On December 19, 2002, the results of south Korea's 16th presidential election were announced, and Roh Moo-hyun, a 56-year-old politician, successfully defeated the Candidate of the Grand National Party, Lee Hoe-il, and was elected president of South Korea.
Roh Moo-hyun was elected president of South Korea
When the news came out, Roh Moo-hyun and his supporters rejoiced, but they could not imagine that only 7 years later, the president, who represented integrity, would end his life by jumping off a cliff and committing suicide.
From Shumin to President Roh Moo-hyun what happened
And why did he commit suicide?
In 1980, roh Moo-hyun, 34, was busy at a small law firm in Busan, handling cases that were mainly tax lawsuits, and his peers who worked for the chaebols looked down on such a business, but he was happy to rely on it, and he had paid off his debts and lived a rich life with his wife and children.
Young Roh Moo-hyun
Originally, he thought that life would always be so calm as water, but a sudden rights defense case broke his calm. In 1981, a number of students in Busan were detained for privately hiding banned books, which was not a big case, but what was unexpected was that the students were actually tortured in the process of being detained, almost all the students were beaten to the point of bruises, as a substitute lawyer Roh Moo-hyun mistakenly became the defense lawyer of the case, as the investigation deepened, he found that the students' private collection was not a banned book at all, but a book everywhere on the market, including the author of the book is a diplomat who helps Korea do things. The illegal collection of banned books is nothing more than the false accusations imposed on the students by the government in order to quell the pro-democracy movement, and the process of defense is full of twists and turns, which also makes Roh Moo-hyun deeply feel the darkness of the situation. Just when he was at a loss, a man appeared, and like a bolt of lightning, he dispelled the dark inner shadow in front of Roh Moo-hyun's eyes, and according to Roh Moo-hyun's later recollection, he opened a window for himself to understand the real society for his confused self, and he was also the defense lawyer for this case, Moon Jae-in.
Moon Jae-in
The performance of justice in this case also earned them a reputation, after which Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in worked together to change the law firm's business from tax litigation to free lawsuits for civilians, in fact, the change in business is not only because of this defense, but also for deeper reasons, but also from the perspective of Roh Moo-hyun's origins. Roh Moo-hyun was born on September 1, 1946 in a remote village in Gimhae City, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, so poor that it was called by locals: "Even if the crows flew in, they flew back crying because they didn't eat." And Roh Moo-hyun's family is the poorest family in this poor village, with three sons and daughters a total of five children, the family often can't even eat, but Rao is so embarrassed, his father Lu Jushi still attaches great importance to the education of his children, in order to let Roh Moo-hyun and his eldest brother can have school, the parents do not hesitate to sell their houses and spend the night at relatives' homes. In 1959, Roh Moo-hyun was promoted to junior high school, because the family lacked money, his mother had to ask the school superintendent, saying that he would wait until the summer when the family sold peaches to pay the tuition, but the director of education sneered after listening to it, even if your son graduated from college, what can he do, it is not the same as a poor egg, Roh Moo-hyun's eldest brother heard about this, and the next day he ran to the school and angrily grabbed the collar of the director of education and asked him to apologize. After this storm, Roh Moo-hyun was finally able to enroll, and the results were very good, but after graduating from junior high school, the family could no longer afford the tuition fees of the brothers' high school, roh Moo-hyun had to choose a busan commercial high school with a scholarship in order to continue his education, the level was equivalent to China's junior college, which also became Roh Moo-hyun's highest education. After graduating from Busan Commercial High School, Roh Moo-hyun, who had no long skills, found a job weaving fishing nets, but the salary was too low to barely maintain his daily expenses, and at that time, it was a decent job to engage in legal work in South Korea, and Roh Moo-hyun, who did not want to succumb to fate, resolutely quit his job and returned to his hometown to build a small hut, while doing odd jobs while preparing for the judicial examination.
Roh Moo-hyun
But before he could take the judicial examination, he was conscripted into the army. But even in the barracks of military service, Roh Moo-hyun did not give up the preparation for the exam, ready to take the exam at the first time after retiring from the army, and finally waited for roh Moo-hyun, who was discharged from the army, and the first thing he did when he returned home was to take the judicial exam and fulfill his long-cherished wish many years ago, but fate did not seem to take care of this poor young man, because he had never systematically studied professional knowledge, and the exam he had prepared for a long time failed. He was not willing to continue to work hard, but he repeatedly took the exam for ten years and still fell behind Sun Shan, during which his eldest brother, who was the pillar of the pillar, died in a car accident, and his family became more and more sloppy, just when he was ready to bow to fate. In March 1975, Roh Moo-hyun, who had experienced six failures, finally succeeded, and on the day he learned of the results, the whole family shed tears of mixed feelings for him, and Roh Moo-hyun, who was admitted as a lawyer, began his career as a lawyer, because Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in were both humble and hard-working, and the two were very sympathetic to the ordinary people at the bottom of society, and since they jointly opened a law firm, they often ran for human rights cases. At that time, South Korea was implementing the economic strategy of giving priority to the development of heavy chemical industry, manufacturing became the pillar of South Korea's foreign trade at that time, but the workers as the main force were oppressed, and the business owners forced the workers to work uninterrupted for more than 40 consecutive days, and when the workers who were extremely tired could not help but doze off, they would immediately be beaten by the foreman's stick, not only so that the workers' food was often deducted, and the work accidents were endless, and the social contradictions were very sharp under such conditions. Unions also often hold industrial strikes, workers' rights and interests have been repeatedly violated, and South Korea's governments at all levels have almost all sided with the company, and no one cares about the lives of workers. Under such circumstances, trade union organizers began to confront employers in court, requesting judicial assistance outside the administration, and at that time, South Korea's judicial and judicial organs basically only obeyed the authorities to do things for the enterprise, and few people came forward to defend the workers and trade unions, only Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in, who had a sense of compassion and justice, were willing to represent them for free, and successively took charge of a number of cases that ordinary lawyers did not dare to take over, and they became famous human rights lawyers in South Korea at that time. But Roh Moo-hyun also formed a grudge with the chaebols, which also laid the foundation for his future fate.
In September 1987, Roh Moo-hyun was well known to the South Korean public for defending the worker Lee Seok-kyu who was killed by tear gas bombs, but at the same time he was arrested and imprisoned for this matter, and after his release from prison, his reputation grew, and after seeing the hardships of civilians, he was no longer satisfied with being a small lawyer, he wanted to go to politics to realize his political ideals and ambitions for the welfare of more poor people. Moon Jae-in has no intention of politics, but he unconditionally supports Roh Moo-hyun's wishes, whether it is running for congressman or president, Moon Jae-in is always saddled up and down, but even so, Roh Moo-hyun's political history is the same as his examination process, still ups and downs, he has participated in a total of six elections, but he was elected only twice, but a political choice during this period determined the direction of his life. In 1990, Roh Moo-hyun joined the Civilian Party led by Kim Dae-jung, and since then Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Dae-jung have formed an indissoluble bond, and after fierce competition with his support, they finally defeated the Candidate lee Hoe-chang of the Grand National Party and were successfully elected as the 16th President of South Korea. Seeing that Roh Moo-hyun had finally ascended to the presidency, Moon Jae-in breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could continue his career as a lawyer, Roh Moo-hyun found him, and under Roh Moo-hyun's almost pleading pleading, Moon Jae-in had to serve as the chief secretary of civil affairs, and wholeheartedly assisted Roh Moo-hyun to realize their life ambitions of benefiting the people.
Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in
But Moon Jae-in, who is in the closest position at the political center, even if he is low-key, will inevitably be pushed to the forefront from time to time. The endless exposure and questioning left him in a state of tension every day, and this sense of powerlessness made Moon feel haggard physically and mentally. So in February 2004, Moon formally resigned and flew to Nepal to relax himself, and just as he was enjoying a leisurely life, a shocking news came that Roh Moo-hyun had been impeached. In fact, the chaebol problem is the deep cause of the sinister turmoil in South Korea's political arena, and Roh Moo-hyun, who regards himself as a civilian, is doomed to stumble all the way since he came to power, and he is struggling in this big problem of ono. In September 2003, Roh Moo-hyun announced his retirement from the New Millennium Democratic Party, a move that made him lose a solid backing and become a non-party and non-factional president, and Roh Moo-hyun, who came from a civilian background and spoke for civilians, naturally became a thorn in the side of South Korean chaebols. March 2004 At the instigation of the backstage, lawmakers impeached Roh Moo-hyun for violating election laws, and he was forced to suspend him for several months, the conservative opposition party said that Roh Moo-hyun's public support for the open Kuomintang before the parliamentary elections violated election regulations, and the actions of the opposition caused Roh Moo-hyun to be challenged as never before, and social unrest Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate. Roh Moo-hyun had difficulties, and Moon Jae-in immediately decided to return to China to help President Roh Moo-hyun get out of the predicament, and he used all the resources around him to personally visit the elite of the legal profession and organize Roh Moo-hyun's agent team, which was fully responsible for the legal response. He also launched several candlelight rallies against impeachment in an attempt to unite the power of the citizens to save the president from impeachment, and the efforts of Moon and his team were rewarded, the impeachment request was dismissed, and three days after the impeachment trial ended, Roh moo-hyun asked Moon to stay in the Blue House as chief secretary of civil society. Roh Moo-hyun knows that South Korean politics is like a colosseum, only Moon Jae-in is the most reassuring to himself, after Moon Jae-in returned Roh Moo-hyun like a tiger, he has never forgotten his own way, in order to solve the problem of people's livelihood from the basic structure, he strives to eliminate polarization, while promoting economic and social policies to ensure that the vulnerable groups can also get rich, he also introduced a series of policies to solve economic problems such as employment education, unemployed temporary workers and so on.
Moon Jae-in and Roh Moo-hyun
At the beginning of 2006, under the direct impetus of Roh Moo-hyun, the South Korean procuratorial organs killed heavyweights suspected of accepting illegal funds and accepting bribes, and with a stormy arrest operation, it set off a storm of integrity in the Korean political arena that had never been seen in history, and this behavior also touched the interests of capitalists, and unlike those politicians who spoke for the chaebols, whether as a human rights lawyer or as president, Roh Moo-hyun has always been a heretic in South Korean politics, and his political history is full of breakthroughs. In February 2008, Roh Moo-hyun's presidency officially ended, and after leaving office, he returned to his hometown to live a rural life of idle clouds and wild cranes, and he wanted to end his life, but he could not escape the fate of being liquidated. At the behest of The new chaebol representative, President Lee Myung-bak, Roh Moo-hyun was investigated, thinking that he was honest and honest in government, such an investigation was naturally not afraid, but he did not think that the other party was basically prepared, Roh Moo-hyun could not find anything on him, then he started from the people around him, his wife, children, cronies, and friends could not let go, and finally found out that his wife and brother had accepted bribes of 6 million US dollars. On May 23, 2009, in the early morning of May 23, 2009, Moon Jae-in was woken up by the secretary's phone call, and the head of the room (Roh Moo-hyun) fell down from the mountain, this sentence exploded like a thunderclap in Moon Jae-in's ear, and his intuition told him that something bad was about to happen, and sure enough, when Moon Jae-in hurried to the hospital, Roh Moo-hyun had no signs of life, and falling off the cliff was not an accident, but Roh Moo-hyun took advantage of the secretary's lack of attention, jumped down by himself, yes, he wanted to die. At Roh Moo-hyun's funeral, Lee Myung-bak, who was thinking about liquidating him, also appeared, and Lee Myung-bak looked very polite with a sad face.
Lee Myung-bak attends Roh Moo-hyun's funeral
He was immersed in the joy of bringing down his opponent, completely unaware that in the crowd, there was a person who clenched his back teeth, and three years later this person used the evidence he had collected to send Lee Myung-bak to prison to prove Roh Moo-hyun's innocence, and this person was Moon Jae-in, who had ascended to the top of power for Roh Moo-hyun.
Moon Jae-in's revenge
For many reasons, the story of the South Korean president is mostly imperfect, Roh Moo-hyun came from a humble origin, but he has always gazed at the world with warm eyes, treated the world with a warm heart, and carried his idealized political ambitions, but in the end he was swallowed up by the dark cliff, willing to reunite with Jun for Jiang Shui, this rather traditional romantic sentence is Moon Jae-in's lament for Roh Moo-hyun, and it is also his agreement on the common ideals of the two, but this agreement is mixed with a little sadness and helplessness. Fortunately, although the long night is difficult to see, there are still people who give up their lives to light the lamp and go forward to pass on the torch, just to illuminate the sky that should be brilliant.