Will the Next President of Korea Move the Presidential Office Out of Yongsan?
I was never a big fan of moving the Presidential office to Yongsan and it appears who ever the new Korean President ends up being, it will move yet again:
Following the removal of President Yoon Suk Yeol from office, many are wondering if the next administration might relocate the presidential office, currently located in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, back to the previous location of Cheong Wa Dae, also known as the Blue House, or to a new site.
“Regardless of which party takes power, I think the majority of the public is unlikely to agree with the presidential office remaining in Yongsan in the long term,” said Rep. Kim Min-seok, a senior leader of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea, appearing on a radio program Tuesday.
He added that the ousted Yoon had not allowed sufficient public discussion when he moved the top office out of Cheong Wa Dae to Yongsan.
You can read more at the link, but I believe they should just move it back to Cheongwadae. It is a beautiful complex in the heart of Seoul, but would need to have a major security scan done since it has been open to the public for so long. When it opened to the public I made sure to go and visit Cheongwadae because I figured the Presidential office would eventually move back there. It was pretty cool to be able to mostly freely walk around an area that had for the longest time been closed to the public. I will need to post pictures of the visit when I get a chance.
Hahaha! That is toxic ground.
The Moon administration left more bugs than a spider picnic.
Yoon outsmarted them but didn’t play it well with the WTF public that doesn’t grasp there are wars going on that nobody sees.
The question now is who really controls that information stream… no trust from any side.
Better to turn it into a museum.
@Chickenhead, the threat of surveillance devices is why Cheongwadae would have to be completely debugged with a comprehensive security sweep. I think Yoon could have had done this, but instead wanted to differentiate himself from past Presidents by moving out of Cheongwadae. It all seemed pretty unnecessary to me.
You both idiots are not even close. Yoon moved out of the Blue House, due to superstition. This tells me how little you know what’s going on in Korea. Yoon and his wife were huge followers of a shady shaman priest who told both of them Blue House was giving off evil vibes, and told the couple to move out immediately. Yoon spent more than a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money for this move. And that’s where he was holed up for weeks after the arrest warrants were issued. This guy needs to hang in the gallows.
Surveillance devices are far, far, far easier to hide than detect.
– smaller than a fingernail
– powered by background RF
– store compressed information and transmit briefly on demand
– transmit at such low power they are hard to see above background noise
– mimic all the other communication devices in the area
– so cheap there can be many, many, many in one room
– unlimited backups designed to activate over time which requires constant bug sweeping
This list goes on.
If Yoon didn’t suspect it before, he knew what was up after his team lucked into detection and knew they couldn’t get them all.
Further, processing this massive amount of data is now very simple by feeding it into your LLM and asking, “What is the plan on trade policy?” or “Did they discuss the fraudulent election?”
We live in a new world where, if you have some valuable information, you have no privacy.
…and everything you encrypt, thinking it will maintain your privacy, is just one NSA storage datacenter and a quantum computer away from it turning into plaintext… which is the official plan of the NSA’s all-data collection policy.