South Korea's "Dior Scandal": First Lady being called Marie Antoinette | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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- South Korea's "Dior Scandal": First Lady being called Marie Antoinette | Vantage with Palki Sharma
South Korea's First Lady Kim Keon Hee is in hot water over a lady Dior bag she received as a gift in 2022. A hidden camera was used to secretly record the transaction. It is now making headlines in South Korea, putting President Yoon Suk Yeol in an awkward position. His party members have started to turn on him, and one has even compared the First Lady to French Queen Marie Antoinette. The infighting threatens to tear the President's party apart just months ahead of South Korea's Legislative election. Palki Sharma tells you more.
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A church pastor buys a USD2250 handbag as a gift for someone ? Surely that is another scandal in itself - what spiritual goal can a handbag help to achieve?
Church does spiritualism 😅 since when? 😅
South Korea has some of the largest (by membership) Pentecostal churches it he world. Yoido Full Gospel Church has 400,000+ members and holds more than 5 services on Sundays. Heads of these mega churches can be worth millions.
.....and why did he record the whole thing? I doubt he's an actual pastor & if I'm correct that raises questions about security/vetting
American christian conversion factory has destroyed South Korea.
Most pastors are hypocrites so don’t give them your money bwahaha
Marie Antoinette never said „let them eat cake“..that was propaganda. I thought this is well known by now😮
Just watch a Life Story of her yesterday.i feel so sorry for her ending.my ex and present Husband are Both Austrian.i understand why they never visited france in their while Life.Becouse she is an Austria princess Turn Queen of france
The Family of her husband never accepted her.they call her the Austrian.
Nothing is ever know if you refuse to know.
cake is more expensive than bread anyway..
That is exactly why she was referred to Marie Antoinette. The politicians used the term to defend her not accuse her.
i think she said let them eat pancakes... not cake... or was it dumplings?
She broke the rules, however this is blown out of proportion. There are probably more serious issues than focusing on a handbag that was gifted to her.
She should sell the handbag, donate the proceeds to charity, issue a public apology and move on to the next scandal...
yeah, like ignoring what's going on in the world and making 1980's style cold war speech glorifying Reagan at the democratic congress and president. OR how about giving up all pursuit of weapons of war in face of North Koreans resuming the war?
Exactly!!! There are so many issues of her, major one is stock manipulation!!!!! Her mother also now in prison. Dior scandal is just The tip of the iceberg!!!
@@marih3286I don't get it. What did she do wrong? What's wrong with accepting a gift?
It speaks about the corruption that has been going on in South Korea. For example, when the Itaewon incident happened on Halloween 2022, the politics did nothing for the victims families. A lot of the victims are foreigners and their families had the hardest time to get a proper incident report. One of the victims is actually a Korean-Austrian, who went to the same University as I do now, and when the Korean prime minister visited Vienna, he told the grieving mother: "How can the government know everything?" Bribery is unfortunately a well known practice in S. Korea. That is why a lot of bullying are not being properly taking care of, ending in victims taking their lives. Young teachers are especially at risk in S. Korea because of rich and entitled parents bribing officials. Unfortunately, this country has a very high suicide rate among teachers.
Politicians in the United States takes millions of dollars of gifts all the time. Until someone exposes them. South Korea's Dior Scandal over a $2000 gift is like a drop in bucket for politicians in the US.
Are you bragging about corruption?
LOL Nancy Pelosi has a networth of 115 million while her yearly salary was only 200 thousand
I’m actually confused why this is even a scandal. Many korean girls on the street wear things that are more expensive than this. It’s a bit bizarre.
In fact, there’s a more serious conviction for manipulating stock market. The president is shielding her and she hasn’t been thoroughly officially investigated. Yet. I support the current ruling party, but if she’s really clean I wish she proves this herself.
@@nanakatsuchiya it's not about bragging corruption but the fact that small 💩 are big deal for South Koreans.
If we receive a gift, do we really ask how much did it cost the giver? That's embarrassing, isn't it? With her status, US$2250 isn't that expensive to me. Perhaps, I would be more interested in knowing why the Pastor gave her a gift, why it was secretly filmed and in return, what favor did the first lady extend to the Pastor.
当然要问清楚价格了，她是身份敏感的政府官员，不能随便收礼物。
You don’t ask, you should decline an EXPENSIVE GIFT! She sure know the price of that brand upon seeing it. So she’s guilty bwahaha
By law she is prohibited from accepting any gift more than 1 mil. Won
As the president's spouse, she should at least have declared it as per law. She didn't. Hence the blowback.
I'm guessing the Church was used as a lubricant(as usual) for some other corruption pay off.
you are supposed to decline. Even in normal corporate settings, you cannot accept anything or gifts valued over a certain amount. All politicians are corrupt. It just a way to have advantage over the general populace by setting your future generation.
$2,250 gift ... in India, no one would even bat an eyelid at this so-called "corruption". Here, the corruption amounts are always in millions and billions when top politicians are concerned.
How in US ,or Mexico, both take millions in bribes everytime they posible can
She's not just given bag. She's also accused of making 2.3 billion won from stock manipulation
@@woo752 Using insider info and manipulating stock is crime as S.K is hub for giants like Samsung that would become a serious crime at the end she's a politician's wife so we can't trust non of them let there be investigation
@@sarahpark5766 There is a prosecution opinion that it has earned 2.3 billion won, but no summoning investigation has been conducted. So opposition lawmakers asked for an independent counsel, but the husband, the president, refused it for his wife
but why is a christian pastor buying and giving gifts ?
why is he doing a hit job like this and what are their intentions, is is to remove her husband and get a more favourable president, that should be investigated too
There's no evidence of Marie Antoinette ever saying that.
There is evidence that she didnt
Its a folk legend, it became popular during the French revolution or after that. Like how people in England nicknamed King Canute (kanuute) as King Knut and even made a legend how he was so strict and stupid that he tried to order the ocean to follow his rules on tides and almost drowned
its not appreciated that she was the major political oppositional force to the revolutionaries, her husband was a useless chump and her death was elimination of a serious threat
she didn't say that , but she was a selfish gross person who didn't care about her people. Let's keep it real she lived a life of no worries and let people die from starvation.
@@LindaAllen-zq4yh until the the point they imprisoned the royal family and executed all its members including children
⚠️ from France !
Historians may have searched for the origins of these quotations, but they found no mention of them in any biography of Marie-Antoinette, nor any archive of the Revolution. She was not even accused during her trial, before going to the guillotine. The privileged hypothesis is that of a kind of popular legend, dating from before the arrival of Marie-Antoinette in France, telling the story of a princess who told the poor to eat brioche or even pie crusts.
The first written record of this rumour is found in the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He wrote, in Book VI: "I remembered the worst-case scenario of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who replied: Let them eat brioche!" This book, published posthumously in 1782, was written in 1765, five years before Marie-Antoinette arrived in France.
Thank you!
Brilliant! Thanks.
Thank you. No one cares for the facts anymore.
Never knew that, interesting. Thanks!
@@Elleliza3501 Even in France many people continue to spread this counter-truth, including recently from politicians 🙄
Poor Marie Antoinette 🙏
"Let them eat cake," was a phrase never uttered by Marie Antoinette... The first person to put the specific phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” into print may have been the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In Book VI of Rousseau’s Confessions (written about 1767), he relates a version of the story, attributing the quote to “a great princess.” Although Marie-Antoinette was a princess at the time, she was still a child, so it is unlikely that she was the princess Rousseau had in mind.
The poor standard of reportage from Pakil.
Thank you!!! It pisses me off how they still go with that story!
ty! i was rolling my eyes at this video & was about to comment but then saw your comment. 🙏💚
Yes. There’s no evidence that Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat cake.”
@@AmazinGraceXOXO1 you shouldn't let it get to you. Everyday people are walking around not knowing this. Been that way for centuries. Every second three individuals are born who will not know until they do. Most will go through life never knowing. Does that piss you off? It's just reality. And it will always be that way. I suggest accepting reality and relaxing.
I’m from America, this is comical. Our politicians do a lot worse than this.
That shouldn’t be the normal
Same in U.K.
Americans don't do enough to keep government accountable.
@@lolok1099nobody said it should be normalized, however, that’s the reality.
@@dalama6111stop being divisive, all politicians are crooked
I wish we had such minor scandals as these in my country that involve politicians.
Ikr
This incident is the tip of the iceberg. She did so many illegal things such as stock price manipulation, illegal real estate speculation, bribe on and on
You kidding? Previous president of Korea had the biggest scandal possible - was partially blamed of death of many kids.
This is as much as smoke screen for S Korea’s real issues, which are many, as in any other country.
I was getting ready to say the same thing.
That is entrapment. The guy knew full well what he was doing; his intention and actions are clearly displayed.
이게 함정이라면 미리 메세지 보냈을때 이여자는 거부했어야하고 돌려보냈어야지 아직도 이여잔 디올 가방을 가지고 있다고 !
@christmasmay Yes, I agree the First Lady should have been wise to the rules of being a First Lady and not accepted the bag. However, we don't know the relationship between them; maybe she had no reason to suspect him 🤔
And they edited the video to remove context.
@@christmasmay The problem is that it would be hard to turn down a nice gift from a pastor... Because you may be inclined to assume that they are a good person, that is trying to be nice to you.
The bag is too cheap to be something you'd give to gain any kind of political influence.
If it was worth $100K (USD), there might be some legitimacy to it. But in the context of politics, it's insanely cheap and not going to buy you anything.
Yes blame the woman who wasn't even in charge of the monarchy, and not the generational stupidity of the king louis family.
So no blame on the spoiled brat that wanted to live in luxury the one that didn’t care about the people, no blame on her?
Exactly! a Revolution doesn't start the day people start burning things, but years prior. As if Marie-Antoinette had the power to set all in motion. Louis XIV basically ruined the kingdom with his silly wars but let's blame the woman who came in France as a teen bride.
@@pinchebruha405 She didn't even say that "let them eat cake" quote, she was hated by the French monarchy when she arrived because she was Austrian. She has been extremely slandered and missrepresented. Was she perfect? absolutely not, but she wasn't this heartless spoiled being that she is being made out to be. Funny enough she spent waaaaay less than other monarchs on luxury goods.
@@VErisot I never said she did, it’s a metaphor for her attitude
She helped to reinforce slavery, especially here in America. So her and that family can rot. So this rewriting of history to try to make her seem like some innocent is absolutely ridiculous.
Funny how this old 2022 recording has suddenly come to light in 2024 just before elections.
To bring down a ruling party all it takes was a handbag 🤦🏻♂️
To be honest, this is absolutely ridiculous!! So what if she accepted a gift?? There are far more serious issues that accepting a gift. The question is: Did the pastor give the gift in exchange of something?? If so, what was that something?? Or was it simply a generous gesture?
It is considered a felony for a public servant or their family to.accept gifts.
Yes you don't know how much influence a wife to a president is. It might change the fate of a country.
Y'all dumb af for thinking she would need a bag and exchange favors for it 😂
@@maisondav1dlearning and reading up on this woman...she would
It is bound to happen, as you can see all top brands are making k-pop idols their ambassador bcuz people are crazy about brands in Korea and biggest market for brands , even middle school kids demand their school bag to be branded otherwise they will fell inferior in front of their classmates, it's kind of status symbol 😂
They’re all addicted to surgeries on their face as well bwahaha
Insecurity is their 2nd name. They need brands and plastic surgery to just feel comfortable
@@hersheyssmith2104 so 🥱is that your business?
There are demons energy that live in South Korea. The demons that have very attractive facial features, white skin like paper white and sharpy nose. They want people to be like them. So they posses the minds of South Koreans to have plastic surgery. They are very powerful. If you live there, most likely you will have plastic surgery.
@@adamsaciid4919 teri kyu jali
Dior is rubbing it's hand together with this free advertising!
Fun fact average dior bags are way more expensive than this “wallet on chain”, she actually got a bag that was on the lower end of dior price bracket & got herself entangled in the controversy, makes me feel bad for her, the criticism would have made more sense if it was a birkin or to the least an actual lady Dior bag 😂
It shows how greedy she is!
@@djmeredith6520she is the president's wife ofcourse she is rich and will buy luxury items. Aren't politicians supposed to be rich.
@@dummystephenhawking7124 You missed the point. She can be rich and be a law abiding citizen at the same time. The conflict here is, did she buy with her own money?
@@djmeredith6520 rich people gifting rich people. Many church pastors in America are millionaires and I think one church is very influential in Korea and it's off course rich which would be a matter of concern but these type of corruption exist pretty much everywhere.
And rich people buying something for another rich person in my opinion it is not wrong.
@@djmeredith6520Who cares? You'd do the same if you were in their shoes.
This is nothing compared to what other leaders gifts received
Just ask Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden 😮
It's more that this doesn't even seem like a political gift. Beyond a kind of basic gift someone might give to someone of high stature to get a chance to speak to them.
Which is still awkward. But good consultants charge that much for an hour or two of talking to them also.
Good publicity for Dior!
rich ppl are like "2200, that is cheap, i will buy different colors and have a conversation point"
South Korea is one goofy country living away from reality.
Branded stuff & plastic surgery is what's relevant to them
Exactly
Fr . There're also making other people like them by influence via kpop
@@cookie-hz9fx yeah! You are correct, all kpop look same.
@joohimurmu1585 🤡🤡
As a Korean professor working at a research-focused university in the west once in what I call 'my previous life' I was offered 'tokens of gratitude' from students numerous times. I kindly but vehemently rejected each one of those gifts out of fear that I might 'appear' to be receiving a bribe. And I was not a public servant or in politics. Just a lowly professor.
Interestingly, every single one of those gifts came from Korean students. But come to think of it, there was never any ill-intention on the part of those students. Gifting is omnipresent and a big part of Korean culture. The students were simply very thankful for my teachings and showed me much appreciated respect. I guess I appealed to them in a positive light as a minority Korean teaching and doing research at a highly regarded institution in a western country. In every single one of those cases, the students came to my office with gifts when the semester was already over and the grades had been submitted to the administrators.
If you don’t take them gifts!!!!!!!
@@overwritehoney6524Yeah, grades have been submitted and the semester is over. So, what's the harm?
Interesting how certain thoughts are pervasive in certain cultures. And as a side note one of my college professors openly admitted that while she worked at the local Ivy League college a student came up to her after class and would suck up to her and it worked and she increased his grade…
That said, she was ultimately fired from there university but for a diff reason altogether.
I am South Korean. This first lady has too many issues that merely one bag that is worth $2000 as a bribe is not only a problem. You guys are arguing about how silly this incident is-just one bag- but numerous oitrageous conducts she's been commiting made so many people angry and this incident with the bag exploded their cumulative anger.
Could you give more background ? What else has she done to upset people?
Pls give more background
@@mucyoal , @patrickjohn9765
LOL it is funny that I am explaining this, which is known by all South Koreans. I would gladly write some information for this foreigner friend.
Here are some of the stuff I can just think from the top of my head but there are so many more if I research.
1. She is under strong suspicion that she manipulated stock market and earned 2.3 billion in a very short amount of time with her mother. People who helped her went to jail already but not her, who commanded the actual action and earned money. There are countless evidence.
2. She is under strong suspicion that she made the highway development plan to a different route, that is inefficient, as soon as she became a first lady, without proper discussion among experts including the residents. The reason for that would be if the highway is made in her property, the value of her lands will increase.
3. She is under strong suspicion that she influenced her husband, the president, to make important changes of the country, based on her spiritual leader, who is a "shaman". She acknowleged and her husband acknowledged that they listen to this "shaman" guy who talks all nonsense on a youtube. For example, when her husband became a president, they moved from a Blue House (that is White House in US) to a Department of Military. The Blue House is empty now. This is very odd happening. Since no one can explain why they moved, people assume that this "shaman" guy suggested them to move. This shaman guy says some nonsense on his CZcams channel and the president make orders to follow some of these nonsense orders. For example, When 159 people died from Itaewon by stampede, the country did not put people's picture or name during the funeral. This happened after this shaman guy said, "you should not go to a place where there are names of death people" because you will be hunted by their ghosts or something like that.
My friend, there are probably 10 more things I can write but since this is already a long writing, I will pause here. Please wish for well-being of South Korea. We hate this president and this first lady. (According to this week's Korea Gallup, 31% supports this president and 63% of the population is not supporting this president. Majority of this 31% of the people who support the presidents are 60s or older)
@@mucyoal By the way, the mother and the brother of this first lady are actually in a jail and in charge of scam artists right now.
@@patrickjohn9765 Oh, I just thought of a very interesting fact about this first lady.
During the election, many witnesses revealed themselves that they saw her as a "bar girl" when she was in college. Bar girl does not mean a bartender, it means more like a prostitute in Korean culture.
Since this and other things--like suspicion of manipulating stock market--were getting more and more noisy, she had a press conference and bagged for forgiveness. She promised in front of whole press with near tears that if her husband becomes a president, she will never act as a first lady, but just act like stay-home house-wife for the president. Obviously, she did not keep her promise and acts more authority than her husband right now 🤣
The whole nation is going on America's dooms day milestone 😂
They have become more American than the real ones
S Korea's own Mahua Moitra episode, i guess.
Marie Antoinette never said, that the people should eat cake, if they don't have bread.
When you walk through the streets of Seoul, this exact bag is being worn by so many young Korean girls as a regular daily accessory. Korean beauty standards are on another level and doing scandal over 2k bag, is just a joke (but all media just need their share of such clickbait stories). First lady should get the 100+k gift in order to make some waves. 2k is like one private dinner for president and her. How can be people so dumb.
Yeah they have money for Dior bags but too poor to have children. Sorry off topic
media says money are the excuse or main reason, but that's not true. To buy little material status things is just a 1% healing tool for their insane work pace and mental health issues. Young generation have no private life in Korea. They just work, study & sleep. There is literally no time to have a family or raise the kid and have this immense responsibility. They first need to live end enjoy a little of their own lives after endless years of studying and working. After that they may be ready to have the families.
@@izzyrov5814 They're not "too poor" to have children. They're "too busy, and having too much fun" to have children.
@@izzyrov5814 they just couldnt get pregnant, and that story is fucking sad so if u dont know why tf u wouldnt stfu?
Publicity for Diorr😂
S. Korean politicians and LEADERS are well known for monetary bribes. Every Politician obtains FAVORS for either lack of follow up in addressing or not addressing various issues that are critical to the S.Korean people. These situations include housing, employment, crimes against women, health care and other matters that directly harm or support whatever issue they decide to address at that time. The President in fact received support because of his support against women’s critical issues in S. Korea…the opposing candidate was known for his favor of helping women’s issues. In fact men in S. KOREA attack women who they call FEMINISTS based (one I seen because she had a short hair cut) but are really are asking for equal treatment in employment, education or opportunities in leadership. These types of attacks are routinely excused. Thank you for sharing this story FIRST POST but it’s really a tip of the misogynistic culture and ignored behavior of accepting bribes for FAVORS.
The case involving the First Lady of South Korea, Kim Keon Hee, and the Dior bag scandal is not related to women's issues or feminist matters. Although there have been claims that President Yoon Suk Yeol used feminist issues to divide his supporters during his candidacy, the Dior bag incident is entirely unrelated to this. In Korea, there are widespread rumors that the First Lady is the de facto number one power holder, and there are suspicions that she is deeply involved in state affairs. Therefore, this case is not viewed as a minor transgression by the First Lady, but rather as a corruption scandal involving power.
Additionally, Kim Keon Hee has been embroiled in other controversies, including the Yangpyeong land issue, where it was alleged that the government modified the route of a highway project to benefit land owned by her family, leading to accusations of corruption. Furthermore, she faced allegations of academic misconduct, accused of committing plagiarism in her doctoral thesis and other academic papers. An investigative committee at Kookmin University, where she earned her Ph.D., cleared her of plagiarism in some papers but stated it was impossible to verify allegations in one paper, leading to continued suspicion.
한국정치인 공무원들 뇌물받으면 짤리니 한국뉴스에 난리나지
Oh yeah let me give $2000 to the top lady of the country to lower the taxes of my entire industry
I also heard that public education for girls are commonly rejected in korea.
Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote in the first place.
Antoinette never said the famous Cake line. That is an absolute myth.
I hope this lovely Lady stays safe 🌹
haha, the bag is kept as a property of the government... nice one 🤣🤣🤣
that made me lol for real..
Rather than making a fuss about a branded bag , they should be concerned about that what was the intention behind filming the video and what did the giver gained from the lady,how does she know him?
The intention was obviously to manipulate the gullible masses. Which succeeded.
It's not like someone who gave a $2500 handbag as a gift would realistically have asked for anything politically meaningful in response... And if he had asked for something and she had done it, he'd likely have revealed that as well and not just her accepting the gift.
@@Leto2ndAtreides You've got a point
It feels like one of his party planned this. It's so suspicious that the guy has a hidden camera. Isn't it illegal?
Catching actual corruption shouldn't be illegal, but this is obviously papparazi class garbage. This doesn't look like corruption at all (except maybe to very gullible people - which may be most voters).
Imagine taking a gift worth thousands from a PASTOR, a First Lady with any substance would have told him to sell and use the proceeds to help people in need to teach him how to honor his job as a pastor.
Some of the context was likely deleted when they edited the video to make her look bad.
The price of the gift barely justifies an actual meet with someone of that status.
"I wanted to bring you a gift" on the other hand, might be hard to turn down from a pastor (with their pretensions to goodness)... Because it's like you refusing to let a nice and respectable person be nice to you.
This case seems like third rate manipulation... That apparently works.
Wow I thought she was his daughter. 😅
She's an old lady with plastic face btw.
May be Plastic surgery of Botox fillings..
Absolute entrapment. But glad those laws exist.
I officially declare that I am ready to take on the burden of owning that gift myself.
When you receive gifts, who the heck asked for the price .?
My question is this....unless it WAS a set-up, why did he get video of buying it (including the price) and giving it to her?
Whether I agree with her accepting the gift or not, it was CLEARLY a set-up, most likely from a political opponent of her husband.
The fact that the media either chooses to ignore this or is not intelligent enough to figure it out is mind boggling.
And accepting a Dior bag is nothing like Marie Antoinette not caring if her people were starving. Once again the media is being overly dramatic for headlines.
As a Korean, I've enjoyed many of your vids. Your coverage is unbiased and unafraid to tell the truth, unlike woke western media.
Very disappointed to see FP waste its resources on this pseudo scandal.
I will have to reconsider whether this is a good news source.
I'll let you comment on Korean politics, but from France, I can notice they are referring to XVIIIth century fake news as fact 🙄
I think they wanted to show how out of proportion this got. but I admit, they could of explore as of why a priest wanted to frame the Lady with an expensive bag. Is the Lady supposed to know how much it was? if the priest lied about the price too. there isn't a lot of details.
I watch different news, and then make my own opinion based on what they all said. If the story is the same across, I will have questions 🧐
Cry Koreans 😅
Jealousy of the broke commoner. Plain and simple.
That's ridiculous, it's a gift and it's not even that very expensive. Also, how would she know the price at that time?
That’s a very good law. America should try it 😂
It’s actually great law
america has this law.
It just on books 😂😂😂😂😂😂SK politicians corruption r so huge even theie forget how much 💰 money their have taken😂😂
Is Nancy Pelosi aware of that law? 😂 I know Biden can be forgetful at times so thats makes it oke I think. And nobody ever know what Kamala Harris is saying but she sure isn’t sitting on the chair she supposed to 😂
Frfr
She was set up, but she should have immediately made a public apology, explaining she accepted it to be polite and didn't realize it broke the law. That would end the attack. They're not being smart about this...
bro its only 2250USD, every middle class Indian can buy it. ! what's the buzz? , that Dior bag was like every politician being offered flowers in india!
$2250 gift... i mean, she might have thought it was just a scarf or something... Seriously not a big deal. Politicians regulary get millions in donations all the time and nobody bats an eye. $2250 is not going to move the needle in anyone's favor much.
I just cant believe that woman is 51. she looks like she is in her 20s.
Her face also looks very plastic soo pretty believeable
That's south korea for you 😅
She also looks no less than 20 plastic surgeries done
The Marie Antoinette thing was always a false accusation. And she was apparently the kind of woman who apologized to her executioner just before having her head cut off for accidentally stepping on his foot. Sad stuff.
She has undergone numerous plastic surgeries, changed her name, and is suspected of manipulating Korean stock prices and falsifying her career. Now Korea is very anxious and unlucky because of her.
Damn I’m an American and kind of want to move to SK if this is how against corruption they are
Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." It was propaganda for the revolution to reflect her alleged overspending while the people starved (more likely the financial issue stemmed from France's many years of funding wars, including the American Revolution. This is not the same thing. She accepted an expensive gift violating anticorruption laws. She should gift the bag to a charity to be auctioned to the public.
In India we called it ....
#MahuaaMoitra lite scandal 😅😅....
It chant Mahuaa maahuaa😂😂...
based on this scandal and other Koreans commenting here, South Korea is to good of a country. If you compare this $2250 entrapment gift to other countries, South Korea is very much a holy land.
BFD, my dad was a doctor and my mom had her first Dior bag in the 70s. Our family didn’t have a revolt
It was a small gift. Dior company should thank her for the free advertisements that she did for their product. Everyone admires her beauty and what she wears. Why not make a big deal of the hidden camera? Her privacy was intruded! What kind of pastor was it? Video taped the first lady without permission 😮
Dior doesn't really need to thank anyone. Small gift, big gift; that was improper, also because all the politicians on this planet are talking about fighting corruption. So they all should set an example. But they are talking about drinking water, instead they are binging booze! You've got a big point though by talking about the hidden camera.
@@monicastorbeck2238 This is almost definitely not corruption. The gift is too cheap to be something that would motivate her husband to do something in response.
The most you could get for this (optimistically) would be him publicly saying something like "The church does good work for orphans and we appreciate their work. More people should also give to such charities" and even that sounds like a stretch.
You almost can't use this gift in trade for something concrete.
I've seen lot's of Korean series actors promoting Dior😂 I wonder why everyone does it now I got clarity.
You have zero clarity.
Dior pays the actors to promote the brand. That has nothing to do with this incident !!!
This is about monetary bribe/corruption. Both are very different.
Too much clarity.
If someone pays a politician by giving them Porsche car, and if some actor promotes Porsche then what kind of connection you find there? clarity?
@@movieedits1017 that's true but it goes either ways.
Big f....g deal! People, get over it!😂
Just a gift. Lol. Its different if its real scandal about "corruption" using tax or someone else money.
The pastor giving a bag is similar to the rice bags in india 😂 SKs conversion is growing by the day
@@iridium8341 Lol the white envelopes are very familiar in kdramas, well at least they changed the color.
@@823Ami
What is white/red envelope ,I don't understand it's meaning.
Red means luck
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I never get this that
Christian missionaries has always converted people by threatening them, manipulating them, bribing them or use divide and convert and then they say Jesus is the true God.
That's what their true God teach them?
@@823Ami
They also send their missionaries to India.
In up when some boys realised they have came to convert people by manipulating them in their college the students cancelled their show and guess what the two girls started playing victim card that how unsafe India is and they were attacked by Indian men.
Ghinn aane lagi hai yaar dheere- dheere.
Trying to compare/connect SK's First Lady with Marie Antoinette over the "Let them (peasants) eat cake!" remark is missing the mark - as in, in this news we have not seen the First Lady dissed the normal Koreans directly or gave out-of-touch-with-reality statements like Antoinette did. Also, Marie was advised/being updated about her people's living conditions then...while the First Lady was not being briefed about her people that time. She was accepting a bribe disguised as a gift from a pastor seeking her alliance/protection/support for something he did against the law.
The analogy to Marie Antoinette is confusing.
You mean like Marie-Antoinette *didn't. Being more than 200 years old doesn't make any fake news real.
It's too cheap to be a bribe for a politician of that stature. Her using it in her day to day and not trying to hide it also implies that she didn't see it as anything serious.
Not hard to sell the bag and get something of similar value that isn't tainted - if you feel that it is tainted.
Most likely the guy guilted her into the meeting, and she didn't think it was likely to be anything bad because he wasn't asking for anything in return - wherein it turns out that he was hiding what he was trying to really get out of this.
I would investigate the pastor.I think he was up to no good. I don’t think the woman took it as a bribe
That’s ridiculous!!!
Great question support the wife or the party? Probably the answers will be 50/50
Party, obviously. You can apologize to the wife later.
She should just come out and explain the thing herself.
It’s a gift!! So??? If she didn’t accept,she’s deemed rude and ungrateful.
because it's the law. Giving gifts is in the DNA here which turned into buying influence where it became expected for you to buy a gift for someone no mater how poor you are. so to try to clamp down on corruption, this was a very serious law that all of us working here have to be very careful of. it's hard because most people have no ill intent with giving gifts here since it's the culture. but it has also become a serious political and corporate issue as well as in our schools here. buying influence with giving gifts. Seems innocent to buy a gift for your kids teacher. but then at what point, say a Rolex watch or luxury alcohol is given that the teacher feels he should reciprocate by increasing the kids grades over other kids or to get into a better University or bosses expect employees to give holiday gift and if not, maybe not have a job anymore. It's a serious issue here that goes back a long time. and if teachers are being fired for accepting gifts, then the 1st lady should also set an example or be held accountable. The law is the law.
Cash payments can be gifts too. Giving an object and calling it a gift doesn't solve the problem - it is not like giving something to a friend. She is a politician. Do you think there is no problem with a property developer giving a gift of apartments to an official and then the developer coicidentally getting approval for something because it's a gift and he's just being a nice friend?
In South Korea, this is a clear violation of the law. "Public officials shall not receive, demand, or promise anything of value exceeding 1 million won($750) at a time or 3 million won in each fiscal year from the same person, regardless of whether it is related to their duties and the name of the donation, sponsorship, or gift."
First, her husband was a prosecutor when the anti-bribery laws were enacted. Second, does it make sense that the First Lady doesn't know the laws of her own country? Third, the law against bribery of public officials was so famous when it was enacted a few years ago that it was nicknamed the Kim Young-ran law, and even elementary school students know it. And finally, is an unknowingly committed offense always innocent? She even had the opportunity to apologize and return the bag after the controversy, but she didn't. And if you think this is her first problem, don't say anything because you know nothing about Korean politics.
A bag is a bag, why this obsession with branded goods. We have unfortunately succumbed to this greed of show offism. South Korea has unfortunately become more American than Anericans.
So this is what they tried to cover up with the actor's death?
Sell the bag give the money to charity. All is good.
THE VERY FACT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL SECRETELY RECORDED THE MEETING, THE GIFT GIVING AND THE GIFT PURCHASE IS A CLEAR ENTRAPMENT OF THE FIRST LADY OF South KOREA. - SHE PROBABLY HAS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE DIOR BAGS THAN THAT ONE, SO, IN MY OPINION, SHE SHOULD RETURN IT TO THE GIFT GIVER AND ANULL THE MEETING, AND, ANY AGREEMENTS OR POTENTIAL ONES, WITH THAT PARTY MADE AT THAT MEETING, BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT DONE IN GOOD FAITH!
P.S.-- There are limited editions of the Lady Dior bag that come with a hefty price tag. For example, crocodile, ostrich and python Dior bags are known to be even more expensive than that and the prices in this segment can reach $30,000.
Don't say stupid things. Does it make sense that the First Lady doesn't know the laws of her own country? In fact, the law against bribery of public officials was so famous when it was enacted a few years ago that it was nicknamed the Kim Young-ran law, and even elementary school students know it. And finally, is an unknowingly committed offense always innocent?
I mean it’s bad yeah but at this point they’re just milking it. Compared to a lot of scandals (like sexual assault allegations) this scandal is pretty tame and I don’t understand why we’re only blaming the First Lady when the pastor is also suspect
She should have asked Jisoo Blackpink (Dior ambassador) for the price of that handbag if she actually didn't know how much that handbag was worth. Lol
Dior loving the free advertising
Don't mind doesn't she look quite weird like her face is as if she had layered a mask over her face that seems quite pretty and about appearance no other politicians think as much as she does
That's because of plastic surgery.
@@msdolly6101981 a failed one I think
The pastor, a Korean American, approached her as a dear friend of her late father who deceased in 1987 when she was 15 years old.
Well rules are rules, but I cannot believe a damn purse costs thousands of dollars. Simply insane.
It shows us that developed countries do not mean they are "politically" advanced. Yes, it is: South Korea is technologically advanced; there are many tech giants; Kpop and Kdramas are very popular; they are the most successful powerhouses in Asia. But they don't seem "politically advanced........"
China is the most powerful in Asia not South Korea lol 😅
@@aungaisum8654in terms of soft power and tech and automobile giants, sk is in the lead.
Yes they aren’t politically advanced. Just like India, they gained independence around late 1940s but a series a military coups+ 1997 imf crisis hindered their political advancement and law enforcements. Their political ideologies are heavily based on Confucianism and also catering to mnc conglomerates(it can also be that these conglomerates control politics also) since these companies helped the country to recover their economy during the IMF crisis. So while they improved technologically and economically, their mindset as a nation therefore their politics remain stagnant
Same with the US, EK, and any of the arab nations. There's corruption everywhere, some more covert than others.
@@blessmeaachoo8348No, they are not. How many automobile brands are from SK
This is ridiculous, it shows bad manners to ask someone how much they payed for a gift. I cannot believe people are making fuss about a bag.
You don't need to ask. You just decline. You should know that there's anti corruption laws as the first lady and shouldn't be accepting anything that comes even close to the limit.
If she was smart she wouldn't have accepted anything, ever, just to be safe. No need to take such risks when you're already living the life. If I was the president I'd be furious she was so dumb and can cost him the top job.
It's not about the bag. It's about corruption and BREAKING THE ANTI CORRUPTION LAW.
Why don't you go steal some cheap shit from the store and see if the store owners make a fuss or complain to the cops when they charge you for it?
If you know SK, you will know that they have such laws for a reason. All their previous presidents except moon have been corrupt and stealing money and have been locked up in jail after massive public protests.
Anyone in SK in office should know better, the public is sick of this shit, along with rich upper class chaebols showing off their power and money when most Koreans are struggling just to make ends meet. Even the Samsung bosses kid ended up going to jail for some corruption shit.
She should be lucky if she doesn't go jail. He should disown her, tell the cops to charge her or whatever and do the time she deserves.
Make her take responsibility for her own dumb actions instead of her husband losing his job or their party losing public support.
Kathleen Neuuman was stolen Gucci sunglasses to exchange “Dior Cheng “ sunglasses 🕶️
Definitely a setup. Or at least her husband's rivals/enemies are taking petty advantage of the story & everyone in SK loves a scandal. This is very absurd.
You're crazy😂
They are coward, they are targeting the first lady. Their major problems are politicians, they always fight each other. Korean people are awesome but not politicians. why they can't respect their leader, at least while they are in the office.
It doesn't seem like she looked at it to see how much it cost when they put the gift on the table. Whoever that was recording should be ashamed of themselves.
Exactly!!! It’s a gift! How is that bribery! It wasn’t like she asked for it then gave them something in return. Now receiving gifts also a wrong doing! What is wrong with the world!
It might have been a bribe or extortion in non-monetary transaction. According to the news report, a Pastor purchased this Dior bag and gifted to her… I don’t understand why a Pastor has the funds to make such a purchase and gift it to the President’s wife. Definitely something smells fishy…
@@cutepotato9075 Lol "gifts" are used a lot for favors. Don't be naive.
@@xc5103 😇😭
Whilst gifts are used in bribery and other nefarious transactions the present case does seem like an entrapment based on the pastor's behaviour. It's unfortunate the President's wife made the mistake of not rejecting the gift and telling the pastor that his action is inappropriate as she would not be unaware of the rules and consequences of accepting the gift.
I thought I was watching korean tv series, alas, this is real 😂
Why is this even a big deal? Seem like they are all salty their wives weren’t offered such a posh gift. 🙄
She can easily afford HERMES - that stupid DIOR leather bag has been turned into a political football to kick the president out of office. 🦶🏈
Actually the historic citation is poorly translated as Let them eat cake.
No cake was mentioned in French. Instead it was suggested the people eat BRIOCHE.
Brioche belongs to the category of food ne pastries called "Viennoiserie" (from Vienna).
Since croissant is another sort of viennoiserie, it would more fitting to translate the phrase as, Let them eat croissants !
Iridium he is telling some good facts
@@iridium8341 😂
By the way it is pronounced [bree-osh] in French 😉
Only the french knows that,the rest of the world knows she said "let the eat the cake then"
Smarter Antoinette never said anything resembling “let them eat cake / brioche.” Such a tired trope.
Be a bachelor like Modi and everything will be good.
No beg kharcha no corruption charcha 😂😂
Actually easiest way to do this is ..... First lady holds a colorful ballpoint pen that cost 20 won. The other guy likes the pen so much that they exchange ball pen for Dior bag. No gift, no corruption. Everyone can live happy ever after.
@@psquare2260 she still can't accept it, only 1M price thing she can accept in a year from 1person and this beg single handedly cost 3M SK currency (according to law), so it automatically create doubt.
@@pinkidrall4556 She did not take even one cent. They bartered bag for pen. Pen may be 10 won for you and me. But he loved it so much that he is willing to give Dior bag for that pen.
@@psquare2260 what someone else will get is 10-20won pen but what she got is 3M won dior, this can happen if you reverse the situation mean if she give 3M won beg in exchange for 10-20 won pen. as she have great responsibility as a first lady, she should be role model not opposite.
IT WAS JUST A GIFT OF A BAG. NOT A SCANDAL. THE PROBLEM IS, THE PRICE.
She has NOTHING to do with Marie A. IMELDA MARCOS would be a closer and more accurate similarity. 2250USD? That is NOTHING. Not like its a Birkin bag.
If you broke the rules, you should be held accountable.
This is too much for a Dior bag. South Korean society is unfare most of the times. Now see the amount of beauty products used in South Korea has made the 1st lady look like president's daughter now😂
Sounds like a set up, did she even know how much the handbag cost?? And would you not think a gift from a minister of religion would be a bad thing!?? Isn't he working for God!?
How do they expect the rules to stick to budgets with high rising prices
Gift from Uncle Kim...??? 😋😜😁
Kuch bhi😂😂😂😂
It's a bag, for the love of crap. How is this what we should be worried about in 2024
She is not the first and won't be the last. Did she steal the bag? This law should be amended to an acceptable gift of $3,000 USD.
Hmmmm. Jimin as global ambassador sent Dior‘s shares soaring, the First Lady is bringing it into a scandal. If he needed a gift to get access, that’s the real scandal and not entrapment.
Someone found out that his wife had a weakness for expensive handbags and used her to get to him. Happens all the time
She should apologize
All Korean girls have strong weakness for luxury stuff. They are superficial, Not hard to trick them
She should be walking around and showing up to every state organised event carrying that bag from now on
Marie-Antoinette has never, ever, said "Let them eat cakes". Historical falsehood.
There was clearly mal-intent to make a video before the gift was given. Send the bag back to the purchaser !!!