Various mistakes of President Park Chung-hee

People coexist with both strengths and weaknesses.
It is better to look at the positive aspects as much as possible.
Psychologically, people tend to try to erase bad memories and keep only the good ones as time passes.
I am trying to understand, in my own way, the cult-like devotion of those "2-jjik" idiots toward President Park Chung-hee.
I'll let it slide.
This is a fairly well-known fact, but I am writing it again because many people still do not know it.
If President Park Chung-hee were truly a great president,
he should have had not only economic achievements but also political achievements, and he should not have had personal greed, corruption, or malpractice, right?
Only then could he have stood on the same level as leaders like Ho Chi Minh, Ataturk, or Allende, wouldn't he?
Ho Chi Minh, Ataturk, and Allende were truly great figures, but unfortunately, President Park Chung-hee was not.
In other words, I am saying there was personal greed, corruption, and malpractice.
While President Park Chung-hee did many things well, he also did many things wrong.
He branded innocent people as spies or communists and had them executed. They were truly wronged individuals..
Even his daughter, President Park Geun-hye, publicly apologized for this. Isn't that right?
You can't deny it, can you?
What I am about to tell you now is..
The Yeungnam University incident.
There was the Gyeongju Choi clan, who were independence activists.
Ms. Choi Hee, the eldest granddaughter of the Gyeongju Choi clan, passed away in 2024 at the age of 98.
There is a lot of information about Ms. Choi Hee's life on YouTube, so those who are curious can refer to that...
Mr. Choi Jun, an independence activist from the Gyeongju Choi clan, used his entire fortune to establish Daegu University.
Mr. Choi Jun's wealth was enormous, and he used all of it to establish Daegu University, which is different from the current Daegu University.
However, that Daegu University faced management and financial difficulties. Therefore, without receiving any compensation—truly without any compensation—Mr. Choi Jun transferred ownership to Lee Byung-chul of Samsung to save Daegu University. Thus, Chairman Lee Byung-chul owned and operated Daegu University as the chairman of the board, but coincidentally, the Samsung saccharin smuggling scandal broke out. To settle the matter and resolve the situation, Chairman Lee Byung-chul donated Daegu University to the state.
Common sense would dictate that Daegu University should have become a municipal, provincial, or national university, but Park Chung-hee established the Yeungnam Academy and changed the name of Daegu University to the current Yeungnam University.
Additionally, Mr. Choi Hae-cheong established a private night college called Cheonggu College, but some members of the board of directors secretly donated Cheonggu College to President Park Chung-hee without Mr. Choi Hae-cheong's knowledge.
The current Yeungnam University (Yeungnam Academy) is a university launched by merging Daegu University and Cheonggu College like this.
And who did the Yeungnam Academy become? It became Park Chung-hee's.
In other words, President Park Chung-hee became the chairman, founder, and "cult leader" of Yeungnam University without spending a single penny, and the intentions of the founders of Daegu University and Cheonggu College were not reflected at all. Does it sound like a lie?
It is 100% true.
You can find news reports about this with just a little bit of searching.
Yeungnam University had different original founders, but the current Park family became the owners without spending a single cent.
Isn't it absurd?
That is why the term "Yeungnam University's stolen heritage" often appears in the news.
The funny thing is, the Gyeongju Choi clan has many forests, ancestral mountains, and old houses, all of which are currently owned by the Yeungnam Academy.
In other words, the right to dispose of them belongs to Yeungnam University.
It is truly appalling.