Letter from Seoul - 18
“Lust for power is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by crazy desire
I fell into a ring of fire.”
Headlines from The Guardian ...
“A motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon fails after vote boycott
The dramatic walkout by members of Yoon Suk Yeol’s party leads assembly speaker to declare vote invalid”.
When an American man thinks with the wrong head and betrays his wife or girlfriend with another woman, there is always a price to pay. Even after heartfelt apologies, and very expensive chocolate - the man must still eat a mile of shit every day for a year.
“Which way to Golgotha?”
If a woman is unfaithful and lets another man do push-ups between her moist thighs, she can always use the God excuse, like Mary did when Joseph was pounding nails instead of his wife.
Yet if you are a man who is unfaithful to his country and betrays the voters, how does he make amends?
It is Saturday evening here in the Orient. The National Assembly should be meeting now to try and determine what to do about President Yoon.
I returned to the National Assembly area around 11 a.m. this morning, because I sensed there would be far more people there on a weekend, then a few days ago. I’m sure there were some gathertings if not demonstrations downtown at Gwanghwamun Square. But it made more sense to to retrn to the National Assembly ... and I was right. I have never seen so many police busses assembled in any one area as I did tofay; two dozen, easily.
By the time I returned home – 90-minutes later, Yoon had made a two-minute appearance on network TV to “apologize” for his actions earlier in the week, for the damage he’s caused to the country’s reputation, and vowed to “never do this again.”
This is the stock response offered when we’ve been unfaithful to our loved one: whether it’s our spouse, or our country.
I have not seen the TV clip, but I doubt that Yoon had a big box of chocolate to offer the country for being a fuck up.
Anyone with a cellphone can be alerted by the government of severe weather conditions, warnings about high volume traffic in certain areas. It’s a good system. Around 4 p.m. an alert was issued to avoid driving along the main street of Yeouido, which is to say the National Assembly because so many people were pouring into the area.
I took a photo of two males asleep on the sidewalk near the National Assembly, but everything about them suggested they had likely been there for a quite a while and were exhausted. A woman nearby approached me and ... in limited English, told me the men were her husband and son – and they had camped on the sidewalk overnight. If they were both college-age and outside a venue for a K-Pop concert, I would not be surprised. But this was out of conern for what may happen to their country.
Convicted Felon-in-Chief Donald Trump is really the International Poster Boy for “Fuck you very much.” Trump and his sewer clown posse is giving weak leaders inspiration to make power grabs because: “fuck you; that’s why.”
If Yoon had any honor left, he’d go for that lonely walk into the woods and off himself.
[Old Delhi, Varanasi and Kolkata]