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The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton bei

The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over PizzaGate and it starts to get close. Besides the actual corruption mentioned in the article, there are credible reports swirling of a "8 Goddesses" cabal and various occult practices. http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-irrational-downfall-of-park-geun-hye.html http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-irrational-downfa... http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915/swirling-scandal-involving-shamanistic-cult-threatens-s-korean-president http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915/... http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/767405.html http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/76... https://medium.com/@thepenningtonlens/the-south-korean-puppet-president-77354276c186#.1lp10dmg9 https://medium.com/@thepenningtonlens/the-south-korean-puppe...

hooo 10y ago
Huh? PizzaGate was made up though.
- h4nkoslo 10y ago
  And Hillary Clinton wasn't elected. As I said, imagine.
  - hooo 10y ago
    And she was the daughter of the old dictator. Poor analogy.
kijin 10y ago
Imagine that Americans elected Tom Cruise to the White House and it turns out that the Church of Scientology was pulling his strings. That would be an apt analogy.
nether 10y ago
The 4chan summary is the best I've read: http://i.imgur.com/86Z3ea6l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/86Z3ea6l.jpg
- magic_beans 10y ago
  How much of that... is accurate?
  - yongjik 10y ago
    The "Eight heavenly ladies" part didn't pan out. So far, it seems there was only Choi Soonsil; I dunno, there might be seven stupid ladies who believed they were important just because they were Choi's friends. Yeah, but others are more or less factual. And that doesn't even begin to address the more odd bits, like Choi's friend Ko Young-Tae, who is a former Asian Game medalist who became a gigolo, made friends with Choi, and then reportedly had a fallout with Choi over a puppy owned by Choi's daughter...

hooo 10y ago

Huh? PizzaGate was made up though.

h4nkoslo 10y ago
And Hillary Clinton wasn't elected. As I said, imagine.
- hooo 10y ago
  And she was the daughter of the old dictator. Poor analogy.

kijin 10y ago

Imagine that Americans elected Tom Cruise to the White House and it turns out that the Church of Scientology was pulling his strings. That would be an apt analogy.

nether 10y ago

The 4chan summary is the best I've read: http://i.imgur.com/86Z3ea6l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/86Z3ea6l.jpg

magic_beans 10y ago
How much of that... is accurate?
- yongjik 10y ago
  The "Eight heavenly ladies" part didn't pan out. So far, it seems there was only Choi Soonsil; I dunno, there might be seven stupid ladies who believed they were important just because they were Choi's friends. Yeah, but others are more or less factual. And that doesn't even begin to address the more odd bits, like Choi's friend Ko Young-Tae, who is a former Asian Game medalist who became a gigolo, made friends with Choi, and then reportedly had a fallout with Choi over a puppy owned by Choi's daughter...