On October 5, when the people of the whole country were still celebrating the National Day holiday, news came from South Korea that former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Mr. Lee, 77, looks set to stay in prison until he turns 92. Lee Myung-bak's verdict has once again successfully fulfilled the Blue House curse, and to this day, it has been tried and tested, and every generation of South Korean presidents has had a tragic old age under this spell.
In fact, Lee Myung-bak's sentence was almost predestined, from the moment Moon was elected president. Why? It is well known that Moon Jae-in has a life mentor who is a brotherly figure, that is, former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. Moon Jae-in's own autobiography said that he was able to come out into politics, and he wanted to come out to elect the president, in fact, not to consider his own name, or even to consider the future of the country, and one fundamental reason was that he wanted revenge.
In 2009, under the rule of President Lee Myung-bak, South Korean prosecutors opened a large-scale investigation of Roh Moo-hyun and his family, who was trapped in the whirlpool of investigation, watched his relatives being exposed one by one, and even saw that his relatives around him had really done corrupt things, although he firmly believed that he was innocent, but he needed to give an account to the Korean people, so he chose to jump into the cliff.
In the eyes of many South Koreans, although the people around Roh Moo-hyun have committed crimes, Roh Moo-hyun himself is innocent. Roh Moo-hyun chose to commit suicide because he could not stand the persecution of The Lee Myung-bak authorities, and Moon Jae-in, Roh Moo-hyun's best friend, still carried Roh Moo-hyun's suicide note in his pocket and accumulated resentment in his heart. From that moment on he decided that he must take revenge.
Let's put it this way, although it is Said that after Moon Jae-in came to power, it was Park Geun-hye who first investigated, but there is no way, because Park Geun-hye was impeached and stepped down because the evidence was conclusive. And what Moon Jae-in really wants to do is of course Lee Myung-bak, the so-called unjust debt has a master, he must do justice for his good brother.
And do you know that the day of Lee Myung-bak's first trial was Roh Moo-hyun's death day, and as a former president, Lee Myung-bak was detained on the top floor of a detention center in Seoul, where the sun was very hot in the summer, and the room was not yet air-conditioned, allowing 77-year-old Lee Myung-bak to seek medical treatment several times during his detention center.
And today, Lee Myung-bak was finally sentenced, and some people asked whether it is possible for this Moon Jae-in to emulate his predecessors and give amnesty to both former presidents? I think that because of Roh Moo-hyun's factors, this revenge may not be over, and it may not be possible to pardon Lee Myung-bak throughout Moon Jae-in's tenure. On October 5, the day Lee Myung-bak was sentenced, Shin Dong-bin, president of The Korean Lotte Group, was released on probation.
In the past, we have said that in the South Korean judicial circles, there has always been the principle of first-instance light sentences and second-instance releases for big chaebols, and South Korea's judicial circles have always only run the president and not the chaebols, perhaps in this sense, the two sentences of October 5 tell us who is the real master of South Korea. From another point of view, there are also friends who want to ask, is it possible for Moon Jae-in to escape the Blue House curse? I told you that he had come up with a good way for himself.