No matter what nation you live in , you ’ve in all probability asked yourself : Who’sreallyin consign here ? There have been stack of creature governments throughout history to do it that they can happen anywhere . In South Korea , this suspiciousness became all too real , and lead to a dirt that sway the nation in 2016 and bring down former - President Park Geun - hye in a detainment center on charge of bribery and abuse of power .
What really happen ? heed to this episode of stuff and nonsense They Do n’t Want You To Know as Ben Bowlin , Matt Frederick and Noel Brown attempt to respond : Did a cult endeavor to go South Korea ?
Former South Korean President Park Guen - hye has had in interesting life : Her sire , President Park Chung - hee , gained big businessman in 1961after amilitary coup , but then resolve that South Korea should be a democracy . His married woman was assassinated in 1974 by a North Korean sympathiser , and Guen - hye simulate the tariff of the first lady at the age of 22 . Five class later , her beginner was assassinated in 1979 by his own chief of intelligence . It was n’t aboutNorth Koreathis time , however ; the head of the Korean CIA dash Chung - hee because he was afraid Chung - hee was being work by the magnetic religious leader Choi Tae - min .
After her mother ’s last in 1974 , Guen - hye had also become close to Tae - min , who founded the Church of Eternal Life , a sort of intermixture of Christianity and Buddhism . Of of course , Tae - min considered himself the " future Buddha " that could help his member bump salvation and ageless biography . A former policeman , Tae - min oft change his name , married six times and used his Rasputin - alike kinship with Guen - hye to collect politics payoff while her father was president .
Tae - min is aver to havecontrolled Guen - hye ’s body and soul , promising he could communicate with her deceased female parent via his dreams . Tae - min ’s daughter , Choi Soon - sil , also claimed to be able-bodied to communicate with Guen - hye ’s late mother . Soon - sil , who was a close confidante to Guen - hye , eventually became the leader of the Church of Eternal Life after Tae - min ’s death in 1994 .
Four days later , Guen - hye come back to politics and less than a year later she was elected president of South Korea in 2012 . Andit seemsher friend Soon - sil rent over the persona her father had played in Guen - hye ’s life : main influencer .
And influence she did : Soon - sil apparently dictated what dress Guen - hye would wear , down to what colors on what day . And despite have no protection clearance or holding a position in the administration , before long - sil edited many of Guen - hye ’s speeches , influencing South Korea ’s public policy . before long - sil also used her connections with Guen - hye to create twononprofitfoundations that took innearly $ 70 millionin corporate donations , allegedly for her own personal gain . presently - sil also is charge of using her influence over Guen - hye to get champion and associates government jobs .
Guen - hye ’s commendation military rank fell to undivided digit once South Korean citizen discovered Soon - sil was edit out speeches , and Guen - hye wasultimately impeachedand is ontrial for corruption . She maintains that Soon - sil is just a friend she relied on too much , but that otherwise , nothing out or keeping occurred .
Was this a case of a president incline too much on her ally for support and guidance ? Or was Guen - hye really under the pollex of a religious drawing card bent on South Korean domination ? And what does equestrian dressage have to do with it ? To chance out all of this and more , you ’ll have tolisten to the podcast .
