The new president of South Korea, Yoon Seok-yue, is a "hard-core prosecutor" and the "nemesis of the South Korean president."

Yin Xiyue was born in Seoul, South Korea on December 18, 1960. Both of his parents are university professors. Yin Xiyue was admitted to Seoul National University, a well-known university in South Korea, in 1979, and obtained his undergraduate and master's degrees in law from the school in 1983 and 1988 respectively.

In 2013, Yin Xiyue was sent to work on the special investigation team of the "National Intelligence Agency's fabrication of public opinion" case. It is said that Won Se-hun, then director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, was searched by prosecutors for suspected interference in the election. However, Yin Xiyue was frequently blocked during the investigation, and he also publicly expressed dissatisfaction with this at a congressional hearing. Over the next three years, Yoon Seok-yue was demoted to the district prosecutor's offices in Daegu and Daejeon.

In 2016, Yoon Seok-yue led a special investigation into the corruption scandal involving former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, and helped with the trial and conviction of Park Geun-hye's "Crony Interference Case" and bribery cases. She also brought Park Geun-hye's crony Choi Soon-sil and Samsung Electronics to trial. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong and others were also arrested.

After rising to prominence through this case, Yoon Seok-yue became the director of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office in 2017. During his tenure, he led the investigation of former President Lee Myung-bak's bribery case and eventually sent him to prison.

In addition to two important investigations involving the former president of South Korea, Yoon Seok-yue, known as the "hard-nosed prosecutor", also prosecuted more than 100 other former officials and corporate executives during his tenure, and led the investigation Fraud by large conglomerates.

Since then, Yin Xiyue has become famous as a "representative of fairness and justice", and in 2019, he was unusually nominated by the current President Moon Jae-in as the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office. It is reported that the Supreme Prosecutor's Office is the highest prosecutorial agency in South Korea, and Yoon Seok-yue is the first prosecutor general who has not led the High Prosecutor's Office (second only to the Supreme Prosecutor's Office).

However, in March 2021, Yin Xiyue resigned as the Prosecutor General in protest against the Moon Jae-in government's judicial reforms that weakened the power of prosecutors. Subsequently, Yin Xiyue, who has more than 20 years of experience in the prosecutorial system, entered politics and announced his participation in the presidential election in June of the same year.

A month later, Yin Xiyue joined the National Power Party, the largest opposition party, and became the presidential candidate of the National Power Party in November. Korean media reported that when Yin Xiyue was nominated as a presidential candidate, he vowed to "end divided and angry Korean politics."

Yin Xiyue is considered a "political novice"

Yin Xiyue won a high support rate in the presidential election by virtue of his image as a "just prosecutor". Despite having a career as a prosecutor for more than 20 years, Yin Xiyue is generally considered a "political novice."

After the dust settled on this election, some experts in South Korea expressed their concerns. Gi-Wook Shin, a professor of sociology at Stanford University, said Yun Xiyue "is known as a fighter against the abuse of power, but is not a politician who values ??negotiation and compromise."

The professor added that Yin Xiyue, who lacks political leadership experience, has still become the "idol" of South Korean conservatives, which is not a good sign for South Korea. Minseon Ku, a political scientist at Ohio State University, also said that Yin Xiyue's "lack of political skills will spread to the field of foreign policy."

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