We keep trying to find the next King Sejong to come save us. And yet, we get presidential candidates being dragged down by shady family members. Korea needs to stop treating its presidents like they're kings and institute firewalls. We're not electing royal families. But as long as they get that level of power for five years, then it actually is fair game to put their families under a microscope. And OMG look at all the stuff that comes out.

South Korean voters increasingly don't like any of the candidates for the 2022 presidential election. Do they want a conservative front-runner who has a wife who was accused of building her academic career on lies? Or do they want a liberal whose son recently was exposed for bragging on online gambling forums? Pretty much neither because not only does a candidate need to be perfect in South Korea their families do too. Why? Because the seat is more like a throne with the power to match. The family that occupies the Blue House for five years can profit themselves immensely and veer the country off course for their own narrow self-interest with the rest of us living with the scars for life.

However, why not fix the system to stop rule by modern kingship? It is a modern democracy after all. Then we would have less pressure on finding the perfect candidate to save us and offer us utopia. But in the meantime, let's spill the tea in the latest Shade Report.

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