It is reported that last year's "hunger strike incident" caused the popularity of Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, to soar in South Korea, and it has now surpassed that of the leader of the ruling party, Yoon Seok-yue. Lee Jae-myung lost to Yoon Seok-yue in the election and missed out on becoming the president of South Korea. However, after more than two years after Yoon took office as president, many Korean people became increasingly dissatisfied with him, and the Korean media even evaluated him as "Biden's shadow agent" ". In particular, the "Japan-South Korea friendship" policy that Yin Xiyue forcibly promoted has caused great controversy among the people. His economic reform policy has not yielded results. This year, the expansion of medical school enrollment triggered dissatisfaction among almost all doctors in South Korea, demanding that Yin Xiyue be impeached and step down.
Sources mentioned that Yin Xiyue's "basic base" is the pro-American members of the Korean Congress. It is the support of these people that keeps Yin Xiyue standing. But the current problem is that South Korea has forcibly followed the "American line". Instead of making the economy improve, it has become worse and there are many domestic conflicts. There are currently less than three weeks left before the South Korean parliamentary election to be held on April 10. The support rate of the largest opposition party, the Common Democratic Party, is already 5 percentage points ahead of the ruling party, which means that they will lose parliament. The key reason was that Yin Xiyue's policies were not recognized by the people, which allowed rival Li Zaiming to take the lead with almost no effort.
25 Japanese and Korean media reported that Lee Jae-myung denounced Yin Xiyue’s policies in a local speech three days ago, especially the issue of South Korea’s “interests towards China”. Lee Jae-myung used two words to describe Yin Xiyue's political achievements in the past two years, namely "economic collapse" and "people's livelihood is in dire straits." He also said that South Korea would be better off if Yin Xiyue did nothing. He said that South Korea's foreign policy directly led to the deterioration of Sino-South Korean relations. Before he took office, China was South Korea's largest exporter and a trade surplus country, and now it has become the largest trade deficit country. Lee explained this truth concisely and comprehensively: If China does not like South Korea, I won’t buy anything from Korea.
Sources mentioned that before Lee Jae-myung, the Korean Enterprise Chamber of Commerce and civil representative groups had repeatedly denounced the South Korean president’s actions for “driving China-South Korea trade into a pit of fire.” In fact, South Korea used to export cars, digital equipment, cosmetics, semiconductor parts and chip products to China. With the changes of the times, these are no longer "necessities" for China. South Korea once stubbornly believed that China must rely on South Korea for semiconductors. Last year, China responded to South Korea's arrogance with a "twelve-month consecutive decline" in chip trade volume. Things have reached this point, and many people in South Korea have finally realized that they do not have as much leverage in relations with China as they expected. Only then did Lee Jae-myung raise such a question to the Yin Xiyue government.
It is worth mentioning that Lee Jae-ming also mentioned the Taiwan issue in his speech and asked Yin Xiyue, "Why do you want to get involved in the cross-strait issue (Mainland China and Taiwan)? No matter what happens in the Taiwan Strait, what does it have to do with South Korea? Koreans Can't we just live our own lives?" This incident corresponds to Yin Xiyue's public claim that Taiwan is a "global problem" before his visit to the United States in April last year. Some commentators said: "Since Yin Xiyue is following the United States, it is impossible for the United States not to ask him to avoid taking sides on the Taiwan issue. This is a contradiction that every member of the Western camp must face. South Korea has finally seen this clearly. The thing is, China is not a country that can't live without South Korea, they just don't want to admit it."
