Lee Myung-bak: One More President to Face the Past

Former president Lee Myung-bak has enjoyed a comfortable retirement until now, thanks to having a fellow conservative succeed him. But now that Park Geun-hye has been replaced by Moon Jae-in, from the center-left Minjoo Party, Lee faces growing scrutiny over his term, from 2008 to 2013. A reform committee within the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the country’s main spy agency, has revealed that while Lee was in power, the NIS compiled a blacklist of cultural figures suspected of harboring