If you recall my post from a couple years ago that I'm sure you read with rapturous attention, there's a lot of bizarre culture war type stuff that goes on in Korea around the presidential candidates' wives (or in the case of Park Geun-Hye, when a woman dared to run, herself). The current first lady hasn't done herself any favors by being a total fricking weirdo who believes she has magic shaman powers to predict the future.
The leftoid opposition has been highly frustrated though at not catching her doing anything illegal. Most presidents of South Korea in this century have ended up in prison or jumping off a cliff to avoid it, and the next best thing is to put their family there. But while they can make some very cutting remarks about (not even exaggerating) her being a childless cat lady (they also did this to Park Geun-Hye) that unfortunately is not illegal yet. So some incident happened where, as I understand it, she was visiting a Korean-American church and a stranger walks up and hands her a $2000 LV handbag and they catch it on video. You might think that since the leftoid opposition leader was definitely involved in an $800 million real estate fraud scheme that this wouldn't be such a big deal, but half the country went apeshit over it. A bunch of investigations were launched against her, but the prosecutors decided not to file charges.
LV handbag selling for $3,300.
Luxury apartments in Seoul. I think I'd rather have one of these myself.
Now the prosecutors are going after the leftoid's wife because she charged a couple dinners on the government credit card or something. (Something that I'm sure is unheard of in Korea. ) This is pretty obviously retaliation because current rightoid president got where he is today by being head of the very powerful prosecutors' office.
So don't worry, Koreans aren't just tearing their country apart over the incels vs. women's lib psychos issue, they have a lot of other really dumb shit to get emotional about.
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