The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over PizzaGate and it starts to get close. Besides the actual corruption mentioned in the article, there are credible reports swirling of a "8 Goddesses" cabal and various occult practices.
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-irrational-downfa...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915/...
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/76...
https://medium.com/@thepenningtonlens/the-south-korean-puppe...