How A Puppy Is Linked To Corruption In S.Korea's Government

In 2016, a former national fencer from South Korea grabbed the country’s attention with shocking details of a friendship gone wrong. His expose spelled the end for the most powerful woman in South Korea at the time, the nation’s first female president, Park Geun-hye.

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[Fuzzle]

People were also pissed at her abject failure at handling the ferry sinking that drowned 300 some high school students.

[traphimawari]

Disappointed that throughout the entire video literally not a single clip or even an image of said puppy is presented

[DonkeyRhubarb]

Living in Korea through this was a powerful time. Seeing so many people come together to protest, and so peacefully was a truly amazing thing to see here.

[stephanieclark]

The public was angry at her corruption, but the Sewol tragedy really united the nation against her.

I vividly remember thr night she was elected. I was in Gwangju and it felt like the whole city was weeping while others in Seoul were rejoicing.

The puppy feature is cute and all, but the story is way more complicated and nuanced that this.

[RikodiusRex]

Puppies should always be supervised when they play golf at home alone. When that puppy said "don't you have some errands to run?" That was an obvious red flag that puppy wanted to be left alone to play golf. This is extremely irresponsible to let puppies play golf unsupervised. I don't blame the puppy's owner for being upset.

[dwoodpart]

So it all started with "puppygate?"

Ms. Park's handling of the ferry disaster didn't help either.

[napoleonibonaparte]

- Video did not feature much what the title said.
- Video films the narrator too much.
- The narrator films his shots in the Philippines, not Korea.

[vukkumsp]

Corruption is bad, but this reminds that everyone need to choose good friends especially when they are in power so things don't sink over an argument over a puppy.

[XSpImmaLion]

I have to ask this because I'm genuinely curious - has electing the offspring of dictators ever worked out for democracy? I am genuinely curious to know about actual examples worldwide, as I personally don't know any.

See, I'm not saying this out of prejudice or "sins of our fathers" perspective... most of the cases when politicians who are the children of former dictators ends up elected it always turns out that they lived in such a completely different reality compared to the population that it always ends up in corruption, a step backwards from democracy back into dictatorship, or a combination of both. The latter is the most likely scenario.

To make things worse, a strict military family also not uncommonly means children who grew up in very strict, very do as I say not as I do, very controlling households... which heightens the chances of people being brainwashed and controlled by things such as cults, religious figures, etc. Or mirroring the behavior of their parents being as controlling as their parents.

There is a specific mix of problems that often come in military households/families that puts both strong intolerance towards diverse opinions and complete inadmission of mistakes - to the point of the person never admitting personal errors and always attributing them to others -, together with the potential to form one or multiple relationships based mostly on faith, loyalty and fanatism instead of any real measure of evaluation and trust.

It's an extremely dangerous mix that I've never seen work out in politics. There are likely exceptional cases, but I haven't heard of them. It seems like you always end up with worst outcomes in cases like that, at least for the population. Of course, it benefits greatly the cronies, the party, the family and friends of those politicians who will be taking bribes, corruption schemes, and reaping the benefits of exploiting public coffers and lobbyists... military dictatorships will always have that crowd that thinks the country was better back then because they weren't in the receiving end of the exploitation and violence practiced by the regime. But overall, it always looks bad for the country.

Just understand - I'm not saying ONLY military related politicians are corrupt, or that military linked politicians are ALWAYS corrupt... obviously, I live in a country with a political system that is so structurally corrupt that no matter the origins of politicians elected there, they always seems to end up in corruption whatever they origins are.
Idealism tied to ignorance is often another source for extreme corruption and moral decay in politics, which is subject for another discussion.
But I'm more focused on thinking about the origins of corruption when it comes to military families.

Surface level, one might think that the discipline and moral teachings in military families could end up in better politics... but to me it almost always seems to end up at the opposite end.

[Mokamusiclab]

This country is ruled by Samsung, Hyundai, Posco, Kakao, Naver, Lotte, SK. There is no political power outside of those ones.

[Patrick-ccqm]

Her downfall wasn't also due these reasons. Is also largely has to with the sinking of the ferry incident along with many other scandals over the years.

[BOMBON]

Amazing, we in the US had a clown promoting his daughter's business, extorting the taxpayers so the secret service and other personnel had to stay at his hotels whenever traveling abroad and not wanting to give up his power when he lost. Doubt he will do any time in prison.
Quite a stark difference.

[kalford]

Wish the Us would hold public officials accountable for corruption like South Korea!

[xolodog]

And our little girl—Tricia, the 6-year-old—named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.

[yuchan]

It means that South Korea's democratic system is very mature and works well. The Park resignation protest was attended by hundreds of thousands of people, but not a single incident of violence occurred, which is highly unusual and shows their high civic consciousness. There are many countries with way worse corruption than in S.Korea, but the people cannot do anything. 😢

[abikuneebus]

Unless Vice has a style guide I’m not aware of it should be “How a Puppy Is Linked to Corruption in S.Korea’s Government”.
Whether you reference AP, Chicago, MLA, or a few obscure style guides I looked at, neither “to” or “in” should be capitalized in a title.
I just wasted 10 minutes of my life writing a comment criticizing the capitalization of a Youtube video title. What the hell is wrong with me?

[LintSplinter]

Damn I thought this was a part 2 to the corrupt politician dog kidnapping anime but it’s just a reupload. L

[iuliaprisecaru]

I can't be the only who thought he meant the dog was the one playing golf.

[MrKushinator]

Why did you word the title like this? Did none of you go to high school or something like that?

[rerobinson]

The puppy is mentioned starting at 5-35.