On October 29 2016 21:55 WhiteDog wrote: Everything is working as intended. Oneofsanto can explain you it's the most efficient way to govern, makes everyone happy in dollar.
actually i trot out the sk chaebols when i want to criticize concentration and lack of competition. contrasting with sk and europe, especially france/italy, the u.s. places a higher value on competition
This is classic Korean law enforcement. Either corrupt or incompetent. They let DUI's off the hook when they cry, will leave you alone if you yell enough and give this corrupt treasonous bitch a day to get her affairs in order because she's "tired from her trip." Whoever rubber stamped that should be in jail alongside her, as well as PGH
No but now they're in an awkward spot because the impeachment process would likely take as long as she's got left in office. Very good chance she'll eventually go to jail eventually (and is somewhat hilariously backtracking on a previous statement where she said she'd cooperate with the investigation).
im surprised this topic has so little discussion on tl. then again, its no war that involves the US so... anyway president park just got impeached an hr ago so things will get interesting. this whole scandal has actually opened up a lot of investigations that target the president which were kinda buried before as well (eg. sewol ferry accident and the president's absence for hours, rumoured to be receiving facial therapies). basically everything citizens can find that showed her absolute incompetence has been brought up again, so if she is formally investigated once more who knows what might come up
On December 09 2016 17:32 evilfatsh1t wrote: im surprised this topic has so little discussion on tl. then again, its no war that involves the US so... anyway president park just got impeached an hr ago so things will get interesting. this whole scandal has actually opened up a lot of investigations that target the president which were kinda buried before as well (eg. sewol ferry accident and the president's absence for hours, rumoured to be receiving facial therapies). basically everything citizens can find that showed her absolute incompetence has been brought up again, so if she is formally investigated once more who knows what might come up
if you can turn it into a feminist issue it'll get some traction else it'll be similar to the greek meltdown: serves them right/it's their fault/they chose their leader and so on.
cant turn it into something that it isnt. you are right though, in that the citizens of korea are absolutely at fault for voting her in largely due to her family background. hopefully this is a massive wake up call to korea. however you cant deny that the scale of this scandal would have been unfathomable to even the strongest opposers of park. western media isnt reporting even half of the rumours/theories/facts that is circulating around korea regarding park. its some real life korean drama shit
doesn't matter if it is or if it isn't, you can easily spin it to look bad on (W-)feminists(do it for them clicks!).
as for those other things, i can't really comment; we had prime ministers and presidents investigated for corruption so i'm missing the leg to stand on here. was it foreseeable? , i don't know; was it preventable?, i can't tell; will be repeated in the future?, probably ...
It's entirely possible that hundreds of millions of USD equivalent was simply siphoned away, and the korean pension lost 300 million usd due to a 10 million usd bribe from samsung. It's actually quite curious that as a rich democracy, the scandal is receiving so little attention in western media. It's not even a question of distance or culture compared with minor scandals in Japan and Australia and Brazil.
It's entirely possible that hundreds of millions of USD equivalent was simply siphoned away, and the korean pension lost 300 million usd due to a 10 million usd bribe from samsung. It's actually quite curious that as a rich democracy, the scandal is receiving so little attention in western media. It's not even a question of distance or culture compared with minor scandals in Japan and Australia and Brazil.
I just read an article in the German "Tagesschau" and then went on my daily TL browse. It's really crazy what was happening there and how little attention it got in Germany. I found like 4 articles on "Tagesschau" over the last four weeks.
The link is actually really insightful for anyone interested in the topic. I went through the whole thing. Really mindblowing how something like this can go unnoticed for so long.
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