Better to be Zhang Liang than Han Xin — I agree with Attorney Kim Kyung-ho

Shared from Attorney Kim Kyung-ho's Facebook
【Zhang Liang】
- Now, we speak of "Selfless Intent" (Sashim)
On January 2, 2024, in Gadeokdo, Busan, Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck. Before and after that, he endured hundreds of search and seizure operations, successive indictments, and various trials. It was not just one person who watched over him and made him President. There was Choo Mi-ae, the Minister of Justice who pushed for the disciplinary action against Prosecutor General Yoon Suk-yeol; Park Eun-jung, the inspector in charge of that discipline; Lim Eun-jung, who wrote within the prosecution that "a prosecutor who crawls to read the room is not a prosecutor"; and Kim Yong-min, who drafted the special prosecutor and impeachment bills.
In October 2026, they are being targeted one after another. The catalyst is Kim Ji-yong. When opposition was raised against appointing someone who signed a collective statement of prosecutors opposing Yoon Suk-yeol's discipline as the head of the Central Investigation Agency in 2020, the President called it "self-interest" (sashim) and said, "They demand a high position despite lacking the ability." Lim Eun-jung became the first target of inspection at the Central Investigation Agency—an inspection that even the Yoon Suk-yeol government did not perform on her.
There is a scene like this in the Chu-Han Contention. After becoming Emperor, Liu Bang executed Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Ying Bu one after another. Once the rabbits were caught, the hunting dogs were boiled. The words left by the being-dragged-away Han Xin are "Tosa-gupaeng" (discarding the hunting dogs once the rabbits are caught). The only top meritorious official who survived was Zhang Liang. He declined a fief of 30,000 households and accepted only a small fief in the land of Liu, where he first met Liu Bang. He withdrew from the court, cut off his grain supplies, and studied the arts of immortality. Not standing in a position that would arouse the Emperor's suspicion—that was his way of survival.
I cautiously advise the next generation of leaders in the democratic camp: Do not be Han Xin; be Zhang Liang. If you fight now, you will be the one being boiled. I cautiously advise you to let go, take a step back, and prepare for the next time. Surviving is more important than occupying a winning position.
And I add a word to the President. Liu Bang, who boiled his meritorious officials, at least protected the realm. However, Xiang Yu, who doubted his own people, could not. He doubted and cast out Fan Zeng, and because he failed to use Han Xin, he lost him to Liu Bang.
Xiang Yu, who held Liu Bang's life in his hands while commanding an army of 400,000 at Hongmen, took his own life at the Wu River ferry four years later, leaving only twenty-eight subordinates. If you begin to doubt and cast out those who stand by your side on the day a blade meets your neck, history has already written the next scene: the shabby Wu River.
October 11, 2026.
Written by Attorney Kim Kyung-ho