Park Geun-hye, the former South Korean **, has spent years in prison. South Korea's Supreme Court made its final ruling on January 14, 2021, and she needs to serve 22 years in prison.
This means that if there are no circumstances such as amnesty or parole, she will be released from prison by 2039 at the latest at the age of 89. However, her prison life was not peaceful. According to previous reports, since she was held in the detention center, her supporters have been shouting slogans outside the detention center every day.
One cellmate revealed that they were awakened every day by the slogans of Ms. Park's supporters. So, what is Park Geun-hye's life like in prison?
Park Geun-hye is the 18th woman in South Korea's history and the first woman to be elected with a majority of support. However, just like the "curse" of South Korea, she was ** in 2017 because of the "girlfriend interference in politics case" and was depressed.
After the assassination of her father, Park Chung-hee, she quit ** and did not return until 1997. In 2012, she won the support of voters with the slogan "Woman who marries the country" and became the best.
People from all walks of life in South Korea are looking forward to her being able to realize the three-year plan for economic innovation and create a new Korea. However, she could not escape the spell and eventually withdrew.
The Sewol shipwreck has dealt a blow to Park's image, and her "disappearance" and claimed "sacrifice" of the students who were killed have caused outrage among the South Korean public.
Coupled with the fact that it was the day when the leader of the Eternal Life Sect claimed to have been resurrected, people linked the incident to the cult "sacrifice", and Park's approval rating quickly declined.
This incident has made people see a completely different Park Geun-hye, a ** who has been linked to the cult.
In order to save her popularity, Park Geun-hye decided to exchange interests with the United States and agreed to deploy the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. This move has aroused strong opposition from China and North Korea, leading to the introduction of a number of policies aimed at South Korea, which has caused foreign capital in South Korea to flee rapidly, and South Korea's economy is in danger of collapse.
In addition, in October 2016, the old computer of Park's best friend Choi Soon-sil was restored, and a large number of documents related to South Korea and the transcript of Park's public speech were found in the computer.
Park Geun-hye was suspended from her post on December 9, 2016 due to the sinking of the "Sewol" ship and the incident of "girlfriends interfering in politics"; On March 10, 2017, the Constitutional Court of South Korea issued a judgment immediately removing him from his position.
Park Geun-hye later faced multiple criminal charges for losing "** criminal immunity".
On March 31, 2017, Park Geun-hye was approved for arrest in a South Korean court. Park Geun-hye reportedly received an arrest warrant issued by the court at around 3:05 local time.
Sources say Park Geun-hye made "preparations" in advance because she knew that she might be "confiscated" of hairpins or cosmetics after entering the detention center.
Ms. Park arrived at the Seoul Detention Center around 4:45 a.m., where about 50 supporters waited there waving national flags and demanding her release. However, these moves cannot change the fact that Park Geun-hye is being held.
According to the information, Park Geun-hye enjoys only one special treatment in the detention center — her "private room" is larger than that of other inmates.
What is Park Geun-hye's life like in the Seoul detention center? There is a report on the personal experience of a woman who was released from this detention center, revealing to us the mysterious prison life of Park Geun-hye.
It is understood that Park Geun-hye lives alone in a single room and has never participated in the detention center's "winding movement" or bathing in the public area, let alone participating in the weekly "prison activities."
Despite this, everyone in the Seoul detention center knew about Park's existence. What is even more striking is that Park Geun-hye's supporters will gather outside the Seoul Detention Center every day, chanting slogans such as "Park Geun-hye**, how are you" and "good morning", a phenomenon that has also attracted widespread attention in **.
According to the woman, although the women's cell was some distance from the outer wall, the slogans of the outside world could still be clearly heard inside the cell, and this had become theirs"Alarm clock"to wake up Park Geun-hye and other detained women on time every day.
Park's supporters are not limited to this. According to South Korea**, her die-hard fans hold it regularly"Tai Chi Flag Party", calling for Park's release.
Some extreme proponents even claim to do"Prison robbery", for example"Ai Pu will be"Zheng Guangyong, the president of the society, once called for the imitation of the French Revolution on social **"Storming the Seoul Detention Center and rescuing Park Geun-hye"feat.
However, Chung Kwang-yong quickly rejected his proposal, concluding that in a civilized country, they could not storm the Seoul detention center, and practically they could not succeed.
Of course, Park Geun-hye's supporters also want to get her out of prison early in the form of a **amnesty. However, apart from the daily "wake-up calls" of fans, Park Geun-hye's prison life is rather uneventful.
She stayed in her private room almost all the time, did not leave the house, and she refused almost all requests for visits, except for twice-weekly meetings with her lawyer, Yoo Young-ha, and even family and friend Park Geun-hye.
Especially after Park Geun-hye was imprisoned, she lived a life of "isolation".
Park Geun-hye, the longest-serving ** in South Korean history, has spent more than 4 years in prison. According to South Korea**, her prison life is very difficult and can be described as "miserable".
She lived in isolation, unable to have contact with the outside world, not even her family. In addition, her physical condition has also deteriorated, and she often feels unwell.
Ms. Park's supporters are numerous and she receives countless letters every day, and Ms. Yoo reads every letter carefully, but she never responds, according to Ms. Yoo. Because she insists that only lawyers can meet with her, she relies mainly on communicating with lawyer Liu Rongxia or reading fan letters.
In addition, Park Geun-hye, who is nearly 70 years old, is suffering from illness like many elderly people.
A 2019 report noted that Park Geun-hye underwent shoulder surgery in September of that year and spent 78 days and nights in the hospital, but this did not seem to solve her shoulder problems, and she still needed to undergo twice a week*** and had difficulty lifting her left hand above her shoulder, which was already Park's "old disease".
In addition, Park Geun-hye was also admitted to the hospital twice for lumbar spine disease**, and South Korea** once captured Park Geun-hye going to the hospital in a wheelchair, in which she was thin and pale, and obviously felt that prison life was very difficult.
Park's life in prison was fraught with hardship, not just physical pain but also psychological stress. She used to be the first highly anticipated female ** in Korean history, but now she has become a prisoner, and she is the longest prison ** in Korean history.
Her low profile and silence calmed her supporters for a while, but when the coronavirus pandemic swept the world in March 2020, Ms. Park once again spoke out, drawing attention.
In March, Ms. Yoo released a handwritten letter from Ms. Park in which she expressed concern about the coronavirus outbreak and called for rallying around the largest existing opposition bloc.
South Korea's national flag, the Taeji Flag, was once an iconic gathering place for supporters of South Korea's former Park Geun-hye, and now, Park Geun-hye herself has released an open letter that is seen as another "mobilization" of supporters.
The "largest opposition camp" mentioned in the letter, the "Future United Party", is a typical "conservative" political group. It is believed that Park Geun-hye's voice at this time is mainly due to the fact that she cannot endure the long prison life and hopes to obtain her innocence through the judicial process, but this hope is very slim.
If the "conservatives" can be used to confront Moon's "progressives" and bring the conservative Future Unification Party to power, then Park Geun-hye may be released from prison with an early "amnesty".
Because it is well known that Moon Jae-in will not be able to "pardon" Park Geun-hye, Park Geun-hye has pinned her hopes on other conservative politicians.
Park Geun-hye's "amnesty" is still uncertain, according to South Korea** reports, the chief executive of her administration had asked Lee Jun-seok, a representative of the National Power Party, to ask him to apply to ** Moon Jae-in for "amnesty" Park Geun-hye, but Lee Jun-seok did not make any response.
This suggests that even if conservatives come to power, there is still some uncertainty about Park's "amnesty."
So, from any point of view, there are many unknowns about whether Park Geun-hye will be pardoned and released from prison early, and it may be that she will have to spend a long and long decades in prison.