choi Soon-sil.
Yes, Jung Wei Luo is Choi Soon-sil's daughter.
After Zheng Weiluo's family background was revealed, the whole school was shocked.
On July 30, 2016, more than 400 university students organized a demonstration against the "degree deal", and five senior faculty members were blocked in the school building for 46 hours.
Under the huge pressure of public opinion, President Choi Kyung-hee took the blame and resigned, becoming the first president to step down before the end of the school's term. But this does not calm the matter, and South Korean netizens continue to increase their efforts to dig into the relationship between Choi Soon-sil and Park Geun-hye.
Sure enough, there was a new discovery.
When a reporter was squatting in Choi Soon-sil's residential area, he found a discarded computer that Choi Soon-sil had entrusted the property to dispose of, and when they brought the computer back, they were surprised to find that there were 44 copies of Park Geun-hye's speech inside!
Moreover, each speech was opened before Park Geun-hye's speech, and it was revised! How could an ordinary person who is not even a civil servant revise the speech that the president wants to deliver?
The conclusion is obvious, Choi Soon-shi has done a good job.
On October 24, 2016, South Korea's JTBC TV station disclosed the matter one by one and showed it to the people of the whole country.
The next day, Park Geun-hye's crisis public relations was dispatched, and Park Geun-hye admitted that she was indeed "deviant" with Choi Soon-sil, and had "consulted" Choi Soon-sil on some documents before, but it was definitely not to the point of interfering in politics.
The association of the "Sewol" incident
Immediately afterwards, an old case was once again revealed, and the spearhead was once again pointed at Park Geun-hye. As early as April 16, 2014, the "Sewol" passenger ship incident occurred in South Korea, among the 476 people on board, 172 people were rescued, 296 people were killed, and 8 people were missing.
And with the in-depth investigation of the case, the truth has become more and more confusing. As soon as the accident occurred, the South Korean Coast Guard did not rush to the rescue immediately, but reported to the Blue House for instructions, and banned nearby fishing boats from searching for and rescuing the Sewol.
It was predicted that the prime time for the rescue would be about 10:17, but Park Geun-hye was secretive, and the search and rescue was ordered at 10:20, but she said that it had to be ordered at 10:20. South Korean officials also falsified the Sewol's trajectory, which was quickly debunked.
Soon, more and more details came to light, and people began to lead the accident to a unique Korean feature - man-made disasters.
For example, the captain of the Sewol, Li, himself has a deep religious background.
On the day of the incident, the crew was temporarily replaced, and when the ship was tilted at an angle of more than 30 degrees, the captain forbade the passengers to evacuate, asking them to stay in the cabin, and instead abandoned the ship with the crew to escape.
Of the four life-saving systems that can accommodate 2,000 people on board, only two lifeboats are open. Coupled with the name Sewol, "Beyond the World", it's hard not to feel that this is a man-made event that dominates.
Who will be in charge?
According to rumors, Choi Tae-min's death was on March 17 of the lunar calendar, and the date of the sinking of the Sewol "April 16" also happened to be March 17 of the lunar calendar, and it is rumored that Park Geun-hye herself was missing in the first seven hours of the incident.
The combination of these several things, I believe that everyone who sees this place will associate a creepy conjecture.
To get back to the point, a full decade has passed since the Sewol incident, and many truths are still being concealed from South Korean officials, but in any case, Park Geun-hye needs to bear important responsibility for the tragedy.
Time goes back to October 2016, this "girlfriend in politics".
No matter what the outside world speculates, Park Geun-hye's attitude is as tactful as ever to protect the friendship between the two, only admitting that there is "consultation" and denying the rest. In order to save face, Cheong Wa Dae said that it would thoroughly investigate Ewha University's admissions problems, etc.
Ms. Park also used the secretary-general as a scapegoat, who she appointed on June 24 despite criticism from the opposition. Two days later, Li Yuanzhong, the chief of staff related to the "girlfriend's interference in politics", and the three presidential secretaries also resigned one after another.
These people are all close confidants of Park Geun-hye, and she is just to abandon the car to protect the handsome at this time, express an attitude of admitting her mistakes, and want to calm things down.
But who wants to stop eating such a big melon.
On November 2, South Korean prosecutors said that Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Group, was suspected of transferring funds to Choi Soon-sil's company and paying a total of 43.3 billion won in bribes in the name of "cultivating her daughter Jung Wei Roma". The aim is to get the South Korean government to allow Samsung C&T to merge with Cheil-Cheil Knitting Co., Ltd. to increase its shareholding in Samsung.
This is interesting, a big chaebol wants to pay bribes, he does not go to South Korean government officials, but to the president's girlfriend, doesn't this show that Choi Soon-sil is one of the real people in the Blue House?
It is also worth mentioning that the prosecutor in charge of investigating this case is the current South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, not to mention what he is now, at least he showed ruthlessness in handling this case at that time, and won the reputation of "national prosecutor".
On November 15, prosecutors found text messages sent to him by Park Geun-hye from Chung Ho-sung, a former secretary attached to the Blue House, about several official incidents, and Park Geun-hye asked, "Have you confirmed with Ms. Choi (Choi Soon-sil)?" and "Hurry up and confirm."
In addition, there is a recording of a phone call between Choi Soon-sil and Jung Ho-sung, in which Choi Soon-sil instructed Park Geun-hye: "It is better to visit the state council after a state meeting" and so on. Now, the "girlfriend in politics" is completely solid.
Park Geun-hye is like a puppet at the mercy of Choi Soon-sil, and everything has to be discussed with Choi Soon-sil first.
The National Assembly of South Korea quickly passed a bill to establish an investigation team, with 20 prosecutors and 40 civil servants dispatching the investigation team, a record high. Although the South Korean parliament has acted quickly, public discontent has burned to its peak by this time.
Since Park Geun-hye came to power, she has connived at the chaebol and colluded with officials and businessmen, revised textbooks to beautify the history of the Japanese occupation period and the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, and THAAD's entry into South Korea, which brought the relations between the DPRK and the ROK and China and the ROK to a freezing point, all of which have smashed a series of titles before Park Geun-hye came to power, and her approval rating has dropped to an unprecedented 4 percent, and the people's long-standing anger has finally fermented to the highest point.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets holding candles to protest Ms. Park's mediocre rule, and the procession spread from Seoul to the rest of the country, marching and singing songs, unbeknownst they thought they were holding a concert.
And in the middle of the crowd, there was a beam of light that was particularly bright, an old man with glasses and kind eyes, standing with the people, holding up the candle in his hand, he was Moon Jae-in.
He embarks on the thorny road that his confidant Roh Moo-hyun had walked when he came, and a revenge story that best fits the oriental aesthetic begins.