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Friday, 6 April 2018
quote [ "A court in Seoul has found former South Korean President Park Geun-hye guilty on a raft of charges in the sprawling corruption case that led to her impeachment.
She has been sentenced to 24 years in prison — effectively a life sentence for the 66-year-old. Park was also fined nearly $17 million." ] from NYT, "Almost all of South Korea’s presidents have seen their reputations tarnished toward the end of their tenure or during their retirement because of corruption scandals involving them, their relatives or aides."
a bit of a test post. Steele- post prep is thoroughly broken for me and fails on multiple pages about this story, including this one.
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steele said @ 4:54pm GMT on 6th Apr
Will look into it. I thought we were good with NPR.
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arrowhen said @ 8:19pm GMT on 6th Apr
[Score:1 Informative]
My last two posts were NPR links and the auto prep thingy worked just fine.
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steele said @ 8:47pm GMT on 6th Apr
[Score:1 Informative]
I'm pretty sure it was a database hiccup. Been happening a lot lately for some reason, but my cache is keeping y'all from seeing it on the main pages.
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damnit said @ 5:29pm GMT on 6th Apr
Wait. So this is normal for South Koreans?
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biblebeltdrunk said @ 5:46pm GMT on 6th Apr
Presidential convictions happened twice in the 90's for presidents, and the prime minister (essentially vice president in the Korean system) resigned as part of a effort to avoid further investigation in to bribery charges.
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HoZay said @ 7:22pm GMT on 6th Apr
It's almost like being governor of Illinois.
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Ussmak said @ 7:43pm GMT on 6th Apr
The general issue corruption and cronyism, yes.
The grooming from birth by a matriarchal cult of ultra-wealthy introverts with some really interesting agendas, not so much. |
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Ussmak said @ 7:40pm GMT on 6th Apr
This story is so much more bizarre than most outlets report on this side of the planet.
Nice to see them convict her. Maybe there's some hope for the species yet. |
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Hugh E. said @ 10:40pm GMT on 6th Apr
Stay tuned to see if Washington can take Shining City Upon A Hill status back from Seoul.
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HoZay said[1] @ 10:25pm GMT on 6th Apr
Kind of related https:Brazil's Lula defies prison order, creating standoff
Well-liked populist former president convicted of corruption, decides not to go to jail. |
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