Probably, what is happening in South Korea is worse than America’s Donald Trump’s elect. At least, Donald Trump has not controlled by cult leader’s daughter. Many friends ask me, Jacob, could you explain what is happening in South Korea? Why so many Koreans come out to the square and calling for impeachment? Then, I start to explain reluctantly with depressed voice. Some people may have read about South Korean president ask for an advice to her friend. To explain this story, I should start to explain from 1970’s. The current president of South Korea is Park Geun-Hye, and her father was also president: Park Chung-Hee. After President Park’s first lady Yuk Yong Soo got assassinated, Park Geun-Hye had to take a role of first lady instead of her mother as the eldest daughter. However, she was very lonely and started to miss her mother due to her young age. One day, an old man approached to her and introduced himself as a psychic who has a special ability that can possess spirit to his body; his name was Choi Tae-Min. Since then, he became close subordinate of her. President Park Chung-Hee, after he recognized Choi was giving a bad influence to his daughter, he tried to exterminate Choi, but Park Geun-Hye always defended him. From then 40 years later, Choi Tae-Min died in 1994, and Park Geun-Hye became Korea’s 18th President. Yet, Choi’s clan was still exerting significant influence even after Choi Tae-Min’s death; her daughter: Choi Sun-Sil was behind of Park in managing country. According to Korean presses, from policy making to nominating high officials, Choi Sun-Sil influenced a lot to president. Moreover, by using president’s power from back, she exploited taxes, took bribes from companies including Samsung. In addition to that Choi Sun-Sil used her power to give privileges to her daughter Jung Yu-Ra. Jung is known as a Asian game gold medalist national horse rider that has been participating a lot of competitions. However, according to Korean Presses, there were a lot of corruptions and supports of her mother. For instance, Samsung intervened in choosing Jung’s horses for Asian games, and to the cost of buying horses, Samsung was exempted from vast taxes. And, Jung is also a student of famous women’s university in Korea: Ewaha Women’s University. University announced that she entered with athlete careers. However, in Jung’s enter, Choi was related and also she required one of university’s professor to give Jung a good grade. Therefore, Jung could get average ‘B’ from her all subjects. About this issue, the principle of Ewaha University resigned, and also school is sincerely considering about Jung’s expel. However, related all this issue, there are more of veiled truths. A lot of presses are trying to unveil all the truth, and citizens also strongly hope that president will resign. It is such a hard truth to believe. Especially, as long as Korean citizens had never imagined that their country was controlled by only one normal person, they are resentful now. In Seoul Square 1.5 Million people come out, and they are calling for President’s resign for her dignity. However, president’s attitude seems that she will never resign from her position. Therefore, people think impeachment is the only resolution for this issue; still, it is also hard to impeach president, because her term is only 16 months left, and to the process of the impeachment, it takes more than one year. Furthermore, since I was very proud of my country, it is very shameful that my country’s leader is corruptive. And, I was really happy about our first female president, because even many developed countries could not accomplish. However, now that pride is turned into resent. Especially, when people ask me about it over and over, I do not even know whether reply about this shameful issue is right or not, and even the moment that I am writing this article, I am really ashamed. However, I write this article by hoping that people will not no longer misunderstand and will not have more curiosity about it. And, I want to believe that still there is a hope in my country, since there are a lot of people who are calling for righteousness. If you want to read more clear article, then this is an article from BBC. And this is the video that took protest in the square. (Youtube)
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