"National governance ability is like a foolish king in the old days"
"80% of making President Park was the media"
On the 6th, Yoo Si-min, former chairman of the People’s Livelihood Foundation, appeared on the YouTube channel 'Yeollin Gonggam TV' / Photo by 'Yeollin Gonggam TV' YouTube channel capture
[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Ju-hyung] Yoo Si-min, former chairman of the People’s Livelihood Foundation (Noh Moo-hyun Foundation), has drawn attention by saying that former President Park Geun-hye, who was released through a special New Year’s pardon, is "guilty of becoming president."
On the 6th, Yoo appeared on the progressive YouTube channel 'Open Sympathy TV' and said, "Park is a representative figure created by legacy media."
He continued, "Park can only speak short sentences with baby talk-level language skills, but legacy media praised this as 'concise speech.' They even said she had an 'aura like turning on 100 fluorescent lights.' Eighty percent of making Park Geun-hye president was the media," he pointed out.
Yoo argued that although Park’s ability to govern was insufficient, she did not commit a major crime herself.
He said, "Park’s governance ability was like that of a foolish king in the old days. She was a foolish ruler completely lacking in statecraft and unable to discern right from wrong," but added, "Becoming president is the crime; I don’t think she deliberately used the office to do bad things after becoming president."
Regarding why Park was able to be elected president despite her lack of ability, Yoo said, "Until 2012, legacy media dominated," and predicted, "Now that the era of new media has come, the media environment will no longer tilt toward the conservative side as before."
Former President Park Geun-hye was released as of midnight on the 31st of last month. / Photo by Yonhap News
Meanwhile, Park was included in the Moon Jae-in administration’s '2022 New Year Special Pardon' list announced on the 24th of last month and was released at midnight on the 31st of last month.
At a briefing held at the Government Seoul Office, Park Beom-gye, Minister of Justice, explained the decision to pardon Park by saying, "I understand that President Moon Jae-in considered it from the perspectives of public consensus, judicial justice, national unity, and conflict healing," and added, "Park’s health condition was also a very important criterion for the special pardon."
Park, who is known to have recently experienced deteriorating health while imprisoned at Seoul Detention Center, has been receiving inpatient treatment since the 22nd of last month. Originally, she was scheduled to receive treatment for one month, but after a specialist’s opinion that more than six weeks of hospitalization was necessary, she is expected to remain hospitalized at least until February 2. Accordingly, Park’s release procedure was also carried out at Samsung Seoul Hospital in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, where she is currently hospitalized.
Previously, Park was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the 'state manipulation' scandal and had been serving her sentence. On the 30th of last month, a book compiling letters she sent to her supporters while in prison, titled 'Longing Does Not Happen to Just Anyone,' was published and became the number one bestseller in South Korea.
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