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Does anyone know if there is a family or commercial connection between the judge who dismissed Lee's arrest warrant and the Lee family? It's terrible that my mind goes there first, but such is the state of Park's Korea.

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Samsung among many large Korean companies like Hyundai are have large family ties known as Chaebols https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

Being Chaebol doesn't stop them from getting arrested fortunately:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesasia/2014/04/30/obsessed-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/business/international/so...

They get arrested and even convicted, but then almost immediately pardoned. Only in very few cases do the convictions and sentences actually stand. Mostly they just go back to business.

The judge is known to have received scholarship from Samsung in the old days.

Does anyone know if there is a family or commercial connection between the prosecutor who asks for Lee's arrest warrant and the competitors to Lee family? It's terrible that my mind goes there first, but such is the state of Park's Korea.

Why is this reply so similar to the one above? How long have the bots been on HN?

If you pay attention to the differences you see it as a satirical remark on the sloppy thinking, not a bot. A long tradition on HN.

All of Lee's competitors are inheritors of similarly structured "chaebol" companies. If you think they have any interest in making the public opinion more accepting of chaebol's family members going to prison for breaking laws, you haven't been paying attention.

I have to wonder exactly what you think is "the state of Park's Korea," or if you just thought copying that phrase was funny.

To be honest, it is more likely that the prosecutor is the one who has ulterior motives, such as trying to get revenge on behalf of one of the prosecutor's friends/family. Or even just for personal career advancement.

> it is more likely that the prosecutor is the one who has ulterior motives

I could see equally likely, but more? Why more?

We recently saw a corruption scandal, which went through to indictment, against another Korean family [1]. Park, to whom Lee has been connected, has already been impeached [2]. The preponderance of evidence I've seen favours the prosecution.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/business/international...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/korea-s-p...

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