Picture of the Day: Flowers for Ex-President Park Geun-hye
Flowers are put around the new residence of former President Park Geun-hye in the southeastern city of Daegu on March 27, 2022, as supporters welcomed her return home after she was discharged from a Seoul hospital last week. Park was pardoned at the end of last year after four years and nine months of imprisonment for a corruption scandal that led to her removal from office in 2017. (Yonhap)
Everyone knows the real reason she was deposed was the oerception she was somehow to blame for the Sewol tragedy.
Well, that and her father hated communists; and since General Park was dead, they decided to attack his daughter.
But leftists have a psychotic need to lie artlessly to attempt to cover up their previous lies. So they wind up revealing the truth in the end…
We now see how the normal Koreans feel about Ms Park. Would Moon receive the same if he was sick? We’ll never know.
Since our American members don’t seem to know the Korean impeachment process, a quick education.
Unlike the US where impeachment is handled entirely by Congress, the Korean National Assembly simply votes whether to send the impeachment case to the Constitutional Court for trial.
And the judges of the Constitutional Court after the trial makes the judgement whether or not impeachment is warranted. And if they rule in favor of impeachment, all that happens is that the president goes home after being removed from power.
The trial that led to former Pres. Park into imprisonment was a criminal trial held after her impeachment and the prosecution for that case was vigorously led by non other than the current president-elect Yoon Seok Yeol.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20211104001051315
If anything, the former prosecutor general has been accused of playing a key role in undermining the legitimacy of the previous conservative government of President Park Geun-hye and exposing its corruption, leading to her impeachment and imprisonment
Interestingly, I don’t see anyone else mentioning this fact.
If former Pres. Park does decide to attend Yoon’s inaugration, it will be awkward moment to say the least.
Apparently, it seems she hates him a lot more than Moon.
Pres. Pak, victim of a judicial coup and illegally held as a political prisoner.
Listen, TOK: you and the Captains Ahab can rail against us all day long; but it’s South Korea who abused their former Presidents and elected the abusers to high offices, not us.
And regardless of whether we mention how we feel about a country where someone can be tried twice for the same crime, we recognize South Korea’s right to exist. And many of us spent part of our youth preserving that right.
So make all the silly internet points you want. All we’re liable to say back to you is “You’re welcome.” But we wish you’d do a better job of saying “Thanks, migun!” than to keep electing and reelecting bad rodeo clowns.
Oh, and the anger at Park over the Sewol tragedy was evident in Seoul in 2014 as well as Houston, TX in 2016. Yes, there were still anti-Park protests in Texas in 2016…
Nice work if you can get it, I guess. I still have the little yellow ribbon they “forced” on me at the HMart on Blalock. Yellow ribbons are also used for Sarcoma, so I stopped to chat with the protestors, who appear to have been flown in for the purpose of harassing grocery store customers.
Whoa setnaffa
Don’t like the fact that the person who prosecuted and put former Pres. Park in jail is in fact the current Pres-elect Yoon of the PPP and not Moon as your fairy tale mind would like to believe?
And how touching that your narrow mind has decided to lump me with the ‘Captain Ahabs’ even though compared to KP and KM, I’m more grounded and less prone to calling you ‘cancer brain’ or ‘Russian bot.’
But anyways, since you decided that I’m one of your ‘Captain Ahabs’, I can’t help but notice that one of the things KP previously said seems to be true.
You know the part where you ‘throw everything but the kitchen sink’ when you are in a bind and backed into a corner.
A quick history lesson on the Sewol disaster.
When the Sewol sank with the loss of life in 2014, yes there was anger and disgust and that was directed at the Korean Coast Guard for its gross mishandling of the rescue and the owner of the ship for the unsafe mishandling by the ship’s crew and modifications that made her unstable.
The ship owner would later commited suicide, after trying to avoid arrest and prosecution and then Pres. Park would abolish the Korean Coast Guard in name. However KCG would be resurrected sometime later.
The anger that led to candelight protests were more because of then Pres. Park’s ‘friend’ and the belief that Pres. Park was involved in her ‘friend”s use of the Presidential Office for her influence peddling scheme which also involved her ‘friend’ collecting goodies along the way, including getting her daughter into a prestigious university even though she wasn’t qualified.
Sewol did come out when suspicions arose on what she did and where she was during the critical first seven hours of the disaster, but most people with the exception of some of the families of the deceased didn’t pay much attention to it.
Anyways here’s the summarized sentence translated from Korean.
Although the Sewol disaster is mentioned, it comes after the judgement and was IMO not the main reason for her impeachment.
Judgement (summary)
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The claimee said in a public discourse that she would cooperate as much as possible in finding the truth, but she did not respond to the investigations of the prosecution and special prosecutors, and refused the warranted search of the Blue House.
The series of words and actions of the claimee in relation to the prosecution in this case does not reveal the will to protect the Constitution to prevent repeated acts of violation of the law.
In the end, the claimee’s unconstitutional and illegal acts betrayed the trust of the people and should be viewed as serious unacceptable acts of violation of the law from the standpoint of protecting the Constitution.
Since the negative impact and ripple effect of the claimee’s violation of the law on the constitutional order is significant, it can be said that the benefits of protecting the Constitution by impeaching the claimee are overwhelmingly large.
Accordingly, the judgement is adjudicated by the unanimous opinion of all judges.
The claimee, President Park Geun-hye, is hereby impeached from Office
In relation to the Sewol ferry disaster, it is our opinion that the claimee did not violate the duty to protect the right to life, but violated the duty of faithful performance under the Constitution and the duty of faithfulness under the State Public Officials Act.
Also, there is the supplementary opinion of Judge Ahn Chang-ho that the impeachment trial in this case is not a matter of ideology of conservatives and progressives, but of protecting the constitutional order, and that in order to end the political abusiveness, the impeachment must be decided.
This concludes the sentence.
And here’s the link from the Korean wiki page in regards to then Pres. Park’s impeachment trial.
The Constitution Court either dismissed or found her not liable for most of the presented charges with the exception of abuse of power in regards to her ‘friend’ Choe Soon-sil.
https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%95%EA%B7%BC%ED%98%9C_%EB%8C%80%ED%86%B5%EB%A0%B9_%ED%83%84%ED%95%B5
And for the legal types the 89 page judgement from the Constitutional Court in regards to the impeachment of then Pres. Park Geun-hye.
https://www.lawtimes.co.kr/data/file/article-attached/article-108620.pdf