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Template:Contains Korean text Lee Myung-bak, the President of the Republic of Korea, has elicited a variety of public perceptions regarding his policies, personality, and performance as a head of state. Lee has garnered a very conflicting reputation since he started career as a politician. This has contributed his mixed reputation.

Late 2011 Crisis

September 2011

Lee Myung-bak's political stewardship has been under scrutiny after a series of arrests of Lee's closest associates in the government. These events had brought a change of fate within the Blue House and the Grand National Party. His earlier persidential campaign promised "an administration without any scandal" and "a government that can overcome economic crises" have been suddenly continued to fail around the time of his September 20-24th 2011 trip for his speech in the United Nations Headquarter. The Blue House circle of individuals has expressed nervousness as the direct allegations against Lee have suddenly appeared in the mass media and as Lee has been initially silent on the controversies.

December 2011

The bribery charges against the personal aide of his brother Lee Sang-deuk has speared criticism against President Lee, and the public exposures of the two DDoS incidents during the October 26th, 2011 by-election have also generated controversy.

Negative Image

He is often smeared as a "rat" by the South Korean liberals. This is contrasted from ex-president's Roh Mu-hyun's slanders. Lee's "rat" image later contributed to another online nickname, Jwibagi (쥐박이), a portmanteau of the Korean word for rat (쥐) and his name. The Hangul .com internet domain named after his 'Jwibagi' nickname is ironically owned by the security division of the Blue House, the official residence of the President.

President Lee Myung Bak has several nicknames and the most famous one is "2MB" which means his brain can only contain memory or data of 2 Megabytes. The nickname derives from the Korean language, in that both "Lee" and "two" are spelled the same way (이) according to the South Korean phonological convention. The MB in the name comes from "Myung Bak."

Hosts of the popular podcast, Naneun Ggomsuda used a the Korean word for Excellency, Gaka, as a nickname of President Lee Myung-bak.

CEOs vs. Politicians

GNP chairperson Hong Jun-pyo voiced his concerns about Lee in that "due to the fact that Lee is a former CEO, he runs the country like a business company" and "for a person who sleeps at midnight and wakes at 4am, he is not good at politics".

Choi Jin, a Political Science professor at Kyonggi University, explained his CEO-style of presidential leadership:

In politics, a leader should be able to capture the hearts to be successful. Unfortunately, President Lee fails in this. He works hard on what he thinks is right for the country and its people, but makes little effort to explain his motives and sincerity.

Pro-Americanism

The older brother of Lee Myung-bak, Lee Sang-deuk, told Alexander Vershbow that Lee Myung-bak was "pro-U.S. and pro-Japan to the core" during a private discussion on the free trade-related issues in 2008. He once said that South Koreans who hold anti-American beliefs are "a very small minority" during an NPR interview on the South Korea–United States Free Trade Agreement.

Choi Eun-bae, a South Korean judge once criticized President Lee for being "pro-American to the core” on Facebook after Lee's leadership pressured the National Assembly to pass the KORUS Free Trade Agreement.

Ignoring Pledges

Lee's pledges during his elections stirred disputes after he commenced his duty as a president. There has been concerns that his national-level plans are "lameducked" except for the river project right before the mid-election starting in early 2011.

Voters in the 40s age group who voted for Lee in the 2007 presidential election had voted against the Grand National Party in the October 2011 by-election based usually upon the Lee's failures of implementing policies for working class citizens.

Admnistration issues

Business-oriented Governance

Lee said that "the government's goal is to make businesses successful" during a business meeting on May 3rd, 2011. He is supportive of chaebol business groups.

Lee vowed in 2007 to "get rid of" political and "hard-line" unions. However, the general labor union scene in South Korea has eventually recovered as of late 2011 from concerns of the overall ruling party and the presidential leadership. Lee Yong-deuk, the chairman of the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, mentioned that President Lee's anti-labor union policies were crucial of transforming labor unions in South Korea into politically active groups.

Telecommunication Mismanagement

The party leader of the Democratic Party, Kim Jin-pyo, criticized the Lee governments decision to dismantle the Ministry of Information and Communication for the on-going negligence of South Korea's telecommunication security. This has later eventually been criticized by another member, Son Hak-gyu, of concerning about Korea Communications Commission's mismanagement

Counterproductive Governance

One of the biggest critics of Lee's political career, GNP politician Chung Doo-un on February 5, 2011 voiced his criticism against Lee by saying "It is natural to see how lameduck is President Lee's 4 years in office. We will agree whether who would be lameducked later this year." His editorial in Monthly Chosun (July 2011) about the July 4th party conference mentioned that Lee's later stage of his presidency is similar to ex-president Roh's later stage of presidency.

During the GNP supreme council on October 31st, 2011, after the fatal October 2011 by-election, fellow GNP politician, Won Hee-ryong had expressed discontent against Lee Myung-bak's self-praising and out of reality way of communication that does not help the public.

Political freedoms

Under the Lee Myung-bak administration, police are reportedly moving to restrict assemblies and demonstrations depending on their purposes as well as imposing fines on people who refuse on-the-street demands to present identification. Lee has been called authoritarian, and anti-labor. Yoon Yeo-jun, a former GNP member, openly concerned how Lee Myung-bak ignores democratic protocols at a public seminar on September 2011.

Amnesty International highly criticized the human rights violation caused under Lee Myung-bak's administration. Amnesty International accused Lee Myung Bak of ordering South Korean police to use excessive force against peaceful protestors who were demonstrating against Lee's policies. In contrast to his use of excessive force against the protestors, in an interview with Time magazine, President Lee said, "I fully understand the protesters' point of view on the matter" and regarding the long-lasting demonstration, he added, "Protesting culture has a deep-root in democracy of Korea and despite the ongoing political upheaval of this country, the enthusiasm that the protesters showed is one side of the dynamism we embrace and this will eventually be a positive drive of Korea's development".

Lee's government has also been criticized for maintaining surveillance illegally on Kim Jong-ik. Lee ordered a swift investigation into the case and punishment for anyone found guilty.

Former minister of the Ministry of Environment, Yoon Yeo-jun, criticized President Lee for his lack of publicness in which he valued efficiency and productivity over democratic processes.

Media freedoms

The International Federation of Journalists have condemned changes being made in the management of major broadcast media in South Korea which amount to political interference. The Lee government has been accused of trying to manipulate media to suit its political tastes by appointing executives to state-run broadcasting and some key public enterprises who are his supporters.

The Lee government has also been accused of appointing his close associates to presidencies of SKY LIFE satellite broadcasting and 24 hours news channel YTN, both of which supported his presidential campaign. The chief executives of Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation and the English broadcasting company, Arirang TV have been replaced by government supporters.

2008 Beef protests

The Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation was under court investigation over a program dealing with a beef trade deal with the United States which the IFJ local affiliate, the Journalists' Association of Korea (JAK) says is against press freedom and is in breach of the promise protecting Journalists. The program, known as 'PD Diary', was accused to deliberately distort 19 conspicuous parts of the program, including several deliberate mistranslations, which the Lee administration saw as being at least partially responsible for sparking the U.S. beef protests. The translator, Ji-Min Jung, disclosed that the producers of the program had intentionally distorted the original translation and the prosecutor's investigation result confirmed on July 31 that a false representation was made. The Lee administration claimed that the MBC program, known as 'PD Diary', deliberately distorted some parts of the program.

Norma Kang Muico, Amnesty International’s Korea researcher, said (in 2009), “We are extremely concerned that the human rights situation in South Korea has deteriorated since last year.” As an example, she mentioned the prosecution’s indictment of five people who were involved in the production of an MBC program about mad cow disease that aired in 2008. She concluded, “The freedom of the press in Korea is now facing a challenge."

According to Wikileaks documents, top officials of Lee's administration already agreed with then American ambassador, Alexander Vershbow, on January 17, 2008 to open up Korea's beef market, few months before Lee's trip to the USA on April 2008.

Counterproductive Human Resource Management

Lee Myung-bak has faced strong criticism over his choice of political appointees – many of whom are wealthy or have very close connection with him. The concern is that Lee’s appointees will favor policies that protect the rich while failing to address the needs of the underprivileged. Another criticism is that these appointees have been mostly chosen from the nation's southeast region (Gyeongsang Province), which is reputably known as a GNP stronghold. Lee has also had to face corruption charges leveled at his administration. Three appointees have already resigned amid suspicions of corruption. And Lee’s top intelligence chief and anticorruption aide face accusations that they received bribes from The Samsung Group. Both Samsung and Lee denied the charges.

Former president, Kim Young-sam thinks Lee has done poorly in terms of appointing officials according to a Wikileaks document.

Certain important political individuals under Lee's administration allegedly obtained housing benefits through sponsored reduced contracts (Korean:다운계약서) by underreporting certain real estate taxes.

Many of the executives in private and public financial institutions (KB Financial Group, Hana Financial Group, Woori Financial Group, Shinhan Financial Group) have direct connections with Lee Myung-bak.

There has been negative responses in politics that Lee Myung-bak is favoring nepotism for his older brother, Lee Sang-deuk. He was a center of criticism from a bribery incident of his personal aide. An older cousin of Lee Myung-bak was under an investigation by the Supreme Prosecutors for extorting fundings for the Four Major Rivers Project. One relative of the First Lady Kim Yoon-ok was involved with a lobbyist affiliated with the Jeil Savings Bank. Another relative of the First Lady Kim Yoon-ok, Kim Ok-hui (김옥희), was involved in extorting money in 2008.

Being Involved in Illegal Business Deals

Dogok-Dong, Seoul Land Issues

Lee and his relatives managed pieces of land in southern Seoul, which was brought up in court in in early 2008.

BBK Incident

Lee Myung Bak was alleged to have been involved in a illegal company named BBK which has brought controversy to South Korea during the election season. BBK co-founder Kim Kyung-joon was investigated for large-scale embezzlement and stock price-fixing schemes. Kim Kyung-joon had initially stated that Lee was not involved with the company, and Lee himself denied being associated with BBK. Kim Kyung-joon and his wife attempted to implicate Lee Myung-Bak in criminal involvement which was not supported by evidence. Eventually, Kim Kyung-joon admitted publicly sole responsibility and making false and misleading statements in an attempt to implicate Lee. Lee was declared innocent of all charges by the Supreme Court of Korea. According to Wikileaks, Yoo Chong-ha (유종하), the former co-chairman of Lee Myung-bak's presidential election campaign, requested to then American ambassador to South Korea, Alexander Vershbow, to delay the extraction of the main individual of the BBK embezzlement scandal, Christopher Kim (Kim Kyung-joon), to Korea on the request to prevent spreading controversies related to Lee Myung-bak's involvement in the BBK embezzlement scandal during the election season.

Naegok-dong Post-Presidency Residence Issues

Lee's acquisition of a house in Seocho-gu's Naegok-dong under his son's name had caused a problem. One of the candidate lands that he sought was a Green Belt area, which could cause any contradiction about his "eco-friendly" governance. This has spurred many controversies. For instance, a female lobbyist-like civilian with the family name of Yoo was involved in this Naegok-dong deal with Lee Myung-bak's family members; now currently moved to the USA to avoid a possible arrest.

Lee has purchased this land under his son's name, which could potentially violate South Korean real estate laws. The Prosecutors have formally proposed to investigate President Lee's son who was also involved in the contract.

Legal professor, Lee Sang-don, voiced his opinion that President Lee's Naegok-dong property crisis could justify his impeachment.

Tax Evasion

The spokesperson of the Democratic Party, Lee Yong-seop (이용섭), said that the presidential family's current residence was evading tax by declaring parts of the buildings as commercial purposes.

Inappropriate Remarks

• On July 12, 2011, Lee's remarks on the Ganghwa Island Shooting spurred an controversy due to his remark interpreted as inculpating against the marine soldiers for failing to adjust to a military lifestyle.

See also

• Lee Myung-bak government
• Naneun Ggomsuda, a popular South Korean podcast that often lampoons President Lee Myung-bak

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