Rotten Mango
Korean President LOCKS DOWN Country Because “Wife Doesn’t Want To Go To Prison”
Thu, 24 Apr 2025
Where is the first place she goes after being released from prison? The investigators and reports want to know…They start following her - into the mountains? The first place she visits has an unsettling feeling. It’s in the middle of the mountains and there is a giant stone monument at the entrance that reads - “final resting place for souls.” What is that pink building?It’s a square baby pink shade colored building with NO doors. Just two tiny prison style windows. That’s it.Outside the building there are all sorts of “offerings” for the spirits… Whoever built this “temple” built it to feed off the energy of dead spirits. Whoever did this - is using dark magic to their benefit. When reporters look into it - they realize the pink home allegedly belongs to the President of South Korea and the First Lady of the nation. The ones accused of using shaman magic to win the election, change the trajectory of the nation, and ultimately lock down the country to take control. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
Chapter 1: What are the mysterious balloons floating over South Korea?
It looks like a hot air balloon, but it's so much smaller and it doesn't come in those like fun rainbow colors. It's just a giant white balloon with a big black bag attached at the bottom, just drifting into the air. People are standing outside. They're covering their eyes from the sun, but also they're trying to get a good look at this thing. What is this thing?
it's so anticlimactic it's slow the balloon is slow but it's coming down and it's also so random like what is this giant balloon and it's not just one over the span of five months thousands of balloons five thousand five hundred giant balloons just keep mysteriously floating in the air in different parts of the country of south korea how big are they
There, I would say, it could probably fit two, three people in a balloon.
Oh, it's big.
Yeah. In the beginning, there was panic. I mean, some regions had to shut down the airspace. They delayed all flights. Some regions, the mysterious balloons, they start triggering these air raid alerts. But later on, it just becomes the way of life. Every citizen gets an amber alert. Balloon flying in your region, beware. Some of them land peacefully on the street, making people gather around.
Another one smashes into greenhouses. Others start breaking down mid-journey and they just start spewing stuff onto the street. A few land near police buildings. Two do end up causing a big stir because they land on the grounds of the South Korean presidential office, which means they got to be investigated thoroughly. The balloon itself is just a balloon. It's what's attached to it. That's weird.
There's no weapons. There's no like biological warfare. That's what people thought. It's just a ton of waste paper. Think about if you were to get all of your home trash bags and then attach it to a hot air balloon and send it on its merry way. There are cigarette butts, used toilet paper, cut up fabric. And there's also feces, animal feces, human feces, feces with live parasites like round worms.
I mean, I guess it's maybe if we're dramatic, could be considered biological warfare. It's poop balloons. That's what they're called. Sent to South Korea by North Korea. This is in 2024. Last year, for five months, when we were in Korea, we were getting alerts about the poop balloons that were being sent down near us. North Korea is sending a message.
Some of them have pamphlets inside with derogatory messages for the South Korean president and the first lady. And naturally, this becomes a huge diplomatic issue with Kim Jong-un's own sister, publicly responding, and she states rather sarcastically, That is wild. To be fair, they are not bullets. They are balloons. It's less lethal.
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Chapter 2: Who is the woman released from prison and why is she being followed?
It's a very strange, there's no other window on any other part of the house, on the sides, on the back, nothing.
No door, just two tiny windows.
Yeah. And it's this Barbie pink color. It does indeed get stranger as you walk closer. There are these tombstone-looking things surrounding the entire baby pink house. One of them there has this giant plum tree carved onto the stone. And next to that are seven bottles of soju, like vodka, opened. The soju's still in there. This is not litter. It looks like an offering of sorts.
The reporters, they start looking and the plum blossom tree, a lot of them note, sometimes this could be used for shamanistic practices. It means blessings, but this is clearly not a regular shamanistic building. It feels like there's a lot of dark energy here.
It feels like someone practicing dark shamanism, which in that case, the plum blossom is associated with lethal power and as conduits for rituals involving malevolent spirits. Back in the day, people would use plum trees, load up all their misfortune. So like if you have bad luck, you get a plum tree. You put all your bad luck in there.
You do a ritual where you take all of your misfortune, put it into the plum tree, and then bury it with dead people. So in the afterlife, these deceased people will have your bad luck. You're passing it on. And they can't even say no because they're deceased in this world. There's various stone pillars around the house.
Then surrounding those carvings, you have these steel flag poles without flags. And if you look closely, there's a lot of dragon emblems. Dragons are usually closely associated with kings. Typically, only the royal family and associated high officials were allowed to use dragon motifs in their clothing. That's it. And then lastly, you just see this puffer jacket just hanging outside.
Nobody's wearing it. It's not hanging like outside of this pink house, outside of the poles on like a stand, like one of those basket chairs. But it doesn't look like, oh, I was wearing my puffer jacket, but it got hot. So I threw it on the chair. It looks intentional.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the pink building and ancestral burial grounds?
Really?
In shamanism, it's usually a warning to outsiders. This is our home. Do not enter. Many shamanistic experts had back and forth conversation. What does the pink mean? Are you sure the plum blossom tree is the dark shamanism? What does this building symbolize? What does this mean? There's so much back and forth.
But one thing that people noticed is that this pink color looks so oddly similar to another case that we covered. The Samphong Mall collapse. It's a department store in South Korea that collapsed in the middle of the day with close to 1,500 shoppers and staff all getting trapped. Ultimately, 502 people died in the collapse. The mall's outside exterior was painted the exact same baby pink color.
You are freaking kidding me.
And now there's this temple in the middle of nowhere. And what were the names outside? Yoon Seok-kyul and Kim Geun-hee. Why are the names of the South Korean president and the first lady outside this temple? And is it just a coincidence that they live in the apartment building built on top of this Hanpung department store collapse?
This is the current ongoing case of the newly impeached South Korean president and the first lady. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. They are volunteer-based and provide free medical care and humanitarian aid to thousands of children.
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And I just want to be clear, I 100% support freedom of religion, spirituality, beliefs, and any support comments or criticisms are not ours. And also, I do think... Even with more widely accepted mainstream religions, there's always limits to it. I think freedom of religion and spirituality is great until you're harming other people.
This is also not an analysis or a think piece regarding Korean or even US politics. We're just merely covering the current events that have shaken South Korea recently and reporting on what's been happening because everybody has been requesting it. Oh, and another thing. I do think that the title of president is one that should be earned through trust by the people.
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Chapter 4: Why did the South Korean president move out of the Blue House?
Oh, COVID time.
Now the president takes the stage and his very first speech as the new president of South Korea, he leans into the microphone. Based on the values of freedom, human rights, fairness, and solidarity, I will steadfast create a country where the people are the true masters. Thank you. the crowd starts going crazy. And President Yoon's wife, First Lady Kim, I mean, I know this is like societal norm.
I don't know why. I hate it. Listen, but society just loves a supportive, brainless First Lady. They just want to see her clapping and smiling like, I love my husband. I love this great country. But something about her, she's just stoic. She's not cheery. She's not that, oh my gosh, I love making cookies for Christmas. She just looks as if she's deep in thought. December 2024th,
It's like the biggest concert in the world. Just a sea of people out in the cold in their puffer jackets. This is December in Korea. It's like snowing. There's filling the entire street. Multiple blocks are shut down to the point where you think, is every major K-pop idol performing at this concert? It doesn't make sense. There's old people, there's young people. They're holding up light sticks.
There's this massive stage with a screen and they're blasting K-pop.
You're talking about Christmas Eve?
Yeah.
December 24th?
No, December 2024. Oh. It's before Christmas. Oh, okay. But they are singing Christmas songs too. And you have this random old guy coming out to play his guitar and sing songs. And then you find out that this random old guy is a senator. And you're like, what's happening? What's going on right now? and people have their light sticks, and they're all buying coffee for each other.
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Chapter 5: How do shamanism and dark rituals relate to the president and first lady?
By playing K-pop songs?
Yes, and it's like a sea of people all protesting. Like the whole city was shut down.
Okay. And then music are playing like people speakers. They're just holding a speaker.
No, there's a whole stage. There's a sound team. It's literally a concert. There's a giant screen. They're singing Feliz Navidad. But the new lyrics are Yoon Seok-yeol has to fuck off. Then it's a Merry Christmas. Kim Gun-hee has to get punished. Then it's a Merry Christmas. The right wing has to be disbanded. Impeach him right now. Impeachment is the answer. Else the country will be ruined.
And then it's a Merry Christmas song.
Okay.
And this all happens because previously, a few days prior, three helicopters, they just land on this big lawn. It's like near midnight. Three helicopters side by side. It looks like an action movie. The door is open. You got teams of guys in camouflage running out. And this is all over the news. There's tanks coming down the street.
There's more helicopters in the air and they're shining that little spotlight down as if they're looking for someone. And this is happening at the National Assembly Building. There's a 70-year-old man wearing a mask and a hat, and it's cold. His hands are freezing. He called his wife before he came here, and he said, look, anything can happen. I don't know what's going to happen right now.
Love you. Things are not looking very promising.
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Chapter 6: What controversies surround the Itaewon tragedy and its aftermath?
With one researcher stating, I mean, no matter who you voted for, it doesn't matter your political affiliation. Martial law in this day and age in South Korea is nonsense. I mean, you even have to wonder, was this President Yoon's entire plan all along? Get voted in so that he could take complete control? I mean, President Yoon is a pretty divisive president. He wins the election by just 0.8%.
That's not even a full percentage. He isn't even particularly popular, but the people who love him will die for him. I mean, I guess here we are, right? He was known as a career prosecutor who is known to play by the books. I mean, you ever meet those people? You like play a game of Monopoly with them. I mean, you're just learning how to play.
You make a mistake and they're like, no, the rules are the rules. It's like too serious. That was the initial public perception that people had until you find out that he failed the bar exam nine times. And he's just not that bright, you know? But a lot of people who are already very right-leaning, ultra conservative, they love the fact that he was not a career politician.
This is his first political role other than being a prosecutor. Like this is his first public office held. Even though generally speaking upon, it's kind of frowned upon in Korea for former prosecutors to run for higher office because prosecutors are supposed to be politically neutral.
And so if you run, you have to go with a party and then, you know, you're mixing in with a bunch of other people that could try to bribe you later. A lot of people were not happy about this election, but they kind of sued themselves with the idea of, Well, he's kind of a lame duck, isn't he? I mean, the Democrats, they've got the National Assembly majority. So like, what is he going to do?
He's not going to be able to do anything. He's just going to sit there pretty and that's it. But he does some very ominous things. One of the biggest things during his campaign trail, October 1st, 2021, presidential candidate Yoon goes viral. On his left hand, first of all, is a very pricey looking watch, yes. But also, there is a word written on his palm.
So he's talking, he's doing a debate, and it's almost like someone drew with a sharpie one symbol. It's the Chinese symbol for kink. Why the hell would you write king on your palm? You're not writing strength, courage, good luck, president, servant, for the people.
Is it like, it's also like, is it traditional Korean?
It's hanja. So it's traditional Korean, yes. But a lot of like, I guess, Western sources call it the Chinese symbol for king.
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Chapter 7: What is the role of the shaman Chun Gong in South Korean politics?
And to his right, there's two men. To his left, there's two women. And this is probably the most fascinating conversation that he's ever been involved in. They are acting like he is God who is walking down back on earth. They're treating him like the king right now.
We're treating who?
This reporter. And it's making him feel good about himself. Meanwhile, all he has ever done is write shit pieces against the future first lady and her husband, presidential candidate Yoon. Meanwhile, future first lady Kim, she's just laying on a daybed in the office right next to it, right next to him. She's just laying there on her side like a beautiful French lady. That type of energy.
Wait, hold on. kim yes is the first lady right but this is prior to the yes them winning the election and she invited a reporter that hates her and then like she's laying next to him and this is the very first meeting and her whole team is treating him like he's the world's best reporter that has ever existed
And he's so confused, but also it's kind of working. He feels good. I mean, you would think that these two have been best friends since high school and they're just seeing each other again. That's the level of casualness in which First Lady Kim is directing herself. This is their first meeting. And she's laying on her side. She's giggling, getting up, pouring him more alcohol.
He says, after drinking, my face got a bit red and I put my hand on the table and she suddenly yanks it towards her body. So she's pulling his hand. Naturally, his body is going towards her. And she announces to the staff, hey guys, I'm going to read his palm. See if I'm right or not. She's studying the lines on his palm. This oppa is going to do really well in the future.
He's a married man, but he has a woman on the side. Reporter Lee is like yanking his hand out because what do you mean? Where would I even have a woman on this? I don't even have time to meet women. He says, behind me, I could hear the other two female employees chuckling, giggling, and then they start reading out his palm. And first lady Kim states, he's really good at night activities.
And all the girls start giggling and tapping him on the shoulder. Night activities as an intimate relations. Reportedly, he says he feels so uncomfortable he just wants to leave. He finally comes up with an excuse. Kim follows him out, shoves an envelope in his pocket for the taxi ride home. When he opens it up in the taxi, it's $21.50 bills. It's the $50,001 bill. In Korea, it's the highest bill.
So how much is that?
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Chapter 8: What unusual rituals and practices are alleged involving the president and first lady?
Yeah, what's his reason for not allowing photos and hanging photos?
He said it was too quick to organize with every victim's family if they consented to photos, if they consented to names. But most of the families were like, no, we want that. Yeah. And then nine days after the Itaewon incident, President Yoon moves into the presidential residence away from the Blue House. He does not move into the Blue House, which is like the White House of South Korea.
He moves into the Defense Ministry Building.
He went from Blue House to there.
No, he goes from his personal apartment that is built on top of Sanpung Mall Collapse to this defense ministry building. He does not want to move to the Blue House.
Like, unprompted move.
This was one of the first things that he does as president. He said that he was going to spend 30 to 40 million dollars of taxpayer money to live in the defense ministry compound. He claims that him not moving into the Blue House is him rejecting the traditional presidential residence because it's symbolic of imperial power. He said he wants to feel connected with the people.
Nobody believes that. They think it's shamanism. And it's very interesting because people say, wait, I feel like the defense ministry building has way darker history. That area was Japan's military headquarters during the colonial period. Before that, a lot of kings would bury their concubines in that region. So there's history in that area.
There's even rumors that there's a massive gravesite under the Ministry of National Defense office. Why would he want to move there over the plush, beautiful blue house, the palace? A lot of people say President Yoon and First Lady Kim believe the entire blue palace has bad feng shui. Now, to be fair, feng shui can be, at times, perspective.
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