A new judge appointment ceremony is being held at the Supreme Court. [Photo = Yonhap News] 

I am not sure if writing this will get me ensnared by the Information and Communications Network Act again, but as an ignorant person who simply cannot comprehend this, I am writing this in the hope that the state will provide some explanation instead of just thinking about dragging me into a courtroom.

No matter how I look at it, South Korean politics is incomprehensible.

First of all, it is strange that there are so many people from the legal profession in South Korean politics. Judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and chief justices are certainly accomplished individuals. However, those who have only studied law are complete laymen when it comes to politics, the economy, and military affairs. 

In North Korea, where I lived, people who studied law are kept far away from political organizations or economic departments. Other countries are similar.

In some advanced nations, former judges are prohibited from practicing law after retiring from their primary profession, and in some countries, they are even relegated to administrative tasks like organizing documents. 

In truth, because those trained in law view human beings solely through the lens of the law, they treat everyone with suspicion rather than as subjects for embrace.

A friend of mine from the Central Public Prosecutor's Office in North Korea once said over drinks, “If you look at it through the law, there is no one in this world who hasn't committed a crime. That is why judges never trust people.”

Perhaps that is why, in North Korea and other countries, legal professionals are used solely as tools for maintaining the political system, and are never allowed to enter politics.

However, South Korea is the exact opposite. Those who sat in legal institutions wielding the law, earning money from criminals, and building networks through corrupt means hide away in the political arena to grab even greater power.

Then, foolish citizens, without any filtering, hand even bigger swords to such people. As a result, more than 15% of South Korea’s political sphere is occupied by these legally trained people who are ignorant of politics.

Look at how people like Han Dong-hoon, who once held the law to shake the people and the Republic of Korea, entered the political scene without even knowing what politics is, and see how much they are mocking the nation.

Look at how former chief justices have presided over all electoral districts in South Korea, sending all kinds of criminal garbage into the political arena.

Second, the South Korean political scene has become a hideout for criminals.

In North Korea, which the left wing holds in such high regard, anyone who is a criminal—or has one among their immediate family or relatives—can never enter party or government agencies. If a family member or relative becomes a criminal during their tenure, they are immediately expelled.

In other countries as well, criminals are never accepted into the political realm or state agencies that guide the general public. The public and the media would not tolerate it.

However, it is said that over 30% of South Korea's National Assembly consists of criminals. It is reported that around 30% of the candidates registered for the recent June 3rd local elections were also criminals. 

South Korea is the most politically backward country on the planet, where not only common criminals but also anti-state offenders disguise themselves as politicians to command the people and ruin the nation.

A Republic of Korea where people who once followed the orders of enemy nations, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at foreign embassies, wear the mask of a politician and command the public. A shameful country where those who have committed economic crimes and all sorts of anti-state illegalities manipulate the nation. 

A country where a person who has driven under the influence and committed various crimes serves as the Minister of Education, teaching children. A country where someone who did not even serve in the military and is riddled with all sorts of suspicions of illegal acts dictates national defense. The Republic of Korea is a country being dragged backward by a coalition of former legal professionals and criminals.

Scientifically speaking, if more than 30% of a body of pure water is contaminated with poison, it is declared undrinkable poison. Yet, in Korea, the citizens are drinking that poison.

In Korea, college students who hope to become politicians follow the example of their seniors by neglecting their studies and building their resumes through pro-North Korean, pro-Chinese, and anti-American activities that betray the nation.

This is the shameful current state of the Republic of Korea and its dark future. 

◆ Advisor Kim Tae-san

Advisor to the Korea-US Daily, former representative of a North Korean trade company in the Czech Republic. In South Korea, he has been active as a vice-director of the Institute for North Korean Social Research, providing deep insights and experience regarding inter-Korean relations and North Korean issues.