On October 24, 2016 (September 24, 2016 in the lunar calendar), South Korean President Park Geun-hye's best friend "interfered in politics" scandal. Photo: On the 29th, in Seoul, South Korea, about 20,000 people participated in a candlelight march to demand that President Park Geun-hye step down. On the evening of October 24, 2016, South Korea's JTBC TV released a bombshell report, saying that their president of the Republic of Korea has been manipulated by this elderly woman named Choi Soon-sil. Once the incident was exposed, South Korean public opinion boiled over. On the evening of October 24, 2016, South Korea's JTBC TV exposed the files in a laptop computer allegedly owned by Choi Soon-sil. The documents included 44 transcripts of Ms. Park's speeches or statements, dated from 2012 to 2014, a long time before and after her election as president (Ms. Park became South Korea's 18th president at the end of 2012). The dates on the computer showed that the documents were passed to Choi Soon-sil hours or days before the speech, and many paragraphs were marked in red. Subsequent in-depth investigations by South Korean media revealed that Choi Soon-sil even influenced the appointment and removal of ministerial personnel in the South Korean government and South Korea's defense and foreign policy. Park Geun-hye apologized to the people for the leak of the speech on October 25. Park Geun-hye apologized to the people for the concerns caused by the leak of the speech. She admitted to asking Choi for advice on some speeches and materials, but said she stopped doing so after the Blue House's secretary team was ready. Ms. Park also said that Choi had offered her help when she was in a difficult time. Demand for Choi's arrest On October 26, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office sent people to raid two foundations, the Mir Consortium and the K Sports Consortium, as well as Choi's home, for further investigation. The two foundations are believed to be controlled by Choi Soon-sil. The Mir Consortium and the K Sports Consortium have raised 75 billion won (about 448 million yuan) in less than a year from Samsung, Hyundai, LG and other large companies. South Korean media reported that Choi Soon-sil was suspected of using her relationship with Park Geun-hye to force these big companies to "open the purse generously." The "cronies interfering in politics" incident continued to ferment. South Koreans held a large-scale rally of nearly 10,000 people in the center of Seoul on October 29, demanding that Park Geun-hye step down and find out the truth of the incident. According to Yonhap News Agency on October 29, the Special Investigation Department of the South Korean Procuratorate, which is responsible for investigating Choi Soon-sil's "doubts about the monopoly of state affairs," confiscated and searched the residences of relevant core figures such as the Chief Secretary of the Blue House An Jong-fan Policy Adjustment and the Assistant Secretary of the Blue House of Zheng Haocheng. Prosecutors and search officers went to the homes of Chief Secretary An and Secretary Zheng, Chief Secretary Jin Hanxiu Blue House, Chief Secretary Cao Rengen's former speech recording secretary, and the second official of the Admiralty Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, among others, and confiscated computer hard drives and various documents and materials. In order to confiscate and search the offices of Chief Secretary An, Secretary Zheng, Chief Executive Jin and others, prosecutors also sent search teams to the offices of these people in the Blue House to investigate. According to a person related to the Blue House, "If you want to confiscate and search the security area, you need to negotiate the process and method in accordance with relevant laws." It is reported that the Blue House did not allow the search team to enter the Blue House office when the prosecutors tried to execute the confiscation search warrant. The Blue House said that "the legal principle is to submit it voluntarily. According to the survey results released by the South Korean polling agency "Gallup Korea" on the 28th, the approval rate of South Koreans for Park Geun-hye is 17%, the lowest since she took office. According to a poll conducted by the company "Real Meter" on the 26th, Park Geun-hye's approval rate is only 17.5%. Realmeter polls show that 42.3% of South Koreans advocate that she resign or be impeached by the National Assembly. The matter has become more and more acrimonious, and the intricate relationship between Park Geun-hye and Chung Youla's family has slowly emerged. On the 29th, a large-scale rally of nearly 10,000 people was held in the center of Seoul, so reporters suspected that Park Geun-hye privately leaked state secrets and allowed people without official positions to interfere in politics - Choi Soon-sil entered the South Korean political stage as a close friend and confidant of the president, but she was not a government official and should not have access to classified documents. For example, the documents show that on December 28, 2012, Park Geun-hye held a separate meeting with then-President Lee Myung-bak as president-elect, and Choi Soon-sil received a "dialogue document" of the content of the two's remarks four hours before the meeting. The document contains "What contacts are there between the North and the South now?" "Three secret contacts with North Korea" and other classified information related to national security. JTBC also speculated that Choi Soon-sil may even have known the actual content of the conversation between Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak later. In addition, Park Geun-hye's unsatisfactory best friend was also exposed to corruption. According to Korean media, Choi Soon-sil was accused of installing close associates to hold key positions in two major South Korean consortiums and embezzling public funds through various German and South Korean companies. According to public information, Choi Soon-sil's father, Choi Tae-min, is considered to be Park Geun-hye's "mentor" and had a great influence on Park Geun-hye after her mother died. Choi Soon-sil, who is four years younger than Park Geun-hye, has been "like sisters" since childhood. Park Geun-hye said that Choi Soon-sil was the one who bailed out his troubles. During his presidential campaign, Choi had put forward some good personal opinions on his campaign speeches, image promotion drafts, etc. For this reason, he also consulted Choi Soon-sil on some speech materials after he took office as president. South Korean media reported that the ruling Saenuri Party immediately expressed regret for President Park Geun-hye's apology for admitting that "there are cronies interfering in politics". Some public opinion believes that by coming forward to admit the truth and apologizing, this has proved that "Choi Soon-sil-men" has become an irrefutable fact of power corruptive practices by President Park and the Blue House. As the "girlfriend interfering in politics" scandal fermented, the South Korean media revealed more inside stories. According to the latest news from Korean media, in addition to Choi Soon-sil, there are seven other women who interfere in state affairs. This small group is called "Eight Goddess Women" by insiders and has "shaken the foundation of the country". At present, the Korean political circle has "qualified" these eight people, including female entrepreneurs, the second generation of the rich, and the wives of people related to the Blue House, etc., but the suspects have taken the initiative to distance themselves on the 28th, saying that "I have not heard of this organization". On the 29th, a large-scale rally of nearly 10,000 people was held in the center of Seoul. Who is Choi Soon-sil and Park Geun-hye "as close as sisters?" South Korean media described that 60-year-old Choi Soon-sil and 64-year-old Park Geun-hye are "as close as sisters." According to Korean media reports, for Park Geun-hye, whose parents died young, estranged from her siblings, and never married, Choi Soon-sil's existence has long gone beyond blood kinship. The media revealed that she had gone to jewelry stores to buy accessories for Park Geun-hye and had meals with Park Geun-hye at the official residence. Young Park Geun-hye (right) and Choi Soon-sil (left) Fathers were Park Geun-hye's "mentors." Choi Soon-sil's father, Choi Tae-min, was considered Park Geun-hye's "mentor" and had a great influence on Park Geun-hye after her mother died. When Park Geun-hye was a lawmaker in her early years, Choi Soon-sil's ex-husband, Chung Yun-hui, was Park Geun-hye In 2007, it was revealed that Zheng Yunhui was Choi Taimin's son-in-law, and then faded out of politics. Access to state secrets South Korean media broke the news that Choi Soon-sil had access to state secrets documents on sensitive issues such as inter-Korean relations, the alliance between South Korea and the United States, and the transfer of personnel from the presidential Blue House guard room. Others said that Choi Soon-sil's influence did not stop there, from Park Geun-hye's dress and speeches, to the selection of the presidential secretary team, and even other government affairs. Who is Choi Taimin? In China, it is the "great fairy" of "jumping gods". He first believed in Buddhism, then converted to Catholicism, and then founded the so-called "Eternal Life Church". Park Geun-hye and Choi Taimin cut the ribbon together. A photo of Park Geun-hye and Choi Taimin cutting the ribbon together 40 years ago was leaked online. The young and beautiful Park Geun-hye was affectionately Maimai to the bald-haired Choi Taimin. There were even rumors in the Korean media that Choi Taimin and Park Geun-hye were actually in a relationship between a man and a woman. Girlfriend's nightmare: The best friend turned out to be the little mother of the best friend. According to a 2007 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, the United States Embassy in South Korea reported that "Mr. Choi Taimin had completely controlled Park Geun-hye's body and mind during her formative period." Choi Taimin had said before his death that "Park Geun-hye and I are a couple in the spiritual world, not South Korea's female president suspected of being controlled by a cult leader? Choi Soon-sil's father, Choi Tae-min, was a priest in public and later founded the Immortality Church. Choi Tae-min claims to be the immortality cult Danjun, Miller Buddha, and has great energy. Like most cult leaders, Choi Tae-min married five times, getting many women pregnant and giving birth to children for him. In 1974, when Park Geun-hye's mother was assassinated and died, Choi Tae-min first approached Miss Park, who was only 22 years old, claiming that she could have a heart-to-heart with Park Geun-hye's mother. Although there is no conclusive evidence that South Korean President Park Geun-hye was brainwashed and controlled by the religious organization, it is a fact that she was influenced by the force and allowed outsiders to interfere in politics. Now the South Korean media has questioned that Choi Soon-sil's huge wealth in buying many luxury houses in Germany is also related to Park Geun-hye. Choi Soon-sil was involved in the decision-making process of THAAD's entry into South Korea? South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Wen Shangjun denied at a regular press conference on October 31, 2016 that the Blue House cronies were involved in the decision-making process of "THAAD" entry into South Korea, saying it was baseless. According to Yonhap News Agency, Wen Shangjun said that the decision-making process of deploying "THAAD" in the US military in South Korea was carried out in strict accordance with the agenda of the highest leadership level of the two governments. On February 2, after Scaparrotti, then the commander of the US military in South Korea, suggested to Defense Minister Han Minqiu to deploy "THAAD" in South Korea, the two sides finally decided to deploy "THAAD" in South Korea on July 8 after legal consultations between South Korea and the United States.