WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA

Can someone give me a quick rundown of WTF is happening in South Korea right now?

Someone told me that the president is being controlled by a pyschic billionaire who drowned 300 people, and that the entire government has resigned?

What???

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Here you go, my man.

Here you go m8

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>The major breakthrough occurred on October 24, when a cable TV network JTBC discovered a Galaxy Tab belonging to Choi Soon-sil in the office that she abandoned. The tablet was the Pandora's Box--it had the presidential speeches with Choi's markups, presidential briefs for cabinet meetings, appointment information for presidential aides, chat messages with presidential aides, the president's vacation schedule, draft designs for commemorative stamps featuring the president, and much, much more. The discovery of the tablet was worthy of "World's Dumbest Criminals"--the tablet was simply left behind in Choi's office with no encryption, and the files were available for anyone to open. And just in case Choi Soon-sil denied ownership of the tablet, its image gallery contained her selfie.

>The next day, the president attempted to stem the tide by issuing a public apology, in which she said Choi was someone who "helped during [her] difficult past." Although Park admitted that Choi had reviewed the draft speeches, she said Choi only conveyed her personal impressions, and at any rate stopped shortly after her presidential office was formed. The ensuing tsunami of revelations showed immediately that the president was lying; one of Choi's cronies said Choi was receiving presidential briefing as recently as earlier this year. The president's approval rating plummeted to around 17 percent, with more than 40 percent of the respondents demanding resignation or impeachment. Even conservative newspapers like Chosun Ilbo, which has been reliably in Park's corner throughout her administration, has issued daily editorials demanding the Prime Minister and the entire cabinet to resign.

GLORY TO KIM JONG UN HE WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG SOUTH KOREA IS A FUCKING MESS WHEN WILL NORTH KOREA ANNEX THE SHITHOLE AND UNIFY KOREA WITHOUT THIS ANIME BULLSHIT

>Even in her apology, Park Geun-hye showed that she still might be under Choi Soon-sil's hold. What would a self-interested politician would do, if the corruption of one of his cronies was revealed? The politician would sell the crony down the river, denying up and down that he ever knew or interacted with the crony. Such denial would be cowardly and dishonest, but at least it is predictable. But not with Park Geun-hye. She stood in front of the whole country and admitted that Choi Soon-sil fixed her speeches. Instead of cutting ties with her, Park reaffirmed that Choi was an old friend who helped her during difficult times.

>This is utterly irrational. Rational people can expect that a corrupt politician may steal money for himself. They can even expect that he may steal for his family. But no one can expect that a corrupt politician would steal money for a daughter of a fucking psychic who claimed to speak with her dead mother. No one, not even the most cynical Korean, expected that the president would refuse to cut ties with Choi Soon-sil, a woman with no discernible talent other than manipulating the president and humiliating her in the process. Koreans may expect that the president would be corrupt, but they never could have expected that the president might be feeble in her mind.

I love the human race

>Every insane rumor about the president--the kind that you would see from some remote corner of the internet and laugh off--is now fair game. For years, there have been rumors that the name of Park's political party, the Saenuri Party, is a code name for a cult named shincheonji. Well, why not? We already know that Choi Soon-sil was the one who actually produced Park's inauguration, which featured numerous little multi-colored bags that are used for shamanistic rituals. Would it really surprise you Park Geun-hye named her party after a cult? Did you hear that Choi Soon-sil may have had a hidden son who worked at the presidential residence? Well, why not? We already know Choi made her personal trainer into a presidential aide--what's another hidden son?

this a very stupid thread muslim stop post action did not happen

>In a Wikileaks cable from 2007 when Park Geun-hye first ran for president, the U.S. Ambassador for Korea noted: "Rumors are rife that the late pastor had complete control over Park's body and soul during her formative years and that his children accumulated enormous wealth as a result."

Revolution. Right-wing pupets will be swept away by people's power.

>Caring about politics
Lets talk about something fun, like kdrams. Watch are you guys watching? I finished watching Cinderella and four knights, found it pretty good, the ending was a bit rushed imo tho

>be Korean
>live in US for most of my life
>go to university in Canada
>suddenly called back to do military service in Korea
>mfw I'm stuck here for two more years while MGS plots happen in the background

what would happen if you dodged the call?

he couldnt come to korea again and he would bring shame to family

>that pic
Wut
Park is a right wing conservative

Exact same thing is happening to my best friend right now :( good luck bro

SJWs are hated because they're authoritarian quacks who push their delusional bullshit onto other people. One particular reason they see so much backlash is due to how similar they resemble authoritarian rightwingers when the left has traditionally opposed such, especially in Anglo or Western European countries.

It's also not unheard of for SJWs and hardcore rightwingers to team up because they share so many of these crazy ideas. The unholy alliance between feminism and anti-porn conservatives in the '70s and '80s is an example. See the Horseshoe theory.

That user uses SJW specifically, but the term itself is just a manifestation of the same trend of over-bearing governments/corporations driven by cultish devotion to well-meaning platitudes hiding dangerous ideas, the same thing counter-cultures have been fighting since inception of the concept. It's a newer name for the same thing, something that transcends the right-left spectrum.

This. I wanted to say something to that guy but I wouldn't have been able to express the idea nearly as clearly.

This shit could only happen in asia, fuckin loonies

I'm wondering now if Japan has shit like this

I always found it strange how successful Korea is, secret societies confirmed best government.
BRING ILLUMINATI BACK

Come here too my friends

EXACTLY the same thing happens here it just has a different name The internet watch foundation and the filtering software is called cleanfeed.

As for hacking computers see gamma international which is british or any of the snowden leaks.

And in china the filter is for porn and public safety and in russia and saudi arabia and pakistan and cuba.

anyway the internet (in its entirety) is controlled by 14 people who hold 7 keys.

the cables are owned by governments and big corporations, isps get to decide what service we get.

But who cares? we survived without the internet before we can do it again.

That doesnt make sense
Cons wanted to ban porn long before SJWism was a thing
It would make more sense to call SJWs conservatives

The internet isn't controlled by those 14 people.
Those 14 people are those entrusted with a backup of the internet, in case it is somehow destroyed. They don't have any power over the current, existing web architecture.

social justice is an important concept within itself, the betterment of society and the uplifting of people of colour and women amongst other oppressed groups is a genuine liberation.

the equality or the best achieveable equality of peoples is a great goal, however disadvantaging others is clearly wrong in the achievement of this goal.

Often you find the privileged women and minorities are from very rich and established families.

For example early feminism is filled with many heiresses and the bbc has a black speaker on privilege who comes from a ghanaian royal line.

The question then becomes are these people REALLY more privileged than a poor working class male who struggles to educate himself?

The answer is commonly that the underprivileged person is the one that appears privileged being a white male.

You cannot judge someone on their appearance or life experiences or status per se, also disencouraging people to participate in society is wrong.

this is why privilege checking is bad.

They're not conservatives because conservatives don't own a monopoly on being authoritarian assholes who insist on pushing stifling agendas.

I'm a traditionally leftwing person myself, but there's no way to excuse or obfuscate the fact that SJWism is modern leftwing authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is a potential danger of any idea or prevailing political consensus that enjoys a position of power or majority. In the past that's been all sorts of ideologies, some of which are absolutely antithetical to each other, but that doesn't make them immune to the same trends. Who knows, in 15-20 years the Anti-SJW attitudes you see now will be the weapon and tool of powerful entities to control the masses.

Fundies and SJWs want to ban porn for different reasons, hence the different labels, but that doesn't change the outcome or the backlash to their methods or bullshit ideologies. They share many backwards ideas, hence the term "Regressive Left," but it's important to realize that they are to the left. They're not conservatives just for being regressive.

[spoiler]it did in the 90's[/spoiler]

>the betterment of society and the uplifting of people of colour and women amongst other oppressed groups is a genuine liberation.

I'm not convinced. Granted I agree people with disadvantages deserve an equal footing with everyone else, but the very concept of "people of color," and "women's liberation," are already othering ideas that have an "Us VS Them," built into the foundation. It treats everyone as a representative of their immutable qualities instead of individuals and you touched on a prime example of such.

Frankly, I'm not that convinced the method is really salvageable and the corruption of it to the ends SJWs take it was noted long before centrists and moderates started realizing the apprehensions to the ideas themselves were not so incorrect.

It's like the communist doctrine that stresses the struggle of the proletariat and the need for liberation. When it's not empty ideologues it almost always leads to practical chaos, strife and bloodshed. It's not that I don't care about class struggle and inequality, it's just that my experiences have made me wary of the entire method they use for addressing that problem and that opinion remains the same for the purveyors of Social Justice.