Speaking about scandal from this ousted SK president, one of the biggest castrophes in recent history happened under her, when a sinking ship killed hundreds of people, most of the high school students. Most people who survived were students who didn't listen to the crew members. The crew members left the passengers in the cabin and left before the ship sank.
Pretty hard not to see some parallel between that tragedy and the one we are living through now. I lived in Korea for three years. I've been in Japan a quarter of my life. It's interesting to see the approach here, there and in the west.
If there is anything we can take from this event and that event, pretty well any event. It is this: We are on our own and, whether the captain is asleep at the wheel or directing the ship at the rocks by some command from on high, it's better that we accept it and salvage what we can. The horror is only just beginning.
I went white water rafting in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the mid-80s and the guide told us that when the boat flips, we were to "Actively Save Yourself".
you also mentioned about the cult the the former SK president was associated with. I read this via Taiwanese news source (not the most trustworthy) about a Korean conspiracy: The sinking was pre-planned and it was a sacrifice to bring her deceased father back to life. I can't read Korean so I don't know if such conspiracy actually exists, but a few years later, a documentary film on Sewol provided more disturbing evidence inexplicable to the logically minded.
The older I get, the more I see that most people who get taken in by cults at a young age become brainwashed to a level of the hashhashim or thereabouts. They're willing to do anything their masters bid them. That probably sounds wacky to a lot of people, but we're seeing elements of it hit the surface all over the world. It no longer looks like a laughing matter from where I'm sitting.
I don't have the old bookmarks for when I was following this story but I can give you the gist of it. The ship was owned through intermediaries like his sons by the leader of a church group named Yoo Byung-eun. His church had ties to a previous group suicide cult incident but he denied any involvement. Due to previous convictions (fraud I believe), he was barred from ownership of the church operated businesses (of which there are many.)
The Sewol ferry had an additional deck added, which was then filled with the art of the church leader under his artist name Ahae. It seems they were bought or leased under fraudulently high valuations as a way to transfer funds to Yoo Byung-eun; however, the additional of a deck made the ship unseaworthy. The plans were approved by a corrupt regulatory authority that later was entirely dissolved and reformed. Also, it would have been difficult for a company filled with church member employees to question ideas they thought were dangerous when the ideas came from the leadership of their church.
Some time after the ship sank, he went into hiding and was later found dead in a field. Park Geun-hye was blamed for not being available quickly during the response to the distress calls from the ship and other problems related to how the response was handled.
"The Central Clinical Committee, which consists of the attending physicians of domestic COVID-19 confirmed patients, announced on the 21st that they had agreed to recommend remdesivir treatment for severe COVID-19 patients who need oxygen therapy as clinical research has been accumulated.
Remdesivir, an antiviral drug developed by Gilead Sciences for the treatment of Ebola, has been confirmed to be effective in treating COVID-19, and has been approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has approved special imports by deciding to use it for the treatment of COVID-19 in Korea.
On the other hand, the antimalarial drugs 'chloroquine' and 'hydroxychloroquine' were no longer recommended."
HQC @ a few dollars a dose and effective, or Remdesivir @ $2600 for a 5-day course, which is exceedingly destructive to the kidneys, and possibly hastens death more than prevents it? Well, see, a lot of people have to die to justify the gene treatments, right? Might as well make a shit-ton of money too. Literally trillions of dollars in mRNA gene treatments await. Which would be in keeping with the policies of all the "free" countries, policies that are deadlier than the virus.
If they can get way with making money killing people, sex-cults practicing pedophilia should be no surprise.
I don't think it is fair to credit anything Park Geun-hye did for the rise of K-Pop. K-pop goes back much farther and owes a lot of its popularity to the 'Hallyu' [Korean wave] era popularity of Korean dramas like Winter Sonata (2002).
Of course, Korean cultural exports have been sponsored by government programs, for instance there was a longstanding requirement to show a certain percentage of domestic movies in Korean movie theaters that acted as a government subsidy to domestic movie production. In that sense, it is fair to say that the government supported K-Pop just like they got umpteen Korean historical sites and concepts entered as UNESCO heritage sites or how the wikipedia pages for Korean cultural topics are often surprisingly detailed and well written in English. But that is all generic Korean culture promotion and not specific to any single president.
On the other hand, Park Geun-hye supposedly kept a blacklist of people who were NOT to receive government arts subsidies.
You're right that K-Pop goes back further. It was also started in the intelligence agencies. I know a lot more on the topic than I'm choosing to write about more the moment, out of simplicity. I could make that story its own article series, but I doubt that I will. Too many higher priorities.
We're in the process of putting new information in the hands of some senators. I signed an affidavit. I will be able to talk about it at least some, soon.
Thanks. I know you've been super busy. If there is ever something I can do to help things along, let me know. Perhaps some editing of articles? BTW, I've made a lot of progress with my prepper location. Feel free to call or email donrosenberg@gmail 704-609-1223 any time you need me.
So the plan is: go home and ride it out with no early treatment? Sounds like the US. Do Koreans get to go to ER when pulse ox tanks? Or are they told to tough that out too?
And contract tracing might be nice to have, e.g., for vaccine or mask contracts (the latter having been quite lucrative for some politicians here in Germany), but I guess here you are talking about contact tracing.
Now I had time to look at the links for pedo in K-pop.
First one is IU. IU wrote a song with lyrics that mention a character from some literature who is a young boy (iirc 9yo). The lyrics come across as sexual-- i.e. she asks Zeze to climb up her tree, etc. Not a great idea. She apologized and said she shouldn't have done it. The song is pretty good though aside from the poorly chosen reference:
The second is EXO member. Not sure what he was accused of since it isn't in the article, but boy band members probably have underage girls throwing themselves on them. Have you ever read about the Beatles or other bands of that era? Its pretty gross but its not some sort of organized pedo ring.
Third is some Korean feminist accusing K-pop of being misogynist. Probably happens on every day ending in y.
If you want to find K-pop scandals, the more likely place is low-tier production companies. They probably treat the trainees and girls pretty bad. The problem is that they are forced to sign contracts indebting them for their training period almost like indentured servants. That prevents members or ex-members from speaking openly about what happens since they could be suddenly thrown into debt by breach of contract, which means there is a dearth of evidence. More often members just leave suddenly. There isn't a union or any other organized group to help entertainers push back against exploitive contracts unfortunately and there definitely should be. I imagine that the production companies bosses entertain politicians and prosecutors as some seemingly credible allegations tend to go nowhere. There were some accusations involving high ranking officials around the time of the Seungri scandal that got dismissed for lack of evidence despite there being grainy video but it was an adult woman involved.
the NPR article you cite as evidence that K-Pop was "engineered by South Korean intelligence as a controlled cultural export" shows how the Ministry of Culture cultivated it. Do you have better evidence (or, at least, evidence that the MiniCult follows orders/is directed by the KCIA)?
Years ago when I learned about the KCIA's involvement (and the CIA's), I was not the assiduous note taker than I am today. In fact, losing track of such information at a time when the search engines started actively hiding it is part of the reason I now produce several thousand pages of writing and notes a year.
Great posting. Thanks. If you care about nits, I had to reread this sentence 3 or 4 times before I made sense of it, "after her mother was assassinated by feeding her a story"
Thank you. I don't mind the nits. I write too quickly and with too little review. I hope to have an editor one day. Maybe one day I'll have a subscriber base larger enough for that.
All we ever needed to do was listen to the doctors who were successful treating covid: Drs. Zelenko, Fareed, Tyson, and several others.
HCQ (with zinc) works. Period. It always has.
Dr. Tyson says Ivermectin also works, and I believe him. It has been “divide and conquer” since day 1. As soon as HCQ was successfully demonized, the bad guys went after IVM and prevented Ivermectin from being prescribed too.
To the honest and smart skeptics of HCQ and IVM (like Alex Berenson and Luigi Warren), I ask: if someone were designing (and testing) a virus as a bioweapon, wouldn’t they also want to make it treatable by a safe and effective antidote?
Speaking about scandal from this ousted SK president, one of the biggest castrophes in recent history happened under her, when a sinking ship killed hundreds of people, most of the high school students. Most people who survived were students who didn't listen to the crew members. The crew members left the passengers in the cabin and left before the ship sank.
I recall getting the briefest glimpse of this story. Can you share your best source?
Found this CNN link from Wikipedia, which says those who disobeyed the order to stay in the cabin were rescued. https://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/16/world/asia/south-korea-sinking-ship-students/
Pretty hard not to see some parallel between that tragedy and the one we are living through now. I lived in Korea for three years. I've been in Japan a quarter of my life. It's interesting to see the approach here, there and in the west.
If there is anything we can take from this event and that event, pretty well any event. It is this: We are on our own and, whether the captain is asleep at the wheel or directing the ship at the rocks by some command from on high, it's better that we accept it and salvage what we can. The horror is only just beginning.
I went white water rafting in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the mid-80s and the guide told us that when the boat flips, we were to "Actively Save Yourself".
Words to live by, regardless the situation.
And I would say help each other, if it finally hits the fan.
So horribly tragic.
you also mentioned about the cult the the former SK president was associated with. I read this via Taiwanese news source (not the most trustworthy) about a Korean conspiracy: The sinking was pre-planned and it was a sacrifice to bring her deceased father back to life. I can't read Korean so I don't know if such conspiracy actually exists, but a few years later, a documentary film on Sewol provided more disturbing evidence inexplicable to the logically minded.
The older I get, the more I see that most people who get taken in by cults at a young age become brainwashed to a level of the hashhashim or thereabouts. They're willing to do anything their masters bid them. That probably sounds wacky to a lot of people, but we're seeing elements of it hit the surface all over the world. It no longer looks like a laughing matter from where I'm sitting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150404225612/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32153772
https://web.archive.org/web/20140501223222/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/01/south-korea-ferry-student-cellphone-video/8558607/
I don't have the old bookmarks for when I was following this story but I can give you the gist of it. The ship was owned through intermediaries like his sons by the leader of a church group named Yoo Byung-eun. His church had ties to a previous group suicide cult incident but he denied any involvement. Due to previous convictions (fraud I believe), he was barred from ownership of the church operated businesses (of which there are many.)
The Sewol ferry had an additional deck added, which was then filled with the art of the church leader under his artist name Ahae. It seems they were bought or leased under fraudulently high valuations as a way to transfer funds to Yoo Byung-eun; however, the additional of a deck made the ship unseaworthy. The plans were approved by a corrupt regulatory authority that later was entirely dissolved and reformed. Also, it would have been difficult for a company filled with church member employees to question ideas they thought were dangerous when the ideas came from the leadership of their church.
Some time after the ship sank, he went into hiding and was later found dead in a field. Park Geun-hye was blamed for not being available quickly during the response to the distress calls from the ship and other problems related to how the response was handled.
Who is responsible for the halt in early treatment ? South Korea will start jabbing 5-11 end of this month.
It was always a recommendation, not a firm policy. Then it was memory holed.
Translation from the Korean website:
"The Central Clinical Committee, which consists of the attending physicians of domestic COVID-19 confirmed patients, announced on the 21st that they had agreed to recommend remdesivir treatment for severe COVID-19 patients who need oxygen therapy as clinical research has been accumulated.
Remdesivir, an antiviral drug developed by Gilead Sciences for the treatment of Ebola, has been confirmed to be effective in treating COVID-19, and has been approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has approved special imports by deciding to use it for the treatment of COVID-19 in Korea.
On the other hand, the antimalarial drugs 'chloroquine' and 'hydroxychloroquine' were no longer recommended."
Crimes against humanity
HQC @ a few dollars a dose and effective, or Remdesivir @ $2600 for a 5-day course, which is exceedingly destructive to the kidneys, and possibly hastens death more than prevents it? Well, see, a lot of people have to die to justify the gene treatments, right? Might as well make a shit-ton of money too. Literally trillions of dollars in mRNA gene treatments await. Which would be in keeping with the policies of all the "free" countries, policies that are deadlier than the virus.
If they can get way with making money killing people, sex-cults practicing pedophilia should be no surprise.
I don't think it is fair to credit anything Park Geun-hye did for the rise of K-Pop. K-pop goes back much farther and owes a lot of its popularity to the 'Hallyu' [Korean wave] era popularity of Korean dramas like Winter Sonata (2002).
Of course, Korean cultural exports have been sponsored by government programs, for instance there was a longstanding requirement to show a certain percentage of domestic movies in Korean movie theaters that acted as a government subsidy to domestic movie production. In that sense, it is fair to say that the government supported K-Pop just like they got umpteen Korean historical sites and concepts entered as UNESCO heritage sites or how the wikipedia pages for Korean cultural topics are often surprisingly detailed and well written in English. But that is all generic Korean culture promotion and not specific to any single president.
On the other hand, Park Geun-hye supposedly kept a blacklist of people who were NOT to receive government arts subsidies.
You're right that K-Pop goes back further. It was also started in the intelligence agencies. I know a lot more on the topic than I'm choosing to write about more the moment, out of simplicity. I could make that story its own article series, but I doubt that I will. Too many higher priorities.
Matthew, are you all looking into the DOD database? I saw this story. https://www.theepochtimes.com/data-reveal-disturbing-trend-from-covid-jab_4348749.html Jack Gleason. Feel free to contact me directly by email on some other issues.
We're in the process of putting new information in the hands of some senators. I signed an affidavit. I will be able to talk about it at least some, soon.
Thanks. I know you've been super busy. If there is ever something I can do to help things along, let me know. Perhaps some editing of articles? BTW, I've made a lot of progress with my prepper location. Feel free to call or email donrosenberg@gmail 704-609-1223 any time you need me.
So the plan is: go home and ride it out with no early treatment? Sounds like the US. Do Koreans get to go to ER when pulse ox tanks? Or are they told to tough that out too?
It's Park Geun-hye.
That may be me typing by habit. Thank you for the correction.
And contract tracing might be nice to have, e.g., for vaccine or mask contracts (the latter having been quite lucrative for some politicians here in Germany), but I guess here you are talking about contact tracing.
Ha ha!
“you stupid Westerner”
South Korea is fascinating. I used to teach many international college students from there.
Great piece, thank you.
Now I had time to look at the links for pedo in K-pop.
First one is IU. IU wrote a song with lyrics that mention a character from some literature who is a young boy (iirc 9yo). The lyrics come across as sexual-- i.e. she asks Zeze to climb up her tree, etc. Not a great idea. She apologized and said she shouldn't have done it. The song is pretty good though aside from the poorly chosen reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRs5hJuh98
lyrics: https://colorcodedlyrics.com/2016/11/11/iu-zeze-2/
The second is EXO member. Not sure what he was accused of since it isn't in the article, but boy band members probably have underage girls throwing themselves on them. Have you ever read about the Beatles or other bands of that era? Its pretty gross but its not some sort of organized pedo ring.
Third is some Korean feminist accusing K-pop of being misogynist. Probably happens on every day ending in y.
If you want to find K-pop scandals, the more likely place is low-tier production companies. They probably treat the trainees and girls pretty bad. The problem is that they are forced to sign contracts indebting them for their training period almost like indentured servants. That prevents members or ex-members from speaking openly about what happens since they could be suddenly thrown into debt by breach of contract, which means there is a dearth of evidence. More often members just leave suddenly. There isn't a union or any other organized group to help entertainers push back against exploitive contracts unfortunately and there definitely should be. I imagine that the production companies bosses entertain politicians and prosecutors as some seemingly credible allegations tend to go nowhere. There were some accusations involving high ranking officials around the time of the Seungri scandal that got dismissed for lack of evidence despite there being grainy video but it was an adult woman involved.
I don't want to go down a deep road on this topic, but I have a lot more information. It's just not worth the time given my priorities at the moment.
South Korea has the world's oldest age of consent. To prevent K-Pop stars from getting taken advantage of.
the NPR article you cite as evidence that K-Pop was "engineered by South Korean intelligence as a controlled cultural export" shows how the Ministry of Culture cultivated it. Do you have better evidence (or, at least, evidence that the MiniCult follows orders/is directed by the KCIA)?
Years ago when I learned about the KCIA's involvement (and the CIA's), I was not the assiduous note taker than I am today. In fact, losing track of such information at a time when the search engines started actively hiding it is part of the reason I now produce several thousand pages of writing and notes a year.
I don't doubt it's true. I am familiar with the US CIA's dabbling in culture during the Cold War and through Hollywood today.
There's something fishy overall about South Korea in terms of cults. It's also where the Moonies come from.
Great posting. Thanks. If you care about nits, I had to reread this sentence 3 or 4 times before I made sense of it, "after her mother was assassinated by feeding her a story"
Thank you. I don't mind the nits. I write too quickly and with too little review. I hope to have an editor one day. Maybe one day I'll have a subscriber base larger enough for that.
All we ever needed to do was listen to the doctors who were successful treating covid: Drs. Zelenko, Fareed, Tyson, and several others.
HCQ (with zinc) works. Period. It always has.
Dr. Tyson says Ivermectin also works, and I believe him. It has been “divide and conquer” since day 1. As soon as HCQ was successfully demonized, the bad guys went after IVM and prevented Ivermectin from being prescribed too.
To the honest and smart skeptics of HCQ and IVM (like Alex Berenson and Luigi Warren), I ask: if someone were designing (and testing) a virus as a bioweapon, wouldn’t they also want to make it treatable by a safe and effective antidote?
I think this vaccine ERASES immunity to the spike protein which is why it wears off so quick. That's how it works here anyway:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00880-0.pdf