In the Winter Olympics, the behavior of the South Korean athletes has caused widespread discussion. From the complaints about the food in the Winter Olympic Village, to the "old routines" of violating the rules in the short track speed skating field, to the hard mouth of the dead duck after being caught by the cheetah system, trying to save face through ** and quite confusing artistic behavior, once again challenging people's moral bottom line.
Through these small things, we can see that the root cause of the unethical behavior of South Korean athletes is the country's sick social climate and unhealthy economic development model, which has made this self-proclaimed developed country deformed.
The answer to all this needs to be found in the development history of South Korea.
On August 15, 1948, the southern part of the Korean Peninsula was established as Korea**, and Syngman Rhee was supported by the United States as the first Korean **. As the leader of the nation, Syngman Rhee focused his energies on purging dissidents and retaining the U.S. military, hoping to achieve his personal goals and confront North Korea through close ties with the United States.
During his reign, the Liberal Party became his personal tool to achieve the goal of "house slave rule", the democratic system was only superficial, and the Korean National Assembly, which symbolized the supreme power of the state, became a place where various political forces traded power for money.
Politics has plunged South Korea into a quagmire, with economic stagnation and people's livelihood in dire straits. In 1960, popular activism escalated, but Syngman Rhee saw it as an act of violence by external forces to subvert the regime.
He ordered the army to attack the unarmed crowd, killing 186 people and wounding 6,026, causing a 419 that shocked the world. This move not only aroused the anger of all the Korean people, but also expressed dissatisfaction with the United States**, which supported him, and after losing the protection of the United States, Syngman Rhee could not control the chaotic South Korea**, and submitted his resignation to the National Assembly on April 27, 1960.
After Syngman Rhee, his old subordinate Park Chung-hee staged a military coup d'état on May 16, 1961, seizing the supreme power in South Korea and being elected the third term of South Korea in October 1964.
Park Chung-hee recognized the importance of economic construction to the country's development, which was different from Syngman Rhee's power tricks. Before he came to power, South Korea had a per capita income of only $78 a year, making it a veritable low-income country.
In order to change this, he developed a new economic development program with the aim of creating a "self-sustaining economy" that was not controlled by other countries. However, at that time, South Korea did not have enough funds to support the construction of the industrial chain, coupled with the restrictions imposed by the United States and Japan on the development of South Korea.
As a result, Park Chung-hee's goal of economic independence will be difficult to achieve in the short term. Since the path of economic self-reliance does not work, we have to focus on basic processing. In order to quickly get rid of poverty, Park Chung-hee put forward the slogans of "building the country" and "exporting first", and the whole country worked together to put all the development energy on the first business.
Thanks to Park Chung-hee's efforts, South Korea's economy has undergone earth-shaking changes. In 1964, South Korea's annual exports were only $100 million, but just six years later, this figure exceeded the $10 billion mark, creating the remarkable "Miracle of the Han River".
This miracle allowed South Korea to successfully get rid of poverty, accumulate raw capital, establish the basic decision of rejuvenating the country by electronics, and vigorously develop core industries such as automobiles, shipbuilding, and machinery.
In the 70s, the average annual growth rate of the Korean manufacturing industry exceeded 166%, the proportion of heavy industry reached 54%, and the total industrial production value was the same as that of North Korea at that time, and it was known as the "Asian Four Little Tigers".
On October 26, 1979, South Korean intelligence minister Kim Jae-gyu was worried about his career due to his poor work, and the ghost sent God to assassinate Park Chung-hee. At the dinner, Kim Jae-gyu fired several shots, one of which went directly through Park Chung-hee's Cheonlinggae, killing him instantly.
The next day, Chun Doo-hwan arrested Kim Jae-gyu as the commander of the defense forces' security and used his internal forces to control the supreme power in South Korea.
After Chun Doo-hwan became the new leader, he began to work on his political ambitions. He adopted an economic strategy similar to that of Park Chung-hee, that is, based on Park's e-rejuvenation, he focused on promoting the development of science and technology in South Korea, especially the development of strategic industrial technologies, which covered all aspects of emerging industries.
In order to support these emerging industries, he selected 500 companies as key targets, including well-known Korean companies such as Samsung and Hyundai, which later became famous.
Although this approach has achieved significant results in the short term, it also has obvious *** selected enterprises due to the support of *** to gain a place in the market.
However, those companies that are not included in the program fall victim because it is difficult to stand out in the domestic and international markets without the support of the highly competitive Korean market.
And those companies that enjoy tax and policy incentives play the role of big fish in the free market, and they expand their business territory through mergers and acquisitions of small businesses, and eventually become monopolistic plutocracy.
In the era of martial arts politics, the chaebol can still pretend to be a white rabbit. But with the end of South Korea's samurai politics, the chaebols bared their fangs. After elected politics replaced martial politics, South Korea's chaebol formed an alliance of interests with various political groups, and the shadow of the chaebol was indispensable in all previous South Koreas.
Those politicians who were elected by the chaebol naturally became the spokesmen of the monopoly group in the **, so as to achieve the transfer of interests and the trading of power for money. Take the former ** Lee Myung-bak as an example, he was a senior executive of Hyundai Group and served Hyundai Group for 27 years.
After becoming the first **, the first thing he did was to clear the voices of dissatisfaction with the chaebol in South Korea, and forced the former ** Roh Moo-hyun, who advocated the liquidation of the chaebol, to jump off the cliff and contribute to the modern monopoly road.
What's even more terrifying is that even if the power-for-money transaction with the chaebol is exposed, only one person will be imprisoned in the end, and the punishment of the chaebol can be said to be insignificant.
For example, a few years ago, the girlfriend door incident that caused an uproar in South Korea, the Samsung Group that supported Park Geun-hye** was only punished symbolically, and the sentenced Samsung head Lee Jae-yong only enjoyed the treatment of a luxurious single room in prison, and even remotely commanded the important business of the Samsung Group, which was not so much serving a prison sentence as a vacation.
Three: The distorted social atmosphere of the chaebol is rampant, resulting in an extreme imbalance in South Korea's economic development, and the development of every country has a regional imbalance, but the problem in South Korea is particularly prominent, which is the so-called "Seoul disease".
Since the late 70s of the last century, the proportion of Seoul's GDP has remained high, even exceeding 30% at one point, and this extremely unbalanced phenomenon has made the Korean people regard Seoul as a sacred city.
The influx of labor and high-tech talent into Seoul has caused housing prices in the area to skyrocket. In this context, the chaebols and high housing prices put a double pressure on young South Koreans, who have become screws in the state apparatus of South Korea and are used to help the chaebols gain more wealth and power.
This situation has led to the extraction of the value of their lives to zero. In order to motivate young Koreans to better serve the chaebols, the chaebols are keen to create more entertainment for the general public, so the highly developed entertainment industry in South Korea is a product of the chaebols.
In the booming entertainment industry, the chaebols have shaped a seemingly perfect world for young Koreans, but behind it lies a dark side to power trading. Those female artists who shine on the stage have become tools for big capital and ** to exchange interests, and their lives were overwhelmed, and finally ended their lives by suicide.
The arrogance of the chaebol and the inaction of the ** have made the social atmosphere in South Korea increasingly distorted, and the rise of extreme feminism has exacerbated the antagonism between the sexes. Young people are beginning to see love and marriage as an exchange of money and career, while blind dates are seen as negotiations between the two countries.
Under the pressure of life, Koreans began to find comfort in religion, but the relaxed religious policy made the ** religion in South Korea to carry out localized reforms, resulting in many people with bad intentions to mix into the church, change the original doctrine into a cult, and achieve the purpose of collecting money by controlling the thinking of believers.
South Korea, the East Asian powerhouse, has long been seen as the strategic fulcrum of the United States in the region. However, feel-good Koreans always think that they can control international affairs, and their hearts are full of dreams of great power, and they even incorporate this fantasy into the movie "The Yellow Sea."
The film shows South Korea's dream of changing from a chess piece to a chess player on a chessboard in an exaggerated way, and this imaginative film has caused a massive movie-going craze in South Korea.
Throughout the history of the Korean Peninsula, the Koreans have always played the role of dependence. From being a vassal state of the Ming and Qing dynasties, to being taken over by the Japanese after the First Sino-Japanese War, and now being trampled under the feet of the Americans, the slightest carelessness will be subject to the whipping of the United States.
These historical facts have strengthened the conviction that Koreans can become real chess players and no longer be dominated by others. However, the truth is brutal. No matter how hard Koreans imagine and try, they can't really be chess players on the board.
They are still pawns, just pawns manipulated by others. Therefore, South Koreans should be soberly aware of their status and not make unnecessary illusions, but should be down-to-earth and strive to improve their strength in order to occupy a place in international affairs.
A long period of repression has given South Koreans an unrealistic illusion that they think they have created everything in the universe, all of which is the result of their cultural evolution.
In the pseudo-history books written by the Koreans, they even directly describe themselves as the birthplace of world civilization. This kind of self-boasting, even if it is self-satisfied in the circle, is already unacceptable.
What is even more surprising is that South Koreans have to express their arrogance and ignorance in the international community, which ultimately leads to them becoming a laughing stock in the eyes of Internet fungi.
In South Korea's strange **, the above-mentioned negative factors are just scabies in Koreans. And what really hinders South Korea's development is the rampant chaebol and the instability of the first place.
South Korea's political structure, while modeled after the separation of powers in the United States, is only superficial. For example, the term of office of members of the South Korean National Assembly and local councilors is 4 years, and the term of office is 5 years, which leads to too frequent elections in South Korea, especially in the year before leaving office.
While frequent elections are a matter of procedure, the deeper problem is that South Korea's political parties are not the product of civil society, but the result of a complete copy of Western party systems.
As a result of this rush for quick success, South Korea's political parties have experienced nearly 200 years of political party development in Western countries in just 60 years, and there are many problems, including the individualization of political parties, the instability of political parties, the short-term nature of political parties, and sectarianism and regionalism.
The complexity of South Korea's political environment makes it difficult for political parties to form a fixed political program, and parliamentarians and politicians lack the enthusiasm to serve the people, and they can easily change their political positions for their own interests, and are regarded as opportunistic politicians.
As a result of this behavior, they have lost the trust and loyalty of the populace and have been unable to develop their loyal supporters. In order to consolidate their position, some politicians adopt authoritarianism, and the party leader is arbitrary in major affairs, and paternalistic politics is their common means.
This authoritarianism has led to the formation of a deformed culture of seniors and seniors within South Korea, where seniors can squeeze juniors at will, and when they grow up, they may become the kind of people they once hated the most.
This phenomenon has left South Korean politicians lacking political independence, initiative, and enthusiasm.
Conclusion: Although South Korea has been recognized as a developed country, there are still many internal problems. The deformed politics and the social climate of inferiority and arrogance make it look like a fledgling that has not yet fully grown, and it is top-heavy.
In these uncertain times, South Korea must be cautious or risk falling into an irreparable abyss. The title of developed country is more like a poison given by Western society.
References: A study on the impact of Park Chung-hee's economic foreign policy on South Korea's economic development; Philosophy and Humanities; Economic and Management Sciences; the "fate" of South Korea and its influencing factors; Social Sciences.