Despite South Korea’s recent presidential elections, in spite of cohesion and a break with the cycle of political revenge, it has no mercy for the newly elected President Lee J-Mung for its predecessor, Yun Suk Yeol and Hasol, and Hasol approved a new investigation between the former President and his wife.
Each of the last six South Korean leaders was going back to Roh Mo-Hune, which was selected in 2003, for his work in the office or for other alleged wrongdoing, usually faced a criminal investigation with devastating crises.
Kachcha died on charges of bribery, while his successor, Lee Mayung-Buck was convicted for leaving office for bribe, drowning and tax evasion, and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
The next resident of President Blue House, Park Gune-Hai, in 2016, was given a 25-year prison period for influence pedaling and corruption.
The next full-time President was Moon Jae-in, who was involved in corruption charges related to his son-in-law in April 2025, who was getting a job in an airline in the ongoing case.
His replacement was like, who was struggling in the public opinion poll in December when he abolished a short -term martial law, which now sees him on a trial for the rebellion.
A fast to break the cycle
At a press conference on 25 May exactly nine days before the election, Lee said he could end the cycle of political vengeance, as he was at the end of such attacks.
But on Tuesday, a week after the election day, President Lee signed a bill to investigate the special lawyer in Yun’s Marshal Law, which is going on in the court case of court, as well as his wife, Kim Ken-Hai as well as suspicion of corruption.
“I am going to accept that I am very disappointed that the same vicious cycle of revenge that we have seen in the past is repeating again,” Kim Song-Vu said, former politicians of South Korean Congress and now Kim Dey-Jung are members of the Board of Peace Foundation.
“The People’s Power Party (PPP) election is completely dislocated and not a tremendous opponent for Lee or Democratic Party (DP), according to this, the opposition may have an opportunity for a digestible approval, to improve the political situation and move beyond the politics of conflict that we have such a long experience,” he said.
Kim said, “It is clear that this is not happening and I am worried that Lee will use the huge power that he is now for his own benefit.” “I am afraid of the political future of the country.”
Lee worked as a great power
Lee-Jung, Professor of International Studies at Kongju National University, has equal concerns about the concentration of power in Lee’s hands.
“There were good reasons that each of the former presidents went to jail, but this time Lee said he did not want to take revenge,” he said.
“Could arrest and prosecution to declare martial law, but was starting a special investigation in his wife?”
Kim Song-Vu of Kim Da-Jung Peace Foundation, suggests that Lee Himola is a matter of many legal matters that are dating back in 2018 and publishing false information on elections and violating the campaign laws by lying during a television beloved in 2020.
In 2023, he became the first serving politician since 1998, who were questioned about a criminal case when he was quizared on corporate donations instead of favorites.
Hey was accused of bribery, corruption, violation of faith and a large -scale construction project in Seenam city in the same year, where he was the first mayor. Hey, being illegally accused of $ 8 million (€ 7 million) in North Korea through a cloth company.
On June 5, the Supreme Court confirmed the prison sentence for one of the closest advisors of Lee, who has managed to delay the decisions in North Korean, although Lee would have managed to delay the decisions that would have disqualified him to run the presidential election.
Retric delayed
On 9 June, the Seoul High Court ruled that a retric on the allegations of violation of the election law would have to delay after Leave’s office, as the South Korean Constitution motivates a sitting President to sit with a criminal prosecution, except in case of rebellion or treason.
“Lee now has a lot of power and it is possible that he will try to save him after completing his tenure by passing new laws,” Kim said. He said, “If he tries to do so, I think it would be very harmful to his support and the public will be angry, then the liberals supporting him at this time,” he said.
“If the Democratic party pushes through the law, South Korea will be in a situation where politicians result in a conflict rather than finding ways to cover their differences, ways to cover the thread dialogue.”
Edited by: Srinivas Majumdaru
