The Wild Pig of Seocho - The Rise of Yoon Seok-yeol

The pundits on the left in South Korea have begun referring to the insubordinate Prosecutor General of South Korea, Yoon Seok-yeol, as the "wild pig of Seocho." Seocho dong is the location of his offices in Seoul, South Korea. Yoon has politicized the office and made it the tool of the right wing interests in South Korea. The US State Department, and US Forces Korea and the US Eighth Army Commands, in conjunction with the so called "working group" continue the traditional function of US control of South Korean foreign policy. On the other hand, Prosecutor Yoon in conjunction with the conservative media and the far right in South Korea continue their now faltering but substantial effort to undermine the administration of President Moon Jae-in, who currently has overwhelming popular support in South Korea.

It is very difficult to find English language publications accurately describing the domestic political situation in South Korea. It has been said that so called "experts" in the west who write about Korean affairs cover North Korean affairs 90 percent of the time. Ironically, they literally know very little about North Korea. On the other hand, more objective English language articles from the South Korean Yonhap News or Hankyoreh tend to address the issue of the day and assume the foreign reader has a broad understanding of the historical or political context of their reporting, which in the case of western readers is largely non-existent. For this reason, I've put together an index of this blog's articles based on recent South Korean media coverage of Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, mostly based on commentary by critics who are supporters of President Moon Jae-in.

This was necessary because English language reporters in western media by and large despise Moon Jae-in and the ruling Democratic Party, because of their effort to end the Korean conflict, and normalize relations with North Korea. Such policies are antithetical to the traditional efforts of the US and Japan to dominate Korea as they have since the late 19th Century. Moon and his party are commonly accused in western media of being "pro-communist," which is nonsense. The bi-partisan view in both Japan and the United States. although never admitted, and carefully disguised with vigorous assertions to the contrary, prescribes that the most effective means to control Korea are to keep it divided and suppress democracy in South Korea. Obstruction of any negotiations with or concessions of any nature to North Korea is the principal means of maintaining the security rational for the "protectorate" role of the US, the ancillary structure of the US military command in South Korea, and the UN sanctions regime used to justify the obstruction of North-South intra-Korean dialogue and commerce. In view of the ongoing collapse of the right in South Korea in political terms, Yoon's efforts in conjunction with mainstream media groups to politicize justice in South Korea is the correlated rear guard action necessary to suppress the sovereign exercise of power by freely elected South Korean public officials and their appointed ministers.

Yoon Seok-yeol represents the primary residual institutional resistance of the right, in the form of an unlawful prosecution-press alliance to thwart democracy in South Korea.


The blog's Yoon Seok-yeol commentary index:

1. South Korea's Top Prosecutor Embroiled in Family Scandals March 15, 2020

2. South Korea: Top Prosecutor's "Mother-in-law" Scandal Continues March 22, 2020

3. Yoon clings to Hwang Kyo-ahn for his survival April 1, 2020

4. Yoon clings to Na Kyung-won April 9, 2020

5. New Anti-Corruption Committee - Threatens Right in South Korea April 29, 2020

6. Politically motivated prosecutorial malfeaseance in South Korea May 16, 2020

7. Law in the case of Cho Guk May 19, 2020

8. More prosecutor misconduct alleged in former PM Han Myung-sook's trial May 25, 2020

9. Battle for Control of South Korea's Justice System July 2, 2020