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Who would have thought that buying horses for president's best friend's daughter[1] would be Samsung's ruler's undoing...

(Wow, that's a lot of "'s"'s...)

[1] For those who don't follow South Korean news closely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Yoo-ra

She's currently in a jail in Denmark, fighting extradition requested by Korean prosecutors. In addition to tripping Lee, she also got multiple professors in Ewha Womans University arrested for corruption. (Yay?)

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To be fair, her dad was an infamous "shaman-esque pseudo-Christian cult leader" who was the mentor to the former President and used his friendship to solicit bribes.

And her and her mother are accused of laundering $1 billion. At only 20 years old, it'd be fascinating to hear her philosophy/perception of business and life.

Well, we kind of know Chung's philosophy on business and life. A 2014 Facebook posting of hers was "discovered" after she got infamous, and it was a goldmine:

> 능력없으면 니네부몰원망해 (...) 돈도 실력이야

(If you aren't capable, resent your parents. Money is ability.)

On one hand, it's a bit unfair to dig FB postings of clueless youngsters. On the other hand... wow.

Accurate perception of our globalized economic/political system, I'd say. If there's a 'wow' in here, it's 'wow, is this the best civilization can do in 2017?'. Seems… sub-optimal.

Look to Scandinavia; it's not our best.

I despair of finding ways to reach there, however.

Really nothing fascinating to it. Very generic privileged and spoiled child (as my sibling poster pointed out), and none too bright. Look at the sheer amount of extra-legal maneuvering by the mother to get her into a decent college.

Not directly relating to her - but the book "Thich face, Black heart" comes to mind when thinking of "hard"/ruthless business/life philosophies from the Asian region. Depending on how you interpret the advice of course.

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