Jin Joong-kwon “Even the number 1 approval rating…their misconception that the president cannot be”

It wasn’t that he would do politics, but it ranked first in suitability in public opinion polls. This is the story of former prosecutor general Yoon Seok-yeol. At this time last year, I warned of this situation. When power neutralizes the judicial system, the president is forced into politics. If it is politics that broke the rule of law, then establishing it becomes a political task.

Who drove him into politics

After the motherland crisis, the party, the government, and the government continued to shake the prosecutor general. They explicitly demanded that they resign and even disciplined themselves. As such, he pushed it toward politics, and when the possibility became a reality, he initiated the Buryaburya’Prohibition of Yoon Seok-yeol’. Already in 1997, the Constitutional Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to restrict the inauguration of the prosecutor-general to public office. In a hurry, he even made unconstitutional legislation.

The credits that made him a strong candidate for the presidential election were former and current Justice Ministers. Former Minister Cho made the frame of a’prosecutor’s coup’ to prevent the investigation of corruption, former Minister Choo Mi-ae tried to discipline him, and Minister Park Beom-gye’completed inspection’ and eventually eliminated the reason for him to keep the office of general. ‘President candidate’ Yoon Seok-yeol was born like this.

The pro-female media also played a role. The Hankyoreh Newspaper reported that former President Yoon was treated with sexual favors. It is said that he leaked to the media the fact that the prosecutor of the pro-female tendency was not confirmed. Reporters Ammon were insulting, and they were actually doing professing adhesions. Then he even admonished him to “Do not be political” (Senior Reporter Sung Han-yong).

According to the column, former President Yun heard a’political wind’. There are two reasons. First, “If you open up in a poll, even those who have been fine will turn their eyes.” Second, because he was a former prosecutor of a special telecommunications prosecutor, “there is a similarity to a politician holding an election in that he sets a frame and destroys opponents.” Awareness is somewhat vulgar.

Shouldn’t he be politician

“People who hate the Moon Jae-in administration” made him a presidential candidate. But whenever the regime clashed with him, his approval ratings would plummet. It is said that his popularity came not from the emotional hatred of the regime’s opponents, but from the resistance of the middle class to the regime’s destruction of the rule of law. The reporter has no reflection on this.

Is what a politician does is just frame it and destroy the opponent? According to a survey by the National Assembly Committee for National Integration, 89% of experts in various fields answered that the divisions and conflicts in Korean society are severe, and 63.1% of them cited politics as the cause. This is the result of the party, the government, and the government working hand in hand and dividing the people into camps.

The reporter cites two reasons why former President Yun should not be in politics. “First, you can’t. A person without political experience and state affairs experience cannot become president. Will Former President Yun Suk-yeol know the economy and diplomacy?” economy? President Moon Jae-in heard Finnzan from Candidate Jae-myeong Lee, who asked if he knew about my pledge as a candidate. diplomacy? What kind of diplomacy is holding a’bamboo’.

“Second, it cannot be. The current opinion poll figures are just the resentment of the anti-Moon Jae-in propensity voters. It’s a bubble.” All poll figures are bubbles anyway. The current presidential approval rating has also exceeded 80%, but has not fallen to the 30% level. It depends on whether or not to solidify the approval rating. It is not for reporters to lay a mat.

A country that prevents corruption investigation

“In a corrupt republic, where corruption is rampant, a president from the prosecutor general may be needed. However, Korea is not a corrupt republic. The crime rate is also significantly lower compared to other developed countries.” Why is the crime rate of Blue House personnel so high in such a clean country? That is why the prosecutor general was called out as a candidate for the presidential election.

To former President Yun, “contributing to enhancing the anti-corruption capabilities of Korean investigative agencies by utilizing the experience of special investigations accumulated throughout their lives.” The situation where the prosecution’s feet were tied in front of the corruption of the LH (Korea Land and Housing Corporation) due to the dissolution of the joint securities crime investigation team and the adjustment of the investigative power. If the prosecution is eliminated by shouting’complete inspection’, the loss of anti-corruption capacity becomes a clear clause. Didn’t he resign after protesting there?

The reporter wrote, “Is it necessary to sell a number of junior prosecutors who became prosecutors with the dream of a wind luck that the prosecutor Yoon Seok-yeol of the world would be able to eliminate evil?” Who was Prosecutor Seok-Yeol Yoon like the dog of the regime? A reporter who entered the Blue House while serving as a government speaker, criticized former president Yoon Suk-yeol, a newspaper company with a reporter who was appointed as the president’s recommendation committee. I don’t know how to go’because I’m selling X’.

Former President Yun is still open to politics and which side he will do. Seeing that it has already entered the check, it seems that he felt a sense of crisis. He has the right to run and has a justification. However, that alone does not qualify as a president. It is not too late to make that judgment after hearing what kind of politics he will do after running.

The temptation of power

The reporter says, “Anyone who has no political experience and state affairs experience cannot become president.” Two presidents with extensive political experience are now in jail, and another president with extensive experience in state affairs is aiming to avoid going to jail after retirement. On the other hand, Czech President Havel was an inexperienced literary man, but he became a successful president.

If you are a journalist, you should ask these questions. ‘Why isn’t there a successful president in this country?’ ‘Why did the regime that came to power through the candlelight revolution become the force that they said to liquidate?’ We know why. This is because the president, who is rich in experience but poor in philosophy, gave up the ethical function of his office.

In his speech on accepting the University of Copenhagen’s Sonning Award, Havel pointed out the characteristics of’they beginning to lose the fight against the temptation of power’. “By persuading him that he is only serving the state, he comes to believe in himself excellence and takes privileges for granted.” Isn’t this a characteristic of the people of this regime?

Having lived in the prerogative of the President, Havel confesses, “I realize I am on the threshold of entering the world of communist fat hoes who have criticized my life.” It was the power of reflection that made him a respected president with no experience in state affairs. “Because I have the power, I endlessly doubt myself.”

It is the former Minister of the Fatherland to achieve a confrontation with Havel. He wrote this while posting a picture of Soju-Byeong on’President Career Good Day’ on my SNS. “Hometown always gives me’primary power’.” There is no ethical reflection in his presidential campaign, only’primitive’ instincts. This is what he thinks of politics.

Primal power without reflection

In the yard where his wife was arrested due to his daughter’s irregularities in the entrance examination, the link to the alleged article on the suspicion of the daughter’s entrance examination denial, and the attempt to destroy the prosecution by creating a frame called the’prosecutor’s coup’ would all be attributable to the’primitive power’. With that power he and his friends have abolished the ethical dimension of politics, and the laws governing the minimum of ethics. Former Minister Cho Kook is the symbol of this regime. “The prosecution is responsible for real estate corruption.” (Former Minister Choo Mi-ae) “What did the prosecution do when you had the right to investigate?” (Minister Park Beom-gye) “Minister Choo Mi-ae ordered the investigation, but the prosecution did nothing.” (Seondae Chairman Lee Nak-yeon) There is no reflection here. There is just a frame that puts the blame on the prosecution.

When does politics become immoral

Wouldn’t it be different from the opposition party? In the end, this universal introspection and irresponsibility of the politicians called former President Yun as a candidate for presidential election. He speaks of constitutional spirit and rule of law. But the law is just the minimum of ethics. The destruction of the rule of law is only the result of the people in this regime destroying the ethics and morals that underlie the law.

Politics is not immoral. Says Havel. “Politics is a place where human efforts to more emphasize moral sensibilities, the ability to critically reflect on oneself, genuine responsibility, tastes and wit, the ability to empathize with others, a sense of moderation, and humility are made.” When we don’t believe it, that’s when politics becomes immoral.

It’s up to him to decide whether or not to do politics. However, I hope that he, or even all politicians over the top of the world, will read Havel’s speech. Economics, diplomacy, the work of the minister. The president’s job is to give the direction of the country. The country’s biggest challenge is to restore the ethical dimension of politics. This is the identity of the hope that the public projects on him.

The reporter affirms that it cannot be. Maybe so. But, says Havel. “Hope is not conviction that something will work. Whatever the outcome, it is the certainty that it is correct.” Honesty is the best strategy, and principle is the best tactic. Don’t think about the outcome and just go the right path is the way to realize your hope.

Jin Joong-kwon, former professor at Dongyang University

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