that was weird, right?

  • duderium [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Politicians in South Korea kill themselves or get thrown in prison all the time. In some ways it’s a very healthy society.

  • volkvulture [none/use name]
    ·
    4 years ago

    there was an entire "QAnon" anti-elite anti-government right wing conspiracy centering around children who died in the 2014 ferry sinking and a weird cultish Rasputin type magician-political advisor and horse dancing.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28458810

    https://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/30/13775920/south-korea-president-park-geun-hye-scandal-prison-sentence

    S. Korean right-wingers even stormed the legislature at the end of 2019

    https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/protesters-storm-national-assembly-capping-off-a-divisive-year-for-korean-politics/

  • Sushi_Desires
    ·
    4 years ago

    Don't remember that one, but the Church of Eternal Life scandal thing was pretty wild.