On October 14, 2019, the 25-year-old popular Korean actress Choi Sulli was found dead at home. However, the day before, Cui Xueli also participated in an advertising shoot arranged by the company, and had been interacting with fans who supported her on her social media. Ther

On October 14, 2019, the 25-year-old Korean popular actress Choi Sulli was found dead at home.

However, the day before, Cui Xueli also participated in an advertising shoot arranged by the company, and had been interacting with fans who supported her on her social media. Therefore, Cui Xueli's death caused an uproar among her fan base.

Since the top Korean girl group members at the time also had many domestic fans, Cui Xueli's death also attracted the attention of many domestic media and netizens. However, what is shocking is that only two days later, the South Korean police concluded that Cui Xueli committed suicide and hastily announced the end of the investigation.

While domestic netizens are still puzzled by the ridiculous actions of the Korean police, the Korean people are no longer surprised, because there are various signs that Cui Xueli’s death involves a Korean policeman and even the government cannot afford to offend The figure is Lee Jae-yong, the head of the Samsung chaebol known as South Korea’s “shadow president”.

When it comes to Samsung, the top leader among South Korean chaebols, we have to mention the proverb that everyone in South Korea knows: "The three things Koreans can't avoid in their lives are tax, death and Samsung!". As a complex multinational enterprise covering many fields including electronics, finance, machinery, chemicals, entertainment, medicine, etc., Samsung Group has considerable influence in the world economy, and this influence reaches even more in South Korea. To an astonishing extent.

Many people in China who lack understanding of Korean chaebol politics will simply think of Samsung as a mobile phone brand that has lost its glory, or as a pretty good home appliance manufacturer. People who know more will also know that Samsung has considerable strength in the field of chip manufacturing, but few Chinese people know that Samsung's influence in South Korea has long penetrated into every aspect of every Korean's life, even the Korean government We must also bow before the plutocrats.

At its peak, the Samsung Group alone controlled 33% of South Korea’s economic lifeline. It can be said that as long as the Samsung Group wants to, it can use its economic influence to influence all government decisions of the South Korean government that do not involve the core interests of the United States. This includes promoting laws and regulations that are beneficial to its own development, interfering in the appointment of government officials, interfering in the judgment results of the judicial system, etc. Therefore, as the head of this giant group, Lee Jae-yong, who succeeded his father as chairman of Samsung Electronics, is the well-deserved "shadow president" of South Korea.

If a child from a wealthy family is described as being born with a golden spoon in his mouth, then the "gold spoon" that Lee Jae-yong was born with is undoubtedly the group with the highest gold content in the world. As the then head of Samsung, Lee Kun-hee The eldest son, his birth undoubtedly attracted the attention of all Korean society.

Like most children from rich families, Lee Jae-yong has received the top education under the arrangement of his family since he was a child. After graduating from the top-ranked Seoul National University in South Korea, he went to Keio University in Japan, where wealthy children gather, and studied business management at the world-famous Harvard Business School. After graduation, he returned to Samsung Group to start front-line management business.

It can be said that Lee Jae-yong’s youth resume is a very standard succession process for rich children. If there are no accidents, as Lee Kun-hee’s eldest son and only son, taking over the Samsung Group is undoubtedly a sure thing, but how has the power of the chaebol family been inherited? Everything is smooth sailing, and accidents that shouldn't happen eventually happen.

Compared with Lee Jae-yong, who is mediocre in his step-by-step career, his sister Lee Fuzhen's performance in business is amazing.

Perhaps it is precisely because in the Korean upper class society where the patriarchal mentality is extremely serious, Lee Fuzhen did not have as heavy a burden as his brother Lee Jae-yong from the beginning, and he did not have to worry about making mistakes. Taking advantage of Samsung Group's abundant financial and human resources, Li Fuzhen carried out drastic reforms in hotel management, and soon achieved outstanding results and earned high profits for Samsung Group.

Coupled with Li Fuzhen's outstanding appearance that is not inferior to that of female stars, he is not only loved and relied on by his father Li Kunxi, but also has high popularity among the Korean people. He was even promoted to be the first female president of Samsung Group since its establishment. Although the business managed by Lee Fuzhen is only the non-core hotel business of Samsung Group, the rumor that Lee Fuzhen will replace his elder brother Lee Jae-yong as the next head of Samsung Group has been widely circulated in Korean society.

Just when everyone thought that Lee Jae-yong’s heir status would be in doubt, an explosive news broke that shocked South Korea. Lee Fuzhen’s marriage broke down! You must know that Li Fuzhen's husband, Ren Youzai, is not a well-matched son of a wealthy family. He was originally Li Fuzhen's bodyguard, but Li Fuzhen decided to marry the latter despite his family's objections. Ren Youzai suddenly became the male version of the Korean population. Cinderella". But just when Li Fuzhen's career was at its peak, news of the two's divorce suddenly spread, and all kinds of hidden secrets suddenly spread everywhere. The two parties also launched a protracted litigation battle to compete for the custody of their children.

In the end, Li Fuzhen not only paid 14.1 billion won in compensation for this marriage, but was also exposed to a large number of scandals, which exhausted her father's expectations for her and the persona of a strong woman she had established over the years, and was lost in ashes. The capital that competed for the identity of the heir sadly withdrew.

If the drastic changes in Li Fuzhen’s marriage make it difficult to determine whether Lee Jae-yong will end up, then the death of his other sister Lee Yin-xin has existed from beginning to end, and there are rumors that Lee Jae-yong added fuel to the flames.

also fell in love with a poor boy who was blocked by his family. Again, only the eldest brother, Lee Jae-yong, was willing to give material support. But unlike her eldest sister Li Fuzhen, who had struggled to support her marriage for more than ten years, Li Yinxin, who ran away from home in anger and went to study at New York University in the United States, died inexplicably in the hotel where she lived on November 18, 2005.

To this day, there are still many mysteries about the death of Samsung's little princess Li Yinxin. Some say she hanged herself, others say she died in an accident. There are also various theories about the cause of death, such as suicide for love and depression. Samsung Group seems to be covering the sky with one hand in South Korea. He also showed little interest in finding out Li Yinxin's death. Perhaps the Samsung Group's indifferent attitude towards the death of the little princess has said enough from a certain perspective.

Lee Jae-yong, who had thus overcome almost all obstacles to succession, seemed to be able to sit back and relax on the road to succeeding Samsung, until a special man climbed to the top of South Korean politics and faced the South Korean chaebol group headed by Samsung Group. After launching a fierce attack, this person is Moon Jae-in, the president of South Korea who was born as a civilian.

As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, for ordinary people in South Korea, behemoths like Samsung Group cannot be avoided or avoided throughout their lives, even celebrities who are sought after by millions of fans are no exception.

Even before Cui Xueli’s death, many people discovered many subtle clues from her social accounts, including bruises on her body from abuse and whipping, and occasional inexplicable comments that seemed like she was asking for help. The police responsible for the investigation after her death announced that the notepad found at the scene had nothing to do with Cui Xueli's death, and no documents suspected of being a suicide note were found, but they withheld all these exhibits and refused to show them to the public.

After Cui Xueli’s death, her friends revealed that Cui Xueli had been forced to remove her uterus before her death and provided dirty sexual services to the top executives of major chaebols. This is why after Cui Xueli’s death, the police forcibly took away the body from the family members who resisted the autopsy. , and the main reasons for changing the final autopsy results. His experience can be said to be exactly the same as that of Jang Ja-yeon, who was forced to serve chaebols hundreds of times and committed suicide after multiple abortions. And more revelations show that these are just the tip of the iceberg of Korean chaebols keeping popular female stars as sex slaves. This kind of suffocating to desperate oppression and abuse has long been a tacit norm in the Korean entertainment industry. .

However, despite countless evidence pointing to Lee Jae-yong, who was the vice chairman of Samsung Electronics at the time, the Korean judicial department was still unable to charge him with related crimes, because it was due to the efforts of the Korean police themselves that this The evidence in this regard has always been "seriously insufficient".

However, the boiling public dissatisfaction gave Moon Jae-in the confidence and public opinion power to attack the chaebol. Moon Jae-in, a lawyer, personally approved the establishment of an investigation team as president to investigate Lee Jae-yong’s alleged corruption case involving former President Park Geun-hye. A case was filed for special investigation. Obviously Moon Jae-in hopes to change the situation in which the South Korean government and economy are controlled by major chaebols by attacking Samsung Group.

But the final result once again proved who is the real person in power in South Korea. This highly publicized trial of the century was raised high but fell gently. Under the supervision of a luxurious team of lawyers, Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to two years of probation and two years of probation and was released in court. When he walked out of the court, he still had time to smile and wave to the reporters who were watching, showing the demeanor of the crown prince of Samsung and bringing South Korea to the forefront. The face of the government and the dignity of the judiciary were casually trampled under their feet.

In 2020, with the death of Lee Kun-hee, the head of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-yong was finally able to gradually take over the power of Samsung Group. By October 27, 2022, after Lee Jae-yong was officially promoted to the chairman of Samsung Electronics Association, he has become He became the new head of Samsung Group and confirmed his status as the shadow president of South Korea.

Many people may be confused when talking about this. Every country has no shortage of large and powerful companies. In terms of assets alone, the Korean chaebols headed by Samsung are not at the top of the wealth rankings. Why are Korean chaebols the only ones? How can you achieve such a transcendent status in your own country and even suppress the government in turn? This actually has a very deep connection with South Korea's own political environment.

After World War II, as a bridgehead established by Western forces led by the United States in East Asia, South Korea has extremely important strategic value in geopolitics. Because of this, the United States has always firmly held South Korea's sovereignty in its own hands to prevent the emergence of a South Korean regime that would violate itself. Therefore, until now, even the wartime command of South Korea's military has been controlled by the United States. Even if South Korea is suddenly invaded, the South Korean government must first ask the United States for instructions before it can mobilize its own troops.

This is true even for the fundamental military power of the country. It is natural to imagine what the state of other sovereignty such as diplomacy and justice is. Therefore, South Korea has always been in a state of severe castration of sovereignty, and the government’s control and influence on the country The strength was greatly weakened as a result. When there is a lack of a strong enough government, the vacant power is divided among the plutocrats who have accumulated a large amount of capital. When the powerful plutocrats control power through various means, they will use the resources in their hands to further consolidate their strength. . After long-term accumulation, behemoths such as Samsung Group will be born in the country that even the government can't do anything about. At this time, the South Korean government, which has been weak for a long time, wants to take action against these chaebols, but it is already powerless. This is why to this day, South Korean presidents often cannot escape the fate of being liquidated and sentenced after stepping down, or even while still in office. However, South Korea’s chaebols have deep-rooted and unshakable strength and status.

In February this year, South Korean prosecutors once again filed a lawsuit against Lee Jae-yong in the name of "illegal inheritance of business rights." The result of the preliminary trial was still an acquittal without any surprise. Even the South Korean prosecutors themselves There is no hope of continuing the appeal. It is foreseeable that unless there are huge changes in the political landscape of East Asia, the status of South Korea's chaebols will continue to exist.