Yes, we’ve had quite a couple years in American politics. But don’t go complaining to South Koreans where an equally (if not more) weird era came to a close with the former president being sentenced to spend 24 years in prison and pay $17 million in fines. “Whereas most politicians fall from grace due to banal things like corruption or marital infidelity, the fall of South Korea’s first female president resulted from her relationship with a shadowy figure from an obscure religious cult that critics have derided as a ‘shaman fortuneteller’ with sinister, Rasputin-like influence over Park.” Vox: South Korea’s former president is going to prison. The scandal behind it is batshit.