In 2016, President Park's close associate (the daughter of a shaman, who was a friend to President Park's father, also another president of South Korea) was discovered to have been carrying out a shadow presidency, where she was making an enormous number of decisions ranging from major government contracts to what President Park wore for a press conference. This was the end of a long line of protests against her, including the Sewol Ferry protest.
Cite as
Anonymous, "NYTimes - 2016 Calls for Impeachment Against Park Geun Hye ", contributed by Danielle Yorleny Tassara, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 13 December 2019, accessed 5 February 2025. http://centerforethnography.org/content/nytimes-2016-calls-impeachment-against-park-geun-hye
Critical Commentary
In 2016, President Park's close associate (the daughter of a shaman, who was a friend to President Park's father, also another president of South Korea) was discovered to have been carrying out a shadow presidency, where she was making an enormous number of decisions ranging from major government contracts to what President Park wore for a press conference. This was the end of a long line of protests against her, including the Sewol Ferry protest.