South Korean opposition leader indicted for alleged corruption
Leader of left-leaning Democratic Party faces charges including bribery, breach of duty and conflict of interest.
22 Mar 2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/22/south-korean-opposition-leader-indicted-for-alleged-bribery
Aljazeera simply regurgitates the story they get from the South Korean MSM, which, whether they know it or not, is motivated by US and pro-Japanese anti-China interests.
South Korea's Yoon administration is blatantly corrupt, rather than the democratic party opposition leader Lee Jae-myung. The fact is that Yoon Seok-yeol as a prosecutor covered up the Busan Savings Bank scandal which in turn led to the Daejangdong real estate scandal. Yoon's family even received almost 1.5 million dollars in an alleged home purchase from one of the principals in the scandal, Kim Man-be. Yoon's former boss and mentor was involved in covering up the Daejangdong scandal along with about a half dozen other senior prosecutors. Yoon's boss in the special investigation office, is now in jail. He was one of the former prosecutors who belonged to the 5 billion won club, an expression describing the group taking bribes from Kim Man-be's Hwacheon Daeyoo investment company. President Yoon's administration, known as "the dictatorship of lawyers," is following an Orwellian tact of blaming the opposition democratic party leader for the scandal and protecting its own. Anyone familiar with the story, knows how Yoon's "division" of prosecutors operate to line their pockets and frame cases against their political enemies. A superficial regurgitation of headlines based upon the implausible indictment against Lee Jae-myung, unsupported by credible evidence, is exactly what favors the empire's interests. No deeper examination required. The strategy is known as geomeon uchak 검언유착 (prosecution-press collusion). The US and Japan require a corrupt undemocratic South Korea to push their anti China coalition based on "shared values."
Issuing the indictment yesterday was entirely political timing. The domestic political and civil scene in South Korea is in an uproar over Yoon's humiliating and disastrous performance capitulating to Japanese demands at the summit a few days ago. This is the big distraction to divert public attention to the unpopularity of the so called "trilateral alliance," against China, touted by the US. Don't look over there (at Tokyo; at Yoon's corruption and incompetence) look over here!
My favorite characterization of Yoon's behavior in Japan at the summit, described it like this: Yoon performed dogeja 도게자, in return for a rice omlette dish (omurice 오므라이스 ). According to the South Korean Hankyreh editorial:
Yoon government's 'forced labor problem unilateral' was Korea's 'Dogeja' to Japan. In samurai culture, Togeza is the etiquette of kneeling down and bowing head down to ask for forgiveness. Dogeja means giving the other person complete control to the point of even offering his own head.(bold- I edited the AI translation).
오므라이스 한 그릇과 바꾼 윤석열의 ‘도게자’
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion/column/1084736.html?_fr=mt2
During the formal meeting at the summit, the South Korean team requested that recording devices be removed from the room. Apparently, Yoon didn't want the home audience to hear what he said there. That's okay, they got it the gist of it from the Japanese news media coverage. But this gives the South Korean foreign minister and others the space to say "that topic wasn't raised in the agenda" and "I don't remember that."
Another interesting aspect to the Japan-South Korea summit aftermath on the South Korean side, comes from a National Assembly committee hearing yesterday attended by South Korea's foreign minister. A democratic party representative showed a video of the cult guru "Dosa" Cheon Gong, who is allegedly a spiritual adviser to Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife Kim Gon-hee, during a session questioning the foreign minister about the miserable performance of the South Korean side. In the video Teacher Cheon Gong alleged that no one in South Korea was hurt by the forced labor issue, and that South Korea should apologize to Japan. (I believe the video was from March 2022.) There were some vociferous objections to the presentation of the video by representatives from Yoon's party. Comparisons were made between Cheon Gong and Choi Soon-shil, former President Park Geun-hye's spiritual advisor who appeared to be controlling the president's itinerary before she was impeached (they were tried together). Who is this cult leader? Who finances him? Why was he in New York when Yoon arrived for his attendance at the UN? Allegedly Cheon Gong never completed grade school.
This is a pretty well thought out analysis of how the Yoon-Kishida summit undermined the legitimacy of the South Korean government. I recommend the editorial:
Why is Seoul playing dumb about Japan’s unlawful colonial rule?
Posted on : Mar.21,2023
All the controversy over the recent proposal by Seoul to provide third-party payments to victims of Japan’s forced labor boils down to the question of the legal legitimacy of Japan’s colonial rule over Korea
If the head of state denies national identity, then he has given up the right to represent the country. Similarly, if a Korean president aims for a future far detached from international peace or peaceful unification, this goes against his constitutional obligations. President Yoon Suk-yeol has denied the identity of the Republic of Korea itself.
On March 6, Minister of Foreign Affairs Park Jin announced the government's plan to provide compensation to the victims of Japan’s colonial-era forced labor through payments made by a third party. Regarding the controversial plan, Yoon called it “a decision to move toward a future-oriented South Korea-Japan relationship.”
The most important problem with this “solution,” however, is that Yoon-helmed South Korea has now erased the illegality of Japanese colonial rule on its own. It has also denied the legitimacy of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, the legal traditions which form the foundation of South Korea’s current Constitution.
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1084538.html
The political scientist's analysis supplements other evaluations that impugn Yoon's adoption of so called Japanee "Pan Asian" views to justify conquest of their neighbors territory by force for absorbtion into the Japanese Empire as colonies. Implicit in the 1965 Japanese South Korean "settlement" agreement with pro-Japanese dictator Park Geun-hee, a former officer of Japanese Imperial armed forces, was that Japan hadn't occupied Korea by armed force, which is historical revisionism of the worst kind.
See- Coming to Terms with Japanese Imperialism- Then and Now, August 19, 2019;
https://civilizationdiscontents.blogspot.com/2019/08/coming-to-terms-with-japanese.html
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