[TV Chosun] Unchanging Yeonsangun (Yoon Seok-yeol) and the 3 Ministers.
The suggestion here seems to be that the righteous three ministers with the moral and physical courage to give the king advice he doesn't want to hear are Cho-Joong-Dong, the three dominant conservative media giants in South Korea (Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, and Donga Ilbo) which had remained uncritical of President Yoon until just recently. Until now criticisms of Yoon as tyrannical and incompetent, were only heard through independent media and opposition politicians now under attack. Does this signal the end for the Yoon Seok-yeol administration? Yoon has also turned on party colleagues and allies that made his presidency possible and now is running the party into the ground. Do the conservative media think their advice will sway Yoon? Doesn't look like it. So do they wish to absolve themselves of their own complicity by saying that Yoon and his cadre of opportunists in the so called People's Power Party (PPP) brought the prospective failure in the upcoming April 2024 general election upon themselves?
*Although the calculation did not change, the spirit of the three monks who were not afraid of death is conveyed in the Annals.
During the Spring and Autumn Dynasty, Shi Chu, the godfather of the Wei Dynasty, directly told the monarch Yonggong, “Throw away the treacherous Mi Zihe and appoint the loyalist Geo Baekyu.” When Yeong-gong did not listen, he died and said, “Put my body under the window.” Only then did King Yeong appoint Geobaekok and cast out Mijaha. This is a terrible remonstrance, ‘ ( the corpse's remonstrance 尸諫) ,’ which achieved its will with my corpse.*
*Quoted in-[TV조선] 바뀌지 않는 연산군(윤석열)과 3정승(비윤계) https://www.fmkorea.com/6289431276
Among his other grievous faults Yeonsangun as king presided over two purges of the literati, the scholarly nobles. This is analogous to Yoon's censorship camgaign against critics and independent news sources like MBC and KBS and their overseeing agency the Korean Communications Commission. The Justice Minister Hong Dong-hun functions as President Yoon's modern day "executioner" persecuting labor, dissent, political opponents, and media figures. I understand that the president of JTBC News, Son Seok-hee, a reknowned award winning journalist, retired recently. It wasn't too long ago, that prosecution investigators conducted a search of JTBC News offices (for reporting on misuse of prosecution expense account funds). What connection, if any, there exists between the two events is unknown. Perhaps Son is no longer up to the kind of tumultuous events he covered during the Park administration. MBC and even National Assembly members' offices have been ransacked by Yoon's prosecutors, no one is above his power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonsangun_of_Joseon
There are copious comparisons of Yoon to Yeonsangun since he took office. A google search in Korean revealed about 120,000 links. Of course many are social media posts, redundantly referring to the same sources. Among the top links, the first major political figure to make the comparison, that I found was democratic party National Assembly member and party executive committee member, Go Min-jung. Assembly member Go criticized President Yoon for sacking the Presidential Archives Director, Shim Seong-bo, who was appointed at the end of the Moon Jae-in administration, saying, “Does President Yoon Seok-yeol want to be remembered as Yeonsangun?” This story was reported by Chosun Ilbo February 3, 2023.*
*고민정 “尹, 연산군으로 기억되고 싶나” 대통령기록관장 직위해제 비판 https://www.chosun.com/politics/politics_general/2023/02/03/TRT37QOOJZFLFCTUFFJII6TNNU/
Along analogous tyrannical developments it was recently disclosed that the National Elections Committee allowed the National Intelligence Service access to its computer software programming for election counts, because it felt it was under some compulsion to do so for "security reasons." After the NIS inspection, the NEC Director at a National Assembly committee hearing revealed that his agency found upon checking their system, the NIS had left some its own software on NEC computers.*
*선관위 보안점검 뒤 '미삭제' 국정원 프로그램 있었다?
OhMyNews 10.13.23
https://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0002969128&CMPT_CD=P0001&utm_campaign=daum_news&utm_source=daum&utm_medium=daumnews
The Chairman of the South Korean National Election Commission, No Tae-ak, is now being investigated by public prosecutors for neglect of duties for failing to safeguard the election processes from North Korean hacking and interference.* There is no evidence of any security failures or potential failures. The Yoon administration fears impeachment and intends to interfere in election processes related to the general election for National Assembly seats next April, itself, particularly early voting which typically favors progressive voters. Just another public institution under attack by the right wing Yoon administration.
*검찰, '투·개표 보안 부실 의혹' 노태악 수사 착수, YTN 10.17; 임성호
https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202310171828349340
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