South Korea President Impeached

[Anduril]

Guess this was lost in the middle of the game. Huge news for the country as its been a long process (6 months of peaceful protest IIRC)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/w...orea.html?_r=0

Some background context for those that might not be aware of what was going on.
https://askakorean.blogspot.ca/2016/...-geun-hye.html

[chemgear]

South Korea is amazingly corrupt for a relatively progressive country.

In particular, the bat#### crazy stuff that Samsung (and the family that runs it) gets away with kinda horrifying.

Nepotism, fraud, corruption, destroying evidence, bribery. Getting indicted, tried and convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion, then going to jail. But just for a short while, then he bribes even more people to get out of jail and for multiple pardons.

And that was just the Lee Kun-Hee. Now Lee Jae-yong is next up to bat.

[puffnstuff]

US next?

[sharkov]

South Korea is the Nigeria of asia. (Not to insult Nigeria in any way)What did you expect?

[Locke]

If he'd been in North Korea it could have been a lot worse.

Plenty of dumpsters....

[Machiavelli]

Originally Posted by sharkov

South Korea is the Nigeria of asia. (Not to insult Nigeria in any way)What did you expect?

Go ahead and insult Nigeria, who have had some of the most corrupt politicians on the planet. Terrible history of greed and exploitation.

[jeffman]

Could nk use this instability to launch a giant attack with millions of casualties?

[nik-]

No.

[CaptainCrunch]

No but you can bet that they're involved in riling up the protesters.