that was weird, right?
Politicians in South Korea kill themselves or get thrown in prison all the time. In some ways it’s a very healthy society.
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/
Don't remember that one, but the Church of Eternal Life scandal thing was pretty wild.