Rotten Mango - Korean President LOCKS DOWN Country Because “Wife Doesn’t Want To Go To Prison”
Episode Date: April 24, 2025Where is the first place she goes after being released from prison? The investigators and reports want to know…They start following her - into the mountains? The first place she visits has an unset...tling feeling. It’s in the middle of the mountains and there is a giant stone monument at the entrance that reads - “final resting place for souls.” What is that pink building?It’s a square baby pink shade colored building with NO doors. Just two tiny prison style windows. That’s it.Outside the building there are all sorts of “offerings” for the spirits… Whoever built this “temple” built it to feed off the energy of dead spirits. Whoever did this - is using dark magic to their benefit. When reporters look into it - they realize the pink home allegedly belongs to the President of South Korea and the First Lady of the nation. The ones accused of using shaman magic to win the election, change the trajectory of the nation, and ultimately lock down the country to take control. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
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It looks like a hot air balloon, but it's so much smaller.
And it doesn't come in those fun rainbow colors.
It's just a giant white balloon with a big black bag attached at the bottom, just drifting
into the air.
People are standing outside, they're covering their eyes from the sun, but also they're
trying to get a good look at this thing.
What is this thing?
It's so anticlimactic.
It's slow.
The balloon is slow, but it's coming down.
And it's also so random.
Like, what is this giant balloon?
And it's not just one.
Over the span of five months, thousands of balloons,
5,500 giant balloons just keep mysteriously floating in the air in different parts of the country of South Korea
How big are they?
There I would say it could probably fit two three people in a balloon.
Oh, it's big.
Yeah, in the beginning there was panic
I mean some regions had to shut down the airspace they delayed all flights some regions the mysterious balloons
They start triggering these air raid alerts, but later on, it just becomes the way of life. every citizen gets an amber alert. balloon
flying in your region, beware! some of them land peacefully on the street, making people gather
around. another one smashes into greenhouses. others start breaking down mid-journey and they
just start spewing stuff onto the street. a few land near police buildings. Two do end up causing a big stir because they land on the
grounds of the South Korean presidential office, which means they got to be
investigated thoroughly. The balloon itself is just a balloon. It's what's
attached to it that's weird. There's no weapons. There's no like biological
warfare. That's what people thought. It's just a ton of waste paper.
Think about if you were to get all of your home trash bags and then attach it to a hot
air balloon and send it on its merry way.
There's cigarette butts, used toilet paper, cut up fabric, and there's also feces.
Animal feces, human feces, feces with life parasites like round worms.
I mean I guess it's maybe if we're dramatic could be considered
biological warfare. It's poop balloons. That's what they're called. Sent to South Korea by North
Korea. This is in 2024. Last year for five months when we were in Korea we were getting alerts about
the poop balloons that were being sent down near us. North Korea is sending a message. Some of them have pamphlets inside with derogatory messages for the South Korean
president and the first lady and naturally this becomes a huge diplomatic
issue with Kim Jong-un's own sister publicly responding and she states
rather sarcastically, I cannot understand why they're making a fuss as
if they're being hit by a shower of bullets. It's a genuine gift of sincerity.
It's what they like to call an act of freedom of expression.
That is wild.
To be fair, they are not bullets. They are balloons. It's less lethal.
But North Korea, this is technically a reactionary measure,
since South Korean activists have been sending balloons filled with anti-regime pamphlets,
thousands of USB drives containing K-pop songs and k-
dramas, they called it the balloon wars and this is just one of the many shitty
things unfolding in South Korea in 2024 because around that same time equally if
not maybe more concerning is the woman that was just released from prison. May 14th, 2024, an older woman is released from prison.
I mean, maybe she knows, maybe she doesn't know, that journalists and investigators are all watching her.
They're following her when she gets out of prison.
If you don't know this woman, you would think she's a high-profile serial killer that just got released.
Why are we all following a senior citizen that just got released from prison?
Aren't there crazier criminals we should be stalking?
The first thing she does after being released from jail
is go deep into the mountains of South Korea.
And it's not just a random mountain spot.
It's a very specific place
with a very specific goal and energy.
She's gotta walk through this concrete tunnel,
then walk through the concrete tunnel then walk
through the path leading to this massive stone pillar probably three times my
height and it's got writing on it. It looks like a giant tombstone. It says
final resting place for souls. It's her family's ancestral burial ground. She
wants to go visit her ancestors? That's the first thing she does after being released from prison?
Reporters go back a few days later just to see, are we missing something?
Like why is this the first place she comes?
It's weird.
I mean obviously they can't walk around and browse while they're following her that
day, so they come back and the first thing they see is this tent-like structure on the
left.
It's like a sun protection tent, but there's nothing under it except a single chair.
and then hanging from the sides of the tent,
you have these paper lanterns.
all of them have this yellow slip of paper,
like a banner attached to the bottom,
and there's names on there.
typically in buddhist tradition and practice,
you can buy these lanterns,
you can have them put your name or whatever you want written hanging from there.
It brings good fortune and happiness.
And there's two very notable names there.
But the thing that starts freaking out the reporters is, you walk a few more steps, and
clearly the whole pathway, this whole place is meant to lead up to this building.
It just leads to a pink square building.
Like baby pink. Barbie pink.
It's like two squares smashed together. The architecture is rudimentary. You cannot create
a more simple looking building. It looks maybe two stories tall, but then you look at the building
and you go, something's weird about this building. There's no door. Why is there no door to the building?
It did take me a second to realize that there's no doors.
I think my mind just naturally assumed there would be.
Which is strange. I mean, what happens if there's a fire?
How do you even get in? What's the point of this building?
There are two windows at the front side of the building.
They're very small. Kind of like jailhouse windows, but without the bars.
They are positioned directly at the center of the building on top of each
other. It's a very strange, there's no other window on any other part of the
house. On the sides, on the back, nothing. No door, just two tiny windows. Yeah and
it's this Barbie pink color. It does indeed get stranger as you walk closer.
There are these tombstone looking things surrounding the entire baby pink color. it does indeed get stranger as you walk closer. there are these
tombstone looking things surrounding the entire baby pink house. one of them there
has this giant plum tree carved onto the stone and next to that are seven bottles
of soju like vodka opened. the soju is still in there. this is not litter. it
looks like an offering of sorts. the reporters they start looking and the plum blossom tree, a lot of them note
sometimes this could be used for shamanistic practices. it means blessings
but this is clearly not a regular shamanistic building. it feels like
there's a lot of dark energy here. it feels like someone practicing dark
shamanism which in that case the plum blossom is associated with lethal power and as conduits for rituals
involving malevolent spirits. back in the day people would use plum trees load up
all their misfortune so like if you have bad luck you get a plum tree you put all
your bad luck in there you do a ritual where you take all of your misfortune put
it into the plum tree and then bury it with dead people in the afterlife, these deceased people will have your bad luck.
You're passing it on. And they can't even say no because they're deceased in this world.
There's various stone pillars around the house. Then surrounding those carvings,
you have these steel flag poles without flags. And if you look closely closely there's a lot of dragon emblems
dragons are usually closely associated with kings typically only the royal
family and associated high officials were allowed to use dragon motifs in
their clothing that's it and then lastly you just see this puffer jacket just
hanging outside nobody's wearing it it not we're hanging like outside of this pink house
outside of the poles I'm like a stand like one of those basket chairs, but it doesn't look like oh I was wearing my puffer jacket
But it got hot so I threw it on the chair. It looks like intentional
Really in shamanism. It's usually a warning to outsiders. This is our home. Do not enter
Many shamanistic experts had back and forth
conversation. what does the pink mean? are you sure the plum blossom tree is the dark shamanism?
what does this building symbolize? what does this mean? there's so much back and forth but one thing
that people noticed is that this pink color looks so oddly similar to another case that we covered
the sampoong mall collapse. it's a department store in
South Korea that collapsed in the middle of the day with close to 1,500 shoppers
and staff all getting trapped. ultimately 502 people died in the collapse. the
mall's outside exterior was painted the exact same baby pink color. you are
freaking kidding me. and now there's this temple in the middle of nowhere and what were the names outside? Yoon Seok-Gyeol and Kim Geun-Hee. why are
the names of the South Korean president and the first lady outside this temple?
and is it just a coincidence that they live in the apartment building built on
top of this hanpoong department store collapse?
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Disclaimer, this case has super brief mentions of animal abuse.
There is discussion surrounding shamanism, and I just want to be clear, I would 100%
support freedom of religion, spirituality, beliefs, and any support, comments,
or criticisms are not ours, and also I do think even with more widely accepted mainstream
religions, there's always limits to it.
I think freedom of religion and spirituality is great until you're harming other people.
This is also not an analysis or a think piece regarding Korean or even US
politics. we're just merely covering the current events that have shaken South
Korea recently and reporting on what's been happening because everybody has
been requesting it. oh and another thing, I do think that the title of president
is one that should be earned through trust by the people. many times in this
episode I'm gonna be referring to people by their highest political titles not
because I think they're necessarily deserving of that respect
But just to highlight how corrupt some of these people are
Because how can you be in the highest office and commit these types of crimes?
So with that being said, let's get started. Why would someone suddenly start using
75 times more water in their house. Are you taking 75 times more showers?
This is what South Korean citizens
are debating all week long.
According to Seoul City's Seoul Water 2023 data,
the average weekly water usage for a two-person household
is about three tons of water,
so like 804 gallons of water.
But for the past seven days,
a full week
after impeached President Yun and First Lady Kim
are dismissed from the presidential residence
in South Korea, they use over 75 times
the average consumption of water.
75 times.
In their blue house?
In their, well, they don't live in the blue house.
They live in a different residential palace.
Oh, so you're saying that after they were impeached yes their water like usage became 75
times more than the average two-person household so now there's debates because this information
is released to the citizens is it very clear that they have 75 times their water usage or maybe
they're just water wasters from the day that they took office it their water usage or maybe they're just water
wasters from the day that they took office. it's unclear but the fact that
these reports were released have citizens in a freaking chokehold. I mean
instead of 804 gallons they use 60,193 gallons of water in a week. what the hell
do you need that much water for? You would quite literally need to have 15 faucets running at once for
over 24 hours to use that amount of water.
Netizens start speculating what the hell were they using it for and the main speculation is
drugs. Why else do you need that much water? Think about it.
Yeah, unless you're watering down and flushing drugs down the drain.
Videos start going viral with borderline conspiracy theories that tie the president and his wife to one of the biggest drug smuggling operations in South Korea,
to which other netizens are arguing, no, I mean, yeah, he was impeached.
However, do you think that really only they live there?
I'm sure security guards, staff, probably more than 100 people live in that
house. of course the amount of water is going to be used. others disagree, stating, no, they wouldn't
release this information if it didn't mean something. another comment, to me, i think it's
either going to be drugs or animal sacrifices, which is kind of random, but they they talk about
bloodletting. it's when you have to make an animal bleed out, and that's how they die.
and that's typically reserved for really dark, frowned upon shamanistic practices.
so, does this come out of nowhere?
why do so many citizens just assume the president and the first lady are either cartel-level drug dealers
or doing animal sacrifices in the presidential residence? do you know how to predict the president? no. okay so forget about the
policies. sometimes it's rather simple. they say it's height. since the 1900s, the
taller of the two candidates has almost frequently won presidential elections to
the point where researchers think that we must have some sort of unconscious
bias, the taller one must be better in our eyes. the US has not elected a elections to the point where researchers think that we must have some sort of unconscious bias.
the taller one must be better in our eyes.
the US has not elected a president that was below the average national height for the past
120 years. you're just telling me there's not a good short politician? maybe, maybe not.
but what if it's more niche than that? we can't be that easy to control. That's crazy.
Some say it's body language and speech cadence. Former President Barack Obama,
for one, when he's talking, he probably has the best usage of hand gestures. He
will literally point using his thumb and index finger to point out the point that
he's making. He's quite literally making a point. When he talks about time spans
or spectrums, he will do wave-like hand motions. it signals to the
audience subconsciously that his nonverbal communication and his verbal
communication is perfectly in sync, which makes him be perceived as more
trustworthy. it's that. it's height. sometimes I study the pitch of the voice
with voters generally preferring lower pitchedpitched voices, deeper voices.
People have even spent their whole careers studying rhythms of politicians' speeches and cadence.
There are people that will go word for word, and they also study word usage.
Each president's presidential feel is going to be a unique blend of a ton of different elements.
I mean, should this be why they're voted in no
But it just seems like something people study because why is it happening?
Like the fact that apparently voters like the words heart hand
journey
dream rather than more conceptual words like commitment help
endeavor
idea where it's like commitment, help, endeavor, idea.
Now, side note, I do wanna mention charisma
does not mean someone is likable or charming.
It just means that they have a personal ability
to arouse loyalty or enthusiasm out of others.
It doesn't mean they're a good person
or that they're so likable.
People can be very divisive and charismatic,
like cult leaders.
And speeches are where people can easily compare
these candidates.
With JFK being considered one of the greatest orators
of all time, he's probably known as the quintessential
charismatic president.
Ronald Reagan, his speeches are heavily studied.
His cadence is known as campfire storytelling.
The way he talks, it sounds like he's at a campfire.
Bill Clinton, his speeches are always more conversational.
Studies show that the audience always felt
like he was talking one-on-one with them
during a presidential race.
He's the type that looks very at ease talking to leaders,
but also just random retail workers at the diner.
They say his cadence style is Southern porch talk. It's likely that he practiced this, there are speculations, when he says America.
sometimes it comes off more like Merica versus America to sound more folksy. and
of course Barack Obama, analysts state that he was never as comfortable as like
Bill Clinton with crowd work. That's what they call it.
So they say after the speeches, when you see Obama working the crowd,
he's nowhere near as charismatic as Clinton.
But his speeches usually are better perceived.
His body language during it, his voice, he never loses his cool composure
that comes off very passionate, compassionate, but also
in control. they say his cadence almost has this jazz-like quality to it. so a
lot of people speculate the reason why Americans hate politics so much right
now amongst obviously every other major reason why we hate it, but it might be
that they're just really no good candidates with great charisma is what
some studies are saying
we've kind of walked away from that
presidential speech writers, they will even work on making sure someone comes off charismatic
they will write pauses into each president's speech
usually the rule being do not pause longer than three seconds or else you risk losing the audience
and some presidents, they like to mix up the rhythm.
So there's like three different types of rhythms you could go with.
So for example, the words,
it's time to heal.
Pause.
To build.
But there's also, it's time to heal.
Pause.
It's time to build.
Then there's, it's time to heal.
To build.
To conquer. It's like, there's very different structures to heal, to build, to conquer.
It's like there's very different structures to say the same thing.
Others prefer repeating opening sentences.
We will face challenges.
We will overcome them.
Sometimes it's a triple structure.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people.
It's all about the rhythm.
They say the best speeches for presidents are actually only 50% substance,
25% storytelling, and 25% rhetorical flourishes.
rhythm. rhythm. cadence driven, rhythm driven, viral sound bites.
that's what they're looking for.
so may 10th, 2022, the 20th presidential inauguration ceremony takes place in south korea,
where one of the most controversial candidates is about to take office
some notable attendees are the former first lady, the wife of the 17th president Lee
unfortunately her husband, former president, could not make it as he is in prison for corruption
and the prosecutor that put him in prison is the new president
another notable attendee, Park Geun-hee, the 18th
president of South Korea, she was able to make it even though she was impeached
for corruption and the prosecutor that investigated her is also now the
president. Then the former president and his wife Moon Jae-in, this is the last
president, thankfully they were both able to make it however they are both being
currently investigated. So please stand for the newly elected president and the new first lady of south korea.
president yoon comes in dressed like any other person in the room honestly,
but the first lady comes in dressed all in white with a white matching face mask.
her stature, she's very petite, way she dresses the way she does her hair
It's very reminiscent of like a Korean Jackie Kennedy
You would almost think that this is her inauguration the way she walks in. Why is she wearing a mask?
This is around well, it's 2022
Yeah, now the president takes the stage and his very first speech as the new president of South Korea
He leans into the microphone based on the values of freedom human rights fairness
and solidarity I will steadfast create a country where the people are the true
masters thank you the crowd starts going crazy and President Yoon's wife
First Lady Kim I mean I know this is like societal norm I don't know why I the crowd starts going crazy and president yoon's wife, first lady kim?
i mean, i know this is like societal norm
i don't know why i hate it, listen
but society just loves a supportive, brainless first lady
they just wanna see her clapping and smiling
like, i love my husband! i love this great country!
but something about her...
she's just stoic
she's not cheery, she's not that
oh my gosh I love making
cookies for Christmas. she just looks as if she's deep in thought. December 2024
it's like the biggest concert in the world. just a sea of people out in the
cold in their puffer jackets. this is December in Korea. It's like snowing. There's filling the entire street
Multiple blocks are shut down to the point where you think is every major kpop idol performing at this concert
It doesn't make sense. There's old people. There's young people there. There's holding up lightsticks
There's this massive stage with a screen and they're blasting kpop. You talking about Christmas Eve yeah December 24th no December 2024 oh before Christmas yeah
but they are singing Christmas songs too and you have this random old guy coming
out to play his guitar and sing songs and then you find out that this random
old guy is a senator and you're like what's happening what's going going on right now? and people have their lightsticks and they're all
buying coffee for each other? this is not a k-pop concert
this is a protest in south korea what do you mean? this is how Koreans
protest by playing k-pop songs? yes and it's like a sea of people
all protesting like the whole city was shut down
Okay, and then some music are playing like people speakers. They're just holding a speaker. No, there's a whole stage
There's a sound team. It's literally a concert. There's a giant screen
They're singing Feliz Navidad, but the new lyrics are Yoon Seok-yeol has to fuck off. Then it's a Merry Christmas
Kim Gun-hee has to get punished, then it's a Merry Christmas.
The right wing has to be disbanded.
Impeach him right now.
Impeachment is the answer, else the country will be ruined.
And then it's a Merry Christmas.
Okay.
And this all happens because previously, a few days prior, three helicopters,
they just land on this big lawn.
It's like near midnight.
Three helicopters side by side. It looks like an action movie.
The doors open. You got teams of guys in camouflage running out.
And this is all over the news.
There's tanks coming down the street.
There's more helicopters in the air, and they're shining that little spotlight down
as if they're looking for someone.
And this is happening at the National Assembly building.
There's a 70 year old man wearing a mask and a hat and it's cold.
His hands are freezing.
He called his wife before he came here and he said, look, anything can happen.
I don't know what's going to happen right now.
Love you.
Things are not looking very promising.
Who is this?
He's like a 70 year old man.
He's trying to get into this building. He looks to his right. There's another old guy. All these young
people are physically lifting him up and throwing him over the fence so that he
can get into the building. There's thousands of people surrounding this
place. I mean people are having some very interesting interactions. A high-profile
woman on mainstream news medias is being held at gunpoint
there's a rifle pointed square at her chest and she's pissed off she grabs the rifle and pushes
it off and she's like are you not ashamed of yourself? she's talking to the soldier who just
pointed a rifle at her the soldiers have one order go inside the national assembly and occupy the
building inside
National Assembly aides are trying to stop the soldiers blocking them with
furniture sofas they even resort to spraying them down with fire
extinguishers citizens are trying to help block the paths of the tanks and at
the end when the soldiers decide to leave the group of protesters that were
just screaming at them moments ago that were just like, I'm so ashamed of yourself. Good work tonight. Get home safe. Good work.
Keep your heads up, our sons. You're kidding me.
Yeah, the whole thing is so strange. Like, what are we doing here? What is happening?
Is this staged? It is because December 3rd, 2024, President Yun of South Korea delivers one of the most important presidential speeches in South Korean modern history.
At 11.27pm, Dear respected citizens, As President, I appeal to you with a heart full of sorrow.
I appeal to you with the feeling of spitting out blood.
The State Administration is paralyzed and the size of our citizens are deepening.
Now our National Assembly has become a den of criminals, paralyzing the nation's judicial
and administrative systems through legislative dictatorship and planning for the overthrowing
of our liberal democratic system.
The National Assembly, which should be the foundation of liberal democracy, has become
a den of criminals
and is attempting to destroy the system.
Now, South Korea is in a precarious situation, where it would not be surprising if we collapse.
In summary, the president of South Korea is accusing the opposition party.
So President Yun is very right-wing.
Even out of the right-wings, he of the right wings, he's ultra conservative.
Super conservative. He gets voted in. And the opposition party, I guess the Democrats, if you will,
they have control over the National Assembly. So they're not letting any of his bills pass.
But now he is accusing them of being North Korean spies, North Korean intelligence,
North Korean operatives that
are preventing him and they just want to destroy South Korea from the inside.
He says to protect the safety of the people, the following is hereby declared throughout
the Republic of Korea as of 11pm on December 3rd, 2024.
Martial law is declared.
All political activities, including the National Assembly, are prohibited. He's
saying no lawmakers can come together. Two, all acts that deny or attempt to overthrow
the system are prohibited. Fake news, public opinion manipulation, prohibited. Three, all
media and publications are subject to the control of the martial law command.
Basically censorship.
4. Strikes, work stoppages, rallies prohibited.
All medical personnel, doctors who are on strike or have left their medical job, must
return to their jobs within 48 hours.
Those who violate will be punished according to the martial law. He's saying anyone who doesn't follow this will be arrested, detained, searched without a warrant, interrogated, and God knows what.
He says, as president, I sincerely appeal to you.
I will dedicate my life to protecting the free republic of Korea.
Please believe in my heartfelt loyalty to you, the people.
Please trust in me.
Thank you.
And with that, all hell breaks loose.
I mean, technically, anybody could get a death sentence,
could disappear, all in the name, an excuse of protecting the country,
with one researcher stating,
I mean, no matter who you voted for, it doesn't matter your political affiliation.
Martial law in this day and age in South Korea is nonsense.
I mean you even have to wonder, will this President Yun's entire plan all along get voted in so that he can take complete control?
I mean President Yun is a pretty divisive president. He wins the election by just 0.8%. That's not even a full percentage.
He isn't even particularly popular, but the people who love him will die for him and I guess here we are
right he was known as a career prosecutor who is known to play by the
books I mean you ever meet those people you're like play a game of Monopoly with
them I mean you're just learning how to play you make a mistake and they're like
no the rules are the rules it's like too. That was the initial public perception that people had
until you find out that he failed the bar exam nine times.
And he's just not that bright, you know?
But a lot of people who are already very right leaning,
ultra conservative, they love the fact
that he was not a career politician.
This is his first political role
other than being a prosecutor. like this is his first
public office held. even though generally speaking upon it's kind of frowned upon in korea for former
prosecutors to run for higher office because prosecutors are supposed to be politically neutral
and so if you run you have to go with a party and then you know you're mixing in with a bunch of
other people that could try to bribe you later. A lot of people were not happy about this election,
but they kind of sued themselves with the idea of,
well, he's kind of a lame duck, isn't he?
I mean, the Democrats,
they've got the National Assembly majority,
so what is he gonna do?
He's not gonna be able to do anything.
He's just gonna sit there pretty, and that's it.
But he does some very ominous things. One of the biggest things
during his campaign trail, October 1st 2021, presidential candidate Yun goes viral.
On his left hand, first of all, is very pricey looking watch, yes, but also there
is a word written on his palm. So he's talking, he's doing a debate, and it's
almost like someone drew with a Sharpie one symbol. It's the Chinese symbol for king. What the hell would you write king
on your palm? You're not writing strength, courage, good luck, president, servant, for
the people. Is it like, it's also like traditional Korean? It's hanja, so it's
traditional Korean, yes. But um lot of like, I guess,
Western sources call it the Chinese symbol for king.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's Korean hanja.
So they use the hanja, and it's king.
Why the hell does someone write king
on their palm while running for president? A reporter that same year goes to meet with the future first lady, Kim, at her office.
There's this massive meeting table, it's very large, it's a conference table length,
and she ushers this reporter in,
seats him at the head seat, man of the house seat.
And to his right, there's two men.
To his left, there's two women.
And it's, this is probably the most fascinating conversation
that he's ever been involved in.
They are acting like he is God
who is walking down back on earth.
They're treating him like the king right now
we're treating who? this reporter and it's making him feel good about himself
meanwhile all he has ever done is write shit pieces against the future first lady and her husband
presidential candidate yoon meanwhile future first lady kim she's just laying on a daybed in the
office right next to it right next to him she's just laying on a day bed in the office right next to it, right next to him.
She's just laying there on her side like a beautiful French lady. That type of energy.
Wait, hold on.
Kim is the first lady, right? But this is prior to them winning the election.
And she invited a reporter that hates her and then like she's laying next to him
Uh-huh, and this is the very first meeting and her whole team is treating him like he's the world's best
reporter that has ever existed
And he's so confused but also it's kind of working. He feels good
I mean you would think that these two have been best friends since high school and they're just seeing each other again
That's the level of casualness in which first lady Kim is directing herself. This is their first meeting
And she's laying on her side. She's giggling getting up pouring him more alcohol
He says after drinking my face got a bit red and I put my hand on the table and she suddenly yanks it towards her body
So she's pulling his hand naturally his body is going towards her and she announces to it towards her body. So she's pulling his hand. Naturally, his body is going towards her.
And she announces to the staff,
Hey guys, I'm gonna read his palm. See if I'm right or not.
She's studying the lines on his palm.
This oppa is gonna do really well in the future.
He's a married man, but he has a woman on the side.
Reporter Lee is like yanking his hand out because what do you mean?
Where would I even have a woman on this?
I don't even have time to meet women
He says behind me I could hear the other two female employees
chuckling giggling and then they start reading out his palm and
First lady Kim states he's really good at night activities and
All the girls start giggling and tapping him on the shoulder
night activities as in intimate relations
Report Elise as he feels so uncomfortable. He just wants to leave
He finally comes up with an excuse Kim follows him out shoves an envelope in his pocket for the taxi ride home
When he opens it up in the taxi, it's
21
50 dollar bills it's the 50,001 bill in korea it's the highest bill so how much is that
i guess with if you do the conversion to usd it's like 721 dollars that is wait i mean what is he
taxing to america well why does he need 724 dollars even if she was paying him for his time he was only there for 30 minutes
he thought well maybe this is nothing to her maybe she's that rich i'm just so confused
also 21 bills feels very specific yeah october 29th 2022 another case that we covered. At a Halloween
celebration in Itaewon Seoul, 159 people died in a crowd crush incident in a
small alleyway. We did an episode on it, probably one of the worst tragedies in
modern modern South Korean history, but the new conspiracies have popped up.
Honestly this is very controversial and incredibly traumatizing but a lot of
netizens feel like there might be some truth to it because of how crazy
everybody's been acting with the sentiment and conspiracy being if
President Yoon didn't wish for a tragedy like this to happen maybe he's using it
after the fact to gain energy and strength through dark shamanistic practices.
October 28th, the day before the Itaewon crush incident, a man named Chun Gong, a shaman,
goes online to make a video.
Do our young people have anything to do now?
No.
What do they do when they have nothing to do?
Youth is a time when energy is burning. When energy is burning and there's nothing to do, if you're not given anything to do now? No. What do they do when they have nothing to do? Youth is a time when energy is burning. When energy is burning and there's nothing to
do, if you're not given anything to do, what happens?
They go around doing all sorts of things. So they go dancing.
And since young people gather there, they go there.
If young people are drinking there, I drink too.
If they do drugs, I do them too. An enormous amount of drugs are coming into
Korea now. So I'm designing all that.
And now what the government needs to do is crack down on all the incoming drug dealers
before this gets bigger, before the organization gets bigger.
And he goes on and on.
But like any war, the war on drugs usually needs a catalyst for the government to crack
down.
This is one day before the Itaewon tragedy. The next day after the Itaewon incident,
Chun-Gong tells his followers that, quote,
the young people who were sacrificed in the Itaewon tragedy
gave our country an opportunity.
That is crazy to say.
Those good opportunities will keep coming.
Even if our children sacrifice themselves,
they need to sacrifice
themselves with this kind of mass numbers for the world to feel it. This is
being arranged now. We must make our children's sacrifices worthwhile. We need
to use this opportunity well and do something that shines in the world. It is
believed that this specific shaman believes that death and
the time of death and people dying could be an energy ritual. It's not just that
people are dead because what could you possibly get out of that? He is saying
that the energy, the mass grief that everybody feels. It's something that you can manipulate and turn into fortune for one party or another. And what does this
random shaman have to do with President Yoon? It is alleged that this is the
First Lady Kim and President Yoon's shaman of choice. Which again, insane, right?
But people started noticing strange things, such as the fact that the
president and the government forbid the victims' families from hanging portraits of the victims at the National Memorial.
Their names were forbidden to show up anywhere at the official memorial.
A lot of people hated the official memorial for how cold it felt.
However, for multiple days straight, President Yoon, the president of South Korea, came every single day to leave chrysanthemums.
To which some people were thinking what the
hell is wrong with this guy is he like feasting off this energy or something he
won't let the families have a proper memorial but he comes every day for what
yeah what's his reason for not allowing photos and he said it was too quick to
organize with every victims family if they consented to photos, if they consented to names
But most of the families were like, no, we want that
And then nine days after the Itaewon incident, President Yoon moves into the presidential residence
Away from the Blue House. He does not move into the Blue House, which is like the White House of South Korea
He moves into the Defense Ministry building
He went from Blue House to there? No, he goes from his personal apartment
that is built on top of Sampoong Mall collapse to this Defense Ministry building. He does not
want to move to the Blue House. Like unprompted. This was one of the first things that he does as
president. He said that he was going to spend 30 to 40 million dollars of taxpayer money to
live in the Defense Ministry compound. He claims that him not moving into the
Blue House is him rejecting the traditional presidential residence
because it's symbolic of imperial power. He said he wants to feel connected with
the people. Nobody believes that. They think it's shamanism. And it's very
interesting because people say, wait i feel like the defense ministry building has way darker history. that area
was japan's military headquarters during the colonial period. before that, a lot of
kings would bury their concubines in that region, so there's history in that area.
there's even rumors that there's a massive gravesite under the Ministry of National Defense office. why would he want to move there
over the plush beautiful blue house? the palace. a lot of people say President
Yun and First Lady Kim believe the entire blue palace has bad feng shui. now
to be fair, feng shui can be at times perspective. some people say the location
of the blue house is pretty good. there's mountains up north, there's a river in the south
all finished off with this stone monument that claims
this is the most blessed place on earth.
but um,
i will say, nobody really believes it
because every single president that's been in there
i mean the best fate that you can get
after serving as president of south korea
is to be wealthy and normal.
not dead, not investigated for corruption
not impeached, and not in prison
those are usually the more popular options
geographically, there's a lot about the new presidential residence that the blue house doesn't have
like typical good feng shui
so they move seven days after the itaewon tragedy
with a $5,000 cat tower
that they bought using taxpayer money they bought this cat tower that cats climb on top tragedy with a $5,000 cat tower that they bought using taxpayer money
they bought this cat tower that cats climb on top of
it was $5,000
they buy this full new bathtub
high quality hennoki cypress starting at $17,000
I mean there's a lot of people who think
what is happening right now
like they're furnishing this new military home base
yes
but like how do they even know that the new presidential residence is luckier than the blue house?
There's a strong connection between the First Lady Kim and the number five.
It's said that her phone number has a lot of fives, her car license plate has a lot of fives.
It is believed that in shamanism, the number five symbolizes balance and harmony.
It's supposed to represent the five elements, the five directions, and the five colors. it's good to keep the natural and
spiritual forces in order because of the protection it provides and it's going to
bring good fortune. five gods, five elements. it's believed that she also
subscribes to the idea of the big flow of energy. like you know how there's wind
patterns? bad luck
negative energy cycles also flow in certain directions. positive good energy
flows also flows in certain directions. they have expressions like a virtuous
cycle or a vicious cycle. and to receive the highest level of luck, the first lady
and her alleged shaman allegedly map out Seoul. So they start with their
original home being the southern point because this is where they became president. Then they
draw a line. So this is Acro Vista apartment complex. How do we know these? A lot of shaman
experts came out and said these are the people that she's associating with, allegedly, and these
are like the types of things that they do. So they start with Acrovista, the original residents, their personal residents,
private residents. Then they draw a line straight to what they call the central line of the earth,
which lands at Itaewon Station. Directly north of that is the Blue Palace.
Directly north of that is the Blue Palace.
And then that's one straight line, up, down, right?
Then if they start at Itaewon, the middle point in the center, the central line,
then they go directly left to the west.
You run into the presidential office.
Then you go from Itaewon station directly, right?
It's the defense ministry building, the new presidential residence.
They believe the flow of energy is going to come positively towards them.
It brings out a cross.
So prior to the presidency years ago in South Korea,
in Gangnam, there was this massive pink building, the mall's hampung department store, that collapsed and killed 500 people.
If you've been to Korea, you've probably driven by that site.
It's quite literally smack dab in the middle of Gangnam.
Now instead of a memorial, there's three massive buildings.
Acro Vista Complex, high-end residential homes.
37 stories tall each.
When you drive past it, I mean
they're just sitting neatly on the street. the building structures
themselves look more like hotels than your typical Korean apartment building.
it's very expensive. in between each building you've got park-like green
areas and trees. there's a separate facility called Acro Vista Arcade where
you can just walk out of your apartment, go find banks, restaurants, markets, cafes, pharmacies, convenience stores. There's been
debates, so many debates. Is this building haunted or not? Some people say
it's the safest building in the entire country. What are the odds that two
buildings at the same place collapse? This building will probably be the last
building in the world to collapse. Other people say this is the worst building to be in because you don't know, I mean,
let's say if you believe in spirituality and your soul, you're going to build a home
on top of all of these souls whose lives were taken abruptly because of government corruption
because they didn't have the right regulations for this mall.
But some shamans believe this is the best energy you can have.
When souls are trapped in an area, they give off a lot of energy and if they are
to move to the afterlife, you can send things with them. You can send your
misfortune. You can send your pain away with them. But some citizens think that's
crazy. Maybe they just moved in there because it's a nice apartment complex.
I will say a lot of people felt that way.
Until some random things start overlapping.
President Yun announces his candidacy to run for president on June 29th, 2021.
On the exact anniversary of the Samphung department store collapse.
That is wild
and where he makes the announcement is called the citizen forest
where they were originally planning to have the Sampoong department store collapse memorial
that is crazy
and then you've got the pink temple that they built in the mountains allegedly
wait so that temple, what's going on? It's still there. Wait who's
the lady you're saying? That's Park Geun-hee's mom. First Lady Kim's mother is
released from prison and she goes there. And then on the little lanterns you've
got President Yoon's name, you've got Kim Geun-hee, First Lady Kim's name. So she
left, she released from prison like recently.
Yes.
And she goes straight for that?
Yeah.
And then do kind of some kind of-
Yes.
Rituals or-
Mm-hmm.
And that space is still there.
Nobody knows exactly what's going on.
It's just a pink block.
Yeah.
In the mountains.
Yeah.
I mean, some people think there's just no way
he doesn't know what day it is,
considering he lives in the apartment building
built on top of the collapse.
But others see it as,
well, maybe it's just an unfortunate coincidental overlap.
How do I know?
But other people say there have been
so many strange things, the King written on his hand,
even admittedly in one secretly recorded phone call
with a reporter.
First Lady Kim is heard saying,
You know, I can see better than most clairvoyants.
There's a rumor that's somewhat incorrect.
I don't go to shamans to have my fortune told.
I can read shamans better than they can.
I study the four pillars of destiny so that I know my own fate.
The four pillars of destiny is a bit different from shamanism.
It's kind of like reading your birth chart.
It's analyzing a person's fate, life path
based on their birth year, birth month,
birth date, and birth hour.
It's pretty common, it's like finding the cosmic energy
at the time that you were born,
and the idea that you cannot escape your destiny.
Nobody can, so you might as well lean into it.
Which, okay fine, but it does get weirder.
It is alleged that Kim Gun-hee kept jugo straw dolls,
which are kind of reminiscent of like western voodoo dolls,
and they would have their opponents names on there, allegedly,
and they would stick daggers into the straw dolls.
apparently first lady kim would hold these ritual ceremonies
where she would place a jugo straw doll representing someone that she hates,
put them in a giant bucket of ice,
and when the ice melts,
the doll is slowly getting submerged until they slowly drown in this now melted ice bucket of water
and then sink to the very bottom. and where did that- just just an allegation, just a rumor? yes,
sources of people who knew her prior to her running or her husband running for president.
of people who knew her prior to her running or her husband running for president.
It is believed that she partakes in rituals where you hold funerals for living people as a way of cursing them. And who knows? I mean, I guess if any of this is true, they could argue that it worked.
Because now they are president and they're moving into this new residence, not the blue house, that appears to be walking distance.
Seven minute walking distance, 0.4 miles away from a man named Chen Gong.
During President Yun's run for presidency, he's asked about whether or not he knows of Chen Gong personally, the shaman.
By the way, the shaman has some crazy hair. He's got waist-length hair that's all white.
He looks like a
Shifu from a Chinese drama. And then you just like imagine him texting on a
bus and then it's just the vision is not there anymore. But to which he says, the
president says, I met with him a few times with my wife, but Chen Gong has a
completely different statement. He states, the first lady has been listening to my lectures for four to five years now.
She's listened on YouTube. Like she studies my lecture.
She liked it so much that she just kept listening and learning from it.
He's a very interesting character. He, I mean,
So there is also like, there is such a history of Korean presidents.
That's why.
Seeking shamanism or these yes okay
so I think shamanism is pretty widely accepted in South Korea I think if you
go to a shaman nobody really bats an eye if you're doing some weird animal
sacrifices rituals yeah people want you arrested however if you're like hey
shaman come into this new apartment and like tinker tatter around and make it that I can make more money in here
people will do it people like it or shaman can you help my kid get into
college it's whatever I think it's like a it's like therapy you're easing your
soul you feel like you've put it up into the air now but with this people hate it
Korean citizens who might consult a shaman or two if they want they
absolutely hate the idea of politicians being associated with shamans
and the previous one that was very allegedly close to a shaman that might have been controlling a lot of the nation's decisions through the president
is Park Geun-hee, the president of this Hewar ferry disaster. She was impeached.
She was thrown in prison for corruption.
And it's heavily tied to shamanism, right?
Yeah.
Now, I will say Changgong does have a hard life.
He was an orphan for 33 years and then he went to the mountains in Uriusan.
I don't know how true any of this is,
but he states for the next 17 years,
he was just absorbing energy and cosmic law from the mountains
in his YouTube video he states fundamentally as we come from space to
this earth we are living with 30% of our original energy you know what what we
call our soul this soul is me the soul is us not the physical body the soul
resides within the physical body this soul contains how much of your original
energy it is 30% this is like meeting a word count then where is the
remaining 70% it resides in nature itself in space in our original homeland
I think we're all aliens I don't know that's our true homeland he says this
place is not our true home we have come to a distorted place." I hate that word. Why? Due to
impurity. Why do humans live and work hard? I mean I don't know either sir. I
thought you're supposed to tell us. In another oddly pessimistic video he says
death doesn't exist at all. There is no death even if there is a word to
describe it. Death doesn't exist at all. Grand nature operates everything as energy.
Do you die when you let go of your body after you've finished using it?
No, you don't.
Your flesh will return to grand nature as energy through microbial activity.
The soul exists forever and all the energy in the universe is eternal.
We transform as necessary to work in different environments.
He sounds like a co-leader. Yes. Also in another one. He says obesity stems from having complaints
Unsatisfied people become obese when you meet high quality people you will naturally eat high quality food
Thus you should put some effort into developing yourself in the right way
If your health issues are not resolved in the hospital,
that implies that you have character flaws. Your energy is circulating. If your energy is
circulating well, your appearance improves. Higher quality people then become attracted to you, and
as more people come to you, you receive their high quality energy and then develop even more high
quality energy. And likewise, when people stay away from you you feel lonely
your appearance declines you lack energy you get obese then people around you leave so you shrink
you know just like the old ladies with their rounded shoulders who are so small even their acquaintances
start getting shorter and rounder shoulders and then you got everyone becoming like this
everyone becoming like this. but he also says you can't make good friends by wanting to befriend someone. if you do you will lose the upper hand in the
relationship. you know it's the law of accidents. if you don't reflect on
yourself and learn a lesson from the small accident and continue to just live
like before then you'll have a bigger one. why? pain never comes if you live
correctly. it only comes when you live wrongly. Accidents and illnesses operate
alike. Hospitals and prisons restrain people. You are confined. You are
confined and forced to reflect on yourself. It is there to guide you to
think deeply without moving around. I mean I think, is he like famous?
Or like somewhat famous?
Somewhat famous, but not much.
So why are people connecting it to the president?
Because they've been seen around together, it appears.
They're very well connected and he said some pretty inflammatory things.
You know, the Itaewon tragedy being the sacrifice for the greater good of the country being won
Additionally, he believes that North and South Korea will unite
He believes in unification of the two countries. He says I have proclaimed that the Korean Peninsula will be reunited in the fall of
2025 He's saying South and North Korea are gonna be one
country. He says Korea is the root of mankind but the Korean Peninsula is
divided and the root is not playing its role. The conditions for reunification
are now the best that they have ever been. The people of North Korea, our
brothers and sisters, are in a very difficult situation. We have to take care
of them so they do not have to suffer.
We must leave something for humanity
when Korea is reunified.
The time has come for us to unify and do good work
for the sake of human peace.
He also says things like, you feed a hungry person, right?
You go on the street, you feed a hungry person
and you think to yourself, I've done a good deed.
But the society we are living in now no longer suffers from inadequate food supply. Those who lack food are lazy.
They think they are smarter than they really are. They pick and choose their work.
They are ungrateful for the work they are given. What happens if you give that kind of person food?
You have done a very bad deed and you will be punished.
You should be punished for that.
God put this person in that difficult situation
because they're complaining about the work that is given to them
and they're trying to avoid it.
And now you have praised someone who deserves to be punished.
So you will be punished.
That's wild.
I mean if he's this all-powerful knowing shaman that President Yoon and First Lady Kim believe in, how are they the most hated
couple in the office in the first 100 days? At a presidential debate a lot of
sensitive topics tend to come up but during this presidential debate with
President Yoon being involved he gets grilled about something very specific. Anal acupuncture. Have you done it or not? Apparently an anal
acupuncturist has been closely tied with President Yun during the campaign trail.
Sometimes you just be lurking very close to President Yun. Clearly this guy has
security so you can't just lurk around. It's clear that he's part of the inner
circle in some capacity. So if you're wondering about what anal acupuncture is,
wonder no more.
You stick needles inside the butt, inside,
for 30 minutes at a time while you lay there
and you just feel the electric current radiating
to that region.
You might have some uncontrollable twitching there,
but that's what you signed up for.
The specific acupuncturist filed a patent in 2013
for anal acupuncture stating that it treats
neurological paralysis and prevents and treats strokes as well as dementia.
Yeah.
It's also believed that anal acupuncture is somehow tied to dark shamanism, which both
President Yun and First Lady Kim deny, but all citizens say, we saw what you did to that
cow in a small
region up north at this temple. In a small region up north, President Yoon's
name is there hanging off a banner and his title is there so is First Lady Kim's
names and they are skinning a cow. They're skinning the cow alive and
they're hanging the skin for display along with a stack of 10 dead pigs on stage for the ceremony. Now side note this part is very graphic but
the cow is skinned alive, the cow still alive, the skin is hanging up on display
and the cow's eyes are wide open, the cow is foaming at the mouth, there's rods
stuck into its back, the cow again is very much alive. This was um I is it the one that someone
recorded from the drone or something or no? I think so yeah. Or some right is
that there was some people recorded it? It is believed that the cow sacrifice it
was for the cow to take all of these sins and misfortunes from people's lives
into the afterlife.
The man that facilitated the sacrifice, he was also seen around Yoon during the campaign trail.
So Yoon starts getting grilled on social media with people demanding,
I mean, Yoon says that you have no ties with shamans, but this doesn't make any sense.
And this is all happened during the election, like,
Yes.
There's some sacrifice of the cow
Yes during his whole campaign
And this is very ironic considering first lady Kim has made one of her biggest causes to ban the consumption of dog meat
She and president you have no kids just 12 pets at least six dogs six cats and she's been seen a lot carrying around this
Vegan purse that every time she's seen carrying it it keeps selling out and it's great but everybody's confused.
You raise a dog, you make laws for dogs, but then you turn around and skin a live cow?
The opposition leader states, in the 21st modern century in a country where nuclear
missiles exist, there should never be such a case where a shaman interferes in or affects
state affairs.
State affairs are supposed to be for the benefit of the country, not shamanistic rituals of like, what about the energy?
They have bombs.
The energy of an atomic bomb is uncontrollable.
Some citizens say, beyond that, sure, she likes dogs,
but really, you think she actually likes dogs?
Considering how much pain did she show for the victims of Itaewon the first 100 days president Yoon becomes one of the most dislikes
presidents to take office his approval rating in the first 100 days was down to
24% his previous predecessor a Democratic leader his approval rating
after the first 100 days was 78% I mean even Park Geun-hee's approval ratings
were in like the 50s in the first 100 days.
So this is this is pretty bad. And there's just a few scandals right out the gate that people have a
hard time digesting. A lot of netizens don't like President Yoon's work-life balance. They say there's too much balance.
Let me look at the state of the nation. Get your ass back in the office.
Now to provide some context, the government at the time wanted to raise the maximum weekly
working hours in Korea from 52 hours to 69 hours. And they're like,
will you politicians better be working 90 hours then?
Of course, there were opposition parties that object to everything that Yoon and Kim do.
Like there was this whole fuss about First Lady Kim holding President Biden's arm for a picture
Which yeah, would I do that? Probably not. Is that the most media-trained thing to do?
Probably not, but there's clearly more important things to worry about when it comes to our heads of state
It's further alleged that they would make military nurses and security guards act like hosts at their parties and gatherings
Like to guard the door, to open the door, to serve
food I guess, which is crazy.
And then September 2022, Queen Elizabeth II passes away.
President Yun, along with practically every single other foreign diplomat and world leader,
shows up to London to pay his respects to the Queen, but he doesn't show up the day
all the other leaders show up He states it was due to traffic to which opposition parties argue
Many people are wondering why he failed to offer condolences while the leaders of the United States Canada Japan China
Brazil and Ukraine everybody
Everybody in different levels of the world in different countries with countries that have more pressing issues like Ukraine going on
They showed up that day and you didn't you're making us look like a diplomatic failure
Others speculate maybe who's intentionally late a lot of shamans say that his spirit does not mix well with Western ghosts. I
Mean I feel like some of these sound like fake sitcom news bites,
but in another situation at the UN General Assembly,
President Yun is seen speaking with then President Biden,
and as he's leaving, he's got a hot mic on,
which means the mic is still recording by Korean press.
And he is talking about Biden trying to get the United States
to contribute more to the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Biden has to get it through Congress.
President Yun says to his peers on the hot mic, how could Biden not lose face if the
fuckers don't pass it in Congress?
That's fucking crazy.
Yeah, it was um, what?
Yeah, it also doesn't help that they're just...
Like he's saying like, how is Biden not embarrassed?
Yeah, he should be embarrassed.
And then those fuckers in Congress is crazy.
But at the same time though, himself in South Korea.
Yeah, he's getting out fucked by those fuckers in the National Assembly. He, I guess he would say like that.
That's so weird. Wow.
Yeah, and I mean to which opponents naturally start freaking out understandably because this is
considered a slanderous diplomatic accident that seriously tarnishes national dignity,
which it does, and South Korea undeniably has some dependence with the United States. They have very close ties and it
also doesn't help that Yoon is ultra conservative and then Biden is part of the Democratic Party.
So it's probably worse than that though if you can imagine. A month before his inauguration,
this is when he's already president-elect. There's really no going back.
He goes to visit former president, impeached president Park Geun-hee,
notoriously known for her corruption, the way she handled the Sewer Ferry disaster.
He's the one that prosecuted her.
He's the one that went after her.
He made his whole campaign trail of like,
I care about justice, look at all the people that I brought down,
deep state, whatever.
He goes to her and he apologizes.
He apologizes?
He apologizes.
And that signals two things.
First of all, this guy's a phony.
And second of all, she must have a lot of power still.
Oh yeah, she must still have a lot of power.
I see.
Because her dad was also a former president.
So her family lines
run deep, like the water is very deep in that family. Right, so at this point he's
like I'm a president, I'm gonna make my job easier. Yeah. Let me just... Wow. Yeah.
But if the public ever asks for an apology about something, he has a very
blase way of handling things. He would almost taunt the public. That's what it feels like.
For example, President Yun was expected to apologize for some tasteless comments he made about the opposition party leaders.
He just posts a picture of his dog and he's holding out an apple for his dog. In Korean,
the word for apology is ssagwa. The word for apple is ssagwa.
He's like, here's your apology. That's what it seems like. To the dog.
Yeah, to the dog, to the people.
Like you want an apology, here's your apology.
You want a 사과, here's your apple.
That is crazy.
It feels like he's mocking the demands of the public.
He is crazy.
He doesn't write it, but that's pretty much what it means.
Oh yeah.
It's like the subtext to it.
It's like, you're just...
Insane.
Yeah, like you're sending a meme on Twitter.
Yes. 2022 floods become very extreme. It's like you're just insane. Yeah, like you're sending a meme on Twitter. Yes
2022 floods become very extreme people and so I'm sure you guys have seen those memes
Yeah, they made memes out of it or it's like that guy sitting on the roof of his car and he looks somewhat chill Oh, and then people are like me when the world is falling apart. Yeah became like a thing but it
People died in the floods
People were it was bad and there's these sub-basement units in South Korea
that are really difficult. if you've seen the movie Parasite, that's basically
what it's on. families are drowning. so if you're walking on the street, there is
a window at where your feet are and it goes down a level and that's the only
sunlight some of these units get. and now if there's floods, it's just flooding in.
some of these people are drowning and passing away in their own homes
President Yun comes back and he's got a whole story to tell cuz I guess
presidential speech. President Yun just casually mentions, while I was leaving
work yesterday I noticed that other apartments were already becoming
flooded. So what does he do about it? He goes on vacation. He says he spent the entirety
just reflecting on how he's gonna serve the will of the people while keeping his passion fired up.
Then when he finally comes back to help with the flood victims, he's just taking pictures,
squatting down, and looking into the window of the sub-basement homes from the street level. He
doesn't even go inside, to which people are questioning questioning how do you see that and still proceed to drive home?
how do you just take these pictures? does this guy have ice in his veins? what is happening?
the worst PR response possible is given by the senior secretary of the president.
is the president supposed to stay at the office just because it's raining?
what?
it does indeed somehow get worse. in 2022, one of the worst typhoons in years hits the southern region of South Korea.
And what I can only describe as the most questionable PR press tour,
President Yun and his staff, all wearing matching uniforms,
go to check on the civilians that have been affected to hear their grievances,
take some videos, rub off some presidential ore on them, and be on his merry way.
That's what it seems like he's doing.
A lot of it is recorded.
President Yun walks into this small, tiny hole in the wall restaurant
that focuses on barley rice.
That's their specialty.
You got to know that barley rice is so delicious there, probably.
But it's this tiny little restaurant.
It probably sits four people.
They've got a whole lunch set menu for six dollars with barley rice soup, side dishes
And there's these two elderly women standing inside this tiny little square of a box
Everybody sits on the floor on all the small tables to eat. It's kind of cute
Probably incredible food. You have the president walking in with the whole entourage of like 40 people behind them and they're just recording him
Fine. He's the president. He's not coming alone, but
walks in. Cameras are recording and the two older women they seem like nice little grandmas with curly permed hair and they just have this
very homey southern accent. Mr. President, please save us, please save us. We have
nothing left. There's no water. There's no electricity. We've got nothing. He shakes
their hand, walks in between them,
and then walks past them in this tiny little cramped space
and goes to the printed picture
of the lunch set menu on the wall.
He doesn't even address what they just said.
He just goes to the barley rice picture
and is staring at it.
Okay.
He looks hungry. The comments read
zero empathy. Instead of even making
eye contact with the woman, he's looking at the menu
first. This is insane. Another writes
the thing he looked at the longest
inside that restaurant was the menu board. The two
women are crying and he goes to look at the menu?
Should he get a cognitive test?
Wait, what's happening?
He's just analyzing the menu.
Oh, like he's just like, okay, let me just analyzing the menu. Oh like he just like okay
Let me just get my lunch like yeah, cool. Cool. Sounds good. Yeah, let me see if I want to eat here
Is the vibe that people get?
He said people are commenting he looks the most serious looking at that menu. He looks so serious
I thought he was gonna place an order
His supporters will argue that he's just a tough communicator, slightly arrogant,
but he's still gonna do some good. He's a prosecutor general that went after all of the
presidents for corruption. He's not gonna be corrupt. It is alleged that they were working
tirelessly to pass a massive government construction project. They were trying to do these like
transportation projects that would cost astronomical amounts, like wildly expensive government contracts.
He wanted to change like 50% of the transportation maps to benefit the areas
where him and his family members, specifically Kim Gun-hee, his wife, and
her parents have a lot of land.
So he's trying to jack up his own, like, family's real estate worth.
Yes. The project was scrapped once it became a full-blown scandal.
Wow.
Another dangerous aspect for citizens is
President Yun has a notoriously uncomfortable relationship with North Korea.
He just keeps pissing off Rocket Man.
North Korean Supreme Leader states,
We do not want war, but we also have no intention of avoiding it.
Which is exactly the statement that absolutely nobody in South Korea wants to hear.
He continues,
Explicitly speaking, you know, we will never unilaterally unleash a war if the enemies don't provoke us.
Meanwhile, President Yun states,
Should North Korea provoke us,
we will punish them multiple times as hard.
In order to attain peace,
we must make overwhelmingly superior war preparations.
Kim Jong-un counters back, making it clear,
our army should deal a deadly blow
to thoroughly annihilate them if we are provoked.
At one point, North Korea's official message
through Kim Jong-un's sister, Rocket Woman, is we don't like Yoon Seok-yeol himself.
Dogs will always bark as a puppy or an adult. Same goes for the one with the
title of president. Oh it's Ted's. Wow. And you have to remember the previous president, Democratic leader Moon, he went and visited
Kim Jong-un.
They had a meeting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So things just start spiraling downhill.
In 2022, when President Yun is elected into office, North Korea decides that they want
to redefine what the word posturing means.
They start launching nonstop missiles, stating, these tests are a clear warning to our enemies. To which President Yoon's office
responds stating that the missiles launched by North Korea aren't even
that fast. So we could probably intercept them, but the whole thing has civilians
on edge because yeah, but one missile straight into Seoul is all it takes buddy
so let's calm down
and what is the first lady doing during all of this?
plagiarizing photos
plagiarizing famous people's photos there is a picture of her visiting Cambodia and holding an emaciated child in her arms
people started noticing a similarity to a very famous photo that has gone down in history of Audrey Hepburn
well known actress turned renowned philanthropist holding an emaciated child in her arms
not only that, the two of them are wearing similar simple dark colored collared short sleeve collared
shirts. Their hair is tied back. Someone comments, also why the hell is this
woman staring off into the blue whilst volunteering? So Audrey Hepburn looks
like she's walking somewhere holding that child and someone took a photo. Kim
Gyeon-hee looks like she's just staring off into the sky, like having a profound moment. Is she okay in the head? People are wondering.
There's a famous picture of Jackie Kennedy wearing an iconic outfit, all
white skirt set. JFK is sitting in his office chair going over papers. She's
standing next to him like a dutiful wife watching over him with like a slight
smile on her face. Her arms are behind her back. It's like the symbol of traditional family unit.
President Yun and First Lady Kim recreate that picture but on the
presidential jet. She's just copying Audrey Hepburn, she's copying and
dressing like Jackie Kennedy, wearing the same clothes, doing the same pictures,
literally posing for the pictures, and it just seems like everything about is
about pictures for her. When she goes to look at a new bridge that was built
She dresses in like a Barbie architect outfit was it you remember there was the whole trend of people
Like talking about how cool she looks remember yes like that was like a whole thing everyone's like oh my god
Look at South Korea's first lady like dress to the yes
I mean to be fair like objectively
I think that her fashion choices are good. Yeah, but now you see like the yeah the scenes
Oh, oh my goodness, so cringy. It's so cringy. It feels like she wants to be a celebrity more than anything
She's got fan clubs with people showing up with t-shirts that say I love Kim Gun-hee and there are allegations that she started, made, and grew her own fan club. one psychologist thinks the
personality of First Lady Kim, I think the biggest characteristic is her desire
for recognition. she wants positions where she can be noticed, recognized,
loved, and given attention and she will keep trying to get to higher and higher
positions. people have also pointed out her plastic surgery
with a former personal acquaintance
turned lifelong hater of Kim Gun-hee saying,
you can't even call it plastic surgery.
It's a complete transplant of a face.
There is something very uncanny valley about her face.
It is believed that she's had at least one facelift
amongst other procedures.
People have been comparing her earlobes, even her hairl line, so those are usually indicators of a facelift.
So like, to put it simply, imagine a facelift. You have a mattress. You sleep on that mattress every single day.
The fitted sheet gets a little wrinkly.
So then you lift up the top part of the mattress, you pull the fitted sheet back, and then you stuff it under.
So usually that place is going to be near your ears or your hairline where they cut some of that excess skin off after they pull it tight and then they
re-sew it her hairline is gnarly it's like someone just made an eyeshadow line
across her hairline and then her ears she did have a knife cut ear which is a
very slim earlobe but then now it's a very bulbous earlobe so people have been
comparing that but I will say I mean yeah yeah it's a very bulbous earlobe. So people have been comparing that. But I will say, I mean, yeah, it's plastic surgery.
What's wrong with that?
Netizens have made jokes of it.
One of the bigger memes since they took office
is this 11 picture collage
of Kim Gun-hee's transformation over the years.
The pictures are all numbered one through 11,
and the meme is, pick which one she should have stopped at with usually picking people picking number 4 or number 5
like her progression of face. They're saying like how much plastic surgery would you have stopped at
to look the best and they're like she should have stopped at number 4 but instead she's at number 11
so that's become a meme. There are also other memes of like I can't wait until a whole movie comes out about her
And they use 11 different actresses
Because she looks so different
Which there was a movie a documentary about the first lady
Yes, there are other scandals involving the first lady Kim during the presidential race
but also the first 100 days in office her resume is incredibly packed and most of it is fake.
Confirmed fake?
Yes.
At a press conference, she even confirms it and she apologizes.
She says, I inflated my career to look better and made some mistakes.
I shouldn't have done that.
Looking back, it was a very shameful thing and I sincerely apologize.
I will take the time to quietly reflect and contemplate." Do you know was she
faked? Yeah, she faked being an executive at a gaming company but her timeline
didn't make sense because she was working there before the LLC was even
formed, before the company was even spawned into existence. She had been an
executive there. Yeah, a lot of just random things like she's the director of non-existent companies.
Furthermore, her master thesis in college
is completely copied and she claims that she's pretty good at English, right?
However, her thesis, the title reads
Member Yuji.
What's that?
In Korean, she's trying to write the retention of members,
like retaining, keeping, maintaining members.
유지 is the translation of retention.
유지 is the transliteration.
Okay, for example, it's like if you were to tell me to translate happy person.
In Korean, happy person is like 행복한 사람, right? And I you were to tell me to translate happy person in Korean happy person is like
Right, and I'm trying to write it in English. It should be happy person. But instead I write happy
Sadam I just write s a r a m
So it's right happy people, but I write happy s a r a m
So for anyone who doesn't speak Korean, they're gonna be like, what is Saram? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see.
Okay, so she's a complete fraud.
Basically, I mean, allegedly.
I'm scared.
Yeah, and it's also said that President Yun
and the First Lady Kim were headed to the US
and they do some, there's a lot of drama here
that I get very stressed about. Okay so Jill
Biden suggested a Lady Gaga and Blackpink performance multiple times and this flies under
the radar for quite a bit. Clearly Blackpink members have insane schedules maybe they just
can't make it. There are speculations about it, there's rumors about it, but they're shut down by
the president's office saying the speculated performances being reported by the media is not
part of the agenda for the upcoming state visit but out of seemingly nowhere the chief of south
korea's national security office resigns he states that it is because he withheld at least
six requests from jill biden to invite black pink to perform at the state dinner
he said he never told yg he neverpink, he said he just ignored it.
He says, I have a heavy responsibility for handling the problem of Blackpink's performance,
which was expected as the highlight of this state visit.
But the allegation is, no, it's not the chief of national security, he's the fall guy.
Why would he care who performs at the state visit?
People were like, oh my god, even these old ajusshis have a bias?
No, people were like, this doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't even impact national security.
It is believed that the true reason is First Lady Kim
does not like being around younger, more talented, famous women.
Oh.
Oh, oh.
She did end up crossing paths with Blackpink
at the British Royal Family's gathering
and even with Rosé at the Apex Summit.
I will say that this scandal is a bit more contentious in the fact that it's kind of a he said she said.
Democratic party leaders in South Korea claim that Blackpink was barred from performing in a sense due to First Lady Kim.
First Lady Kim's office states that it was a mutual decision by the Blue House and the White House to not hold the concert.
They state that the initial agreement would have been that the US covers the cost for getting Lady Gaga,
Korea will cover the cost of Blackpink. Blackpink agreed to not get paid for
their performance. They said we'll do it for free because you know we're
patriots whatever right for world peace but we might need help covering the
flights for all the staff because it's not just the four of them right they got
sound people manager manager, security.
And also I feel like BlackPink members might have paid
out of pocket if they were asked,
but it wasn't really up to them.
It was up to YG.
And it's taxpayer money.
Yes.
So then first lady Kim said, we were actually ready,
but it was Jill Biden who called the thing off
because the cost to cover Lady Gaga's team was just too much
taxpayer money on the United States part
That's what she says. We have no idea
What is like America is just
too much in a
Craziness to even address anything like that right now
So with now netizens are split into three groups some defending first lady Kim
Media who hate her will write lies and wait until she responds with proof. This is ridiculous.
However, I will state I did not see any proof but others are against her stating the fact that
officials even responded to this. Like why does it seem like every other week some korean government
official is involving themselves in kpop? Don't they have national birth rate crises to deal with?
Like what the hell is going on over there? or others just
responding protect Lady Gaga and Blackpink from politicians we're glad
taxpayer money was not used on their performances. I will say I do see her
not being a girl's girl. Kim Gunhee is someone who takes your breath away not
by her looks but she's got some diabolical opinions. in one recorded phone call with a reporter, Kim talks about another politician who was convicted of R-wording his secretary multiple times.
He's part of the Democratic Party, this politician. Kim Gunhee and her husband, ultra conservative.
She says, I feel really sorry for Ahn. You know, my husband and I are strongly on his side. She also states the reason that liberal male politicians have more R-word cases is because
they're not smart enough or rich enough to just pay off the woman. She says
conservatives make sure to pay. That's why we don't see hashtag me too happening
as strongly in the conservative party. Me too cases happen when you don't pay
your dues. They don't they want to play around but they don't have the money to
Wait, this is recorded audio of her. Yeah
That is how is that?
Yeah, like not the biggest
Yeah
Also first lady kim's mom was indicted and sentenced to like a year in prison while they were in office for corruption
like a year in prison while they were in office for corruption and up until all of this during the presidential campaign during his presidency it seems like
Kim Gun-hee is almost the worst counterpart a lot of the attacks are
more about Kim Gun-hee and her very questionable family her insane ethics
meanwhile Yoon Seok-yol is like a little...
does whatever his wife says. Yeah, yeah, the whole sentiment is she's the one that's in charge. Yes,
people call her the president's Achilles heel. They call her all sorts of things and they wonder
is she the one running everything? So for example, there is this structure that was built in 14th
century. It's a shrine. It's where the dynasty kings would grieve their ancestors
This is like a historical place in South Korea. It's typically off-limits to even the public. It's not even a museum
You just can't go you need very strict approval. You probably have to be a historian
You probably have to be a researcher
Maybe an artist once in a while First Lady Lady Kim goes in there, hosts a party,
brings in antique chairs and tables for a tea party
for personal use.
Side note, apparently Christopher Rothko,
son of Mark Rothko, the late artist, was in attendance.
It got to the point where the National Cultural
Heritage Agency issued a public apology.
We apologize for the controversy caused by the regulations
regarding venue approval for this event.
And people were so mad at her. She's treating this like a freaking cafe.
Yeah, like a very newly opened, exclusive...
Cafe! One netizen writes,
Even Chosun kings would show respect while visiting this shrine.
It is not a place for individuals to bring palace furniture and casually banter over cupcakes to which many people who know the couple
say I don't think Yoon was ever the president that fool is just a puppet who
does what he's told the real president is Kim Gun-hee she's the one making the
moves articles start getting released with titles along the lines of is the
president afraid of his wife there's pictures and videos of President
Yoon and First Lady Kim in public mainly diplomatic settings where you can see first lady kim
gesturing at him like get up like come on what are you doing like put the alcohol down
and for pillars of the ultra conservative movement i mean a lot of his supporters are guys
young guys who feel like rights equal rights is ruining the world, who feel
like all women are just in charge and running things and are victimizing all
men, like he's that's his demographic or really old people. yeah he's captured
like the young angry male audience and so for ultra conservative, ultra
traditional, they aren't really that conservative.
She's like holding him by the neck.
They married late, they have no children, she seems to be walking him like a dog.
It's just very interesting.
And when she's not around, he just seems so lost.
There was one meeting where President Yun has to go visit the British Prime Minister's residence.
He gets dropped off, he has to walk to the door and knock.
And there's a whole swarm of press waiting to take pictures and videos
because it's like, oh my god, they're just having like a casual dinner.
Two massive heads of state.
He just walks right past the front door of the house.
He looks very confused.
The press are yelling at him in English,
This way, sir.
Where is he going?
Hello, this way.
This way, sir.
He just looks so lost and confused
Others say yeah, he might be controlled by his wife But they're both controlled by money and power one historian states the most incompetent president a puppet manipulated by the privileged and the powerful
Even Kim Gun-hee says herself in a recorded phone call people always say about me and my husband, you two are complete opposites. First Lady Kim, you're a man and President Yoon is
completely a woman. They always say that and after getting married I think it's
true. I'm the man and my husband is completely the woman. This is fucking crazy.
In another one she says, my husband is pretty dumb. He's a total clumsy person.
He couldn't get anything done without me to look after him as dumb as he might be
I keep him around because he listens to me who's recording these and who is she talking?
She's talking to opposition reporters that she believes she has persuaded into becoming obsessed with her
He's got a belly he snores at night eats like a pig and is always passing gas. Do you think you could put up with that?
Side note, Kim Geun-hee was not even her real birth name. She changed her name from Kim Myung-shin to Kim Geun-hee
The hanja so like the korean traditional symbol for her name reads hope
And to build but that to build is strongly associated with a country so you can assume her new name means
To hope to build a country
Kim Geun-hee
And we're just supposed to believe that she's a supportive wife and it does seem like she's running stuff
Recently there have been more scandals more recorded secretly recorded videos of
there have been more scandals, more secretly recorded videos of Kim Gun-hee meeting with a very famous American Korean pastor by the name of Choi. He's very controversial as well. A lot of people say
that he works for North Korea. He's very positive about the North Korean regime. He's made multiple
videos. He's made multiple articles. But he goes in, meets with Kim Gun-hee,
and starts giving her bribery gifts while secretly recording her, including a $2,000 Dior bag,
to which she accepts it, and that becomes a massive scandal of bribery and corruption.
And it just seems like that's nothing, because people are like,
a $2,000 Dior bag? That's insane! A lot of other politicians will take millions of dollars. Are they just like,
do they not know how to play the game? It doesn't appear that way. It appears that
maybe this is they just take everything. For example, in a lot of pictures, First
Lady Kim would show up to events, diplomatic events, with very expensive,
very highly identifiable high-end jewelry. $18,000 Tiffany yellow gold and platinum brooch
with diamonds and pink sapphires.
A Van Cleef snowflake pendant,
platinum with diamonds for $50,000.
Cartier bracelets for $12,000, $15,000.
And people are like, these seem like gifts.
In a recorded phone call, she says,
the necklace that people are freaking
out about the $50,000 necklace it's not even worth mentioning I usually don't
even wear accessories in my profession I really can't even if I want to if you
look at my photos I'm always wearing suits I haven't purchased any
accessories at all in a really long time the pastor asks her then what's the
issue it keeps coming up in media I don't even know where it's coming from. Those pieces, the jewelry, I borrowed them.
My friend's mom told me, you need accessories as the first lady.
So I thought I should at least have some minimal accessories for overseas state visits.
So I asked around and I borrowed them.
They're making a giant fuss about it, but I don't even know how much these things cost.
I just borrowed them from my friend's mother.
I mean, I was so shocked. I didn't even know what brands they came from
Yeah, right besides. I don't even have a special activity fund every outfit
I wear I purchase on my own card, which is highly doubtable because she purchased a $5,000 cat tower on taxpayer money
What kind of cat tower cost 5,000 a lot of people think that she got scammed because you can find similar ones for $200.
Oh, like it's a name brand?
It looks name brand, but it also looks not...
It looks like I could find it on Taobao for like $50.
How could it be $5,000? It doesn't even make sense.
Because I can't imagine like a dollar bag for... No.
A thousand dollars.
What could it be, right?
Yeah.
That's weird.
And in other phone calls, she constantly says things like, when we take power, when we became
president, it sounds like she believes she is the president.
So about the Masha a lot, right?
What was the whole whole leading up events?
Because that was the biggest news at that time. But what happened?
It appears, okay, so the Dior bag was one of the catalysts. It was another scandal.
So non-stop, there have been motions and attempts by the National Assembly to impeach the president. And so I think it was like maybe they felt this was the last straw
that it could be handled, so they enacted martial law.
Right, so they feel like they're about to lose it all.
Like the whole nation hates them.
The final thing that they could do is declare that.
Yes.
And assuming if the wife is likely in charge of things, it could also be
her idea like, hey, just do this. It could be the shaman's idea. And I think that's why people are
really upset because we should be able to at least elect the person we think we're electing, right?
What does that even mean? So for the first time in 45 years, martial law is
declared in South Korea. the last time martial law was declared, it lasted over
a year, 456 days. but there was a whole team that was dedicated to censoring the
media, the public, also the words punishment, anti-state forces, I mean these
are very vague. who do you determine to be in that group?
So lawmakers in the National Assembly, the only way to end martial law is to have all the National Assembly members or at least a good chunk of them, majority of them, vote against it.
And that is why the soldiers show up to the National Assembly and try to block them.
But I will say a lot of these soldiers did not want to be there.
They did not believe in martial law, but the way that Korea works,
I know a lot of people in America might be like,
well then don't show up, then don't do your job.
But in Korea, if you don't do these things,
your life is over.
Yeah, I mean, for a soldier,
you have to follow the rules.
So they show up,
and most of them don't even look like they're trying
because it takes them what, an hour or two
to break a first story window to
raid the National Assembly
Yeah, and some of them are just kind of pointing rifles at people but not really doing anything
They're just getting fire extinguished and being like, ah stop
One of them even came out and was like our whole unit was trying to stall and we were eating like ramen in the convenience store
To see if like maybe it
wouldn't happen yeah yeah a lot of people said you can tell it was kind of
like a show on everybody's parts like it was almost like the protesters there a
lot of them understood that it has to appear like the soldiers held out the
soldiers have to appear like they're holding out.
That is pretty interesting to see that there's nothing like, I guess, you know, no, nobody
was like hurt, right?
Yes, that's what a lot of people are saying.
Nobody was hurt.
And then a lot of these National Assembly members, they're like 80 year olds, and you're telling me
they got past 20, 30 year old dudes
with rifles and tanks and helicopters.
They're doing like 300 pushups a day
and this 80 year old politician
broke through.
Broke through.
And went in there and cast a vote.
Yeah.
Wasn't there a guy who was like live streaming
was that the one that you're talking about a lot of them were live streaming one of them he's 78
years old he no he's 83 he climbed the wall gets into the national assembly votes votes against
martial law he's a full-blown grandpa and there's pictures of him just dead asleep after the vote
where in the national. They pass it.
Martial law is vetoed and then he just knocks out on the chair. Because it's past his bedtime.
Yeah, he's so tired. Also this is the sixth martial law act in his life so he's been
around town. He's seen a lot. Oh, okay. He goes viral because also a lot of younger lawmakers
were under fire. So a lot of younger politicians,
they were outside the building screaming,
recording, live streaming,
like they're not letting us in, democracy is dead.
Meanwhile, 83 year old grandpa went in,
casted his vote and is now sleeping.
So a lot of people were like, really, young generation?
We could maybe do a little better, don't embarrass us.
So officially, majority of the National Assembly, not everybody
showed up, most of the conservatives did not show up to vote, only like a few
handful of them did and they all voted against martial law but it was mainly
the Democratic Party and they were all cheering in unison. Everybody outside was
cheering and a lot of people feel the real reason that president Yoon was seeking
Martial law is his desire to evade investigations and to not get impeached
That's so yeah, it's almost like you can I guess you can kind of foresee
What what what is this gonna lead to right? Are you gonna turn this into North Korea like?
You know what I mean? Like it's kind kinda weird that you would do something like this.
Almost there's no forethought.
No.
And it's very interesting because
I mean the water is so deep in this case
and I don't wanna bore anybody and go too deep
but previous to martial law being enacted at 11pm,
Kim Gun-hee went to her plastic surgeon's
office for 3 hours.
there are allegations that she was under propofol, the anesthetic that makes you feel euphoria,
that she was just getting a hit before, and there's even juxtapositions of her on this
whole europe trip with her husband.
so these are diplomatic events, these are state events.
She goes to Europe and she brings the doctor, the president's doctor. So each president gets to choose their own doctor, right?
Most people will choose like an internal medicine doctor or something, I assume, or like a surgeon.
They choose a plastic surgeon as their main doctor. Very strange. Like what are we doing? Just Botox on the trail?
What's happening?
She brings him to Europe and that whole European trip,
a lot of citizens have gathered
that she looks very dizzy and woozy.
She looks like she's falling asleep half the time.
She looks like when she's climbing up the stairs
to the presidential jet, she's stumbling.
She's like teeter tottering.
People thought it was maybe he's there to administer propofol during the entirety of the trip
so there's a lot of these allegations that make the whole water even deeper
there were allegations that Kim Geun-hee was a high-end escort prior to marrying the now-impeached president
so there's a lot of um just a lot of depth in a lot of these rumors.
Which you were talking about how there's no foresight into any of this, right?
This also becomes a huge news cycle where there is this reporter named Kim Ah-Joon.
And some people who don't like him call him a major conspiracy theorist, some people who
love him call him an investigative reporter.
I think it really just depends on which side of
the aisle that you're on. But he alleges that this whole thing, people thought
that Yoon was just mindlessly playing checkers, maybe he was playing chess. He
says that he received personal information from a foreign intelligence
officer. A lot of Koreans are like, it's got to be the United States, we don't know.
That's the real plan of the martial law was to force a war, which take all of
this, if you haven't already, the entire episode with like a whole gallon of salt
because it's politics and nobody ever tells the truth. He says the plan goes
like this, someone must die. The People's Party leader, that's gonna be the person
that dies. So it's gonna be the person on Yoon's side. The leader of Yoon's party is going to die.
And then North Korean uniforms are gonna be buried nearby
to draw connections that North Korean operatives have come in
to assassinate the People's Party leader.
Then, to take the plan a step further,
several US soldiers based in South Korea will be killed.
And then the US will think it's from North Korea so then
they'll come in and they'll wage a war and then some people say it's not even a
war of the Koreas some people allege maybe this is a proxy war facilitated to
piss off China and then North Korea like it's a whole thing he further states
that he received tips about a potential biochemical terror attack.
Even saying it, he clarifies,
look, I haven't been able to verify all the facts.
It sounded so outrageous to me.
I'm just telling you
what this foreign intelligence officer told me.
I'm not telling you anything more.
It sounds like something out of a novel,
but I will say the source comes from a very friendly country
with an embassy in South Korea. That's it. That's all I'm saying.
I will say he is a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but I mean, what do I know about conspiracy theories?
Who knows which ones are true? Which ones are not? Which ones are crazy?
But the Democratic leader of South Korea has even said yeah, this one's a little crazy
Like there is no proof in any of this other people say well
The CIA has done crazier things to disrupt regimes in different countries
So we did know people in Korea at that point when this happened they were scared because yes
They don't know what this means it could literally leads to something with North Korea
Yeah, she can go down because I think also there were escalating tensions with North Korea and things were already not looking good
And I think that people like to scoff at North Korea because it's rocket man and he's obsessed with his rockets
but also you just never know and
with that
he has undeclared martial law within six hours and
Recently he has been formally
impeached as president.
The National Assembly impeaches the acting president as well and the prime minister Han Deok-soo.
And now we have...
Yeah, it's like...
So they impeached a bunch of people?
Yeah, the prime minister was also impeached,
so then he couldn't be the acting president after President Yun gets impeached.
And it's just like
So many people are getting impeached
Now there is um, the deputy prime minister and minister of economy and finance will be the acting president
But also so it's constantly like a different acting president. Yeah, i will say it's like there's really not a president right now
They're gonna have like a speedy election like a a snap election that's gonna take place early June. Wow.
Yeah.
That is wild.
So, that's going to be very interesting.
And the president and his wife are now moving back to Acrovista.
They're personal residents.
And a lot of residents there are not happy about any of this but it it
Most Koreans are pretty positive that both of them are gonna be in prison soon
Like they're going to be investigated for corruption and all sorts of things. It's just a matter of time
It seems like probably the front-runner for becoming the next president South Korea is
Probably the front runner for becoming the next president in South Korea is Lee Jae-myeong. He is the Democratic Party leader.
He lost to Yoon in 2022.
But I don't know.
Maybe nobody should be president of South Korea because you really just don't have the best luck
or the best feng shui because that man was also stabbed in the neck last year.
Someone who really hated him came up to him, pretended to be a fan, hugged him, and then stabbed him in the neck last year someone who really hated him came up to him pretended to be
a fan hugged him and then stabbed him in the neck he survived seems like he will
be the front-runner but it's just um yeah a lot of Koreans are like maybe
none of us should try to be president because it doesn't seem good but also
we need a good president wow and so with that that is the current case of what is happening in South Korea and
Who was running the country for the past two years because people think it's Kim Gun-hee and her shaman and
The movie that yes about Kim. Yes recently. So the documentary came out
This was before martial law was enacted and it was it mainly had to do with the Dior bag and some of the recorded conversations that she had with an opposition journalist.
So the movie came out, and then the martial law happened.
Yes.
And then, or like the movie was made, martial law happens, people start flocking to the movies,
and everyone is like, wow, the documentary producers are probably making so much money but also you might go missing so be careful
What do you mean you might go missing?
I don't know shamanism power corruption
Crazier things have happened
What a mess
Yeah, but a lot of foreigners are just writing one thing. I just want to see the Dior bag that rocked the nation
is it that pretty of a bag?
yeah, it's been crazy
let me know in the comments what are your thoughts on this
and obviously I tried to do as much research
so we had our Korean researchers help assist in gathering most of the data
we went through all of the English sources that we could find
that pertained to a lot of the stuff that we were talking about
I was talking to my parents, I was talking to family members, I was talking to friends in Korea,
just trying to get a good clear picture and it was really difficult because obviously it's concerning politics
so everybody's gonna have their own perspective of who's right and who's wrong so then to just kind of
wither down that and get to the general what's happening over there. This is what we got too but
if you live in Korea or if you know anything more or anything that's
really important please let us know in the comments because I read all the
comments and I just want to know. But thank you for listening, stay safe, and I
will see you in the next one.