Background: South Korea has a lot of intelligence assets and international groups intertwined with the state and, unlike Japan, lacks the same pre-occupation identity to fall back on.
Thus the most absurd insane-sounding bullshit like this "satanic cult"/"shamanistic cult"/"pseudo-Christian cult" or whatever the hell it is, with NGO's/intelligence all exposed, is to be expected
Swirling Scandal Involving Shamanistic Cult Threatens S. Korean President
October 29, 2016·8:12 AM ET
Tens of thousands demonstrated in cities across South Korea on Saturday, demanding President Park Geun-hye step down from office.
...The old friend of the president's, Choi Soon-sil, also runs two non-profit foundations that prosecutors say boasted of its ties with the president to collect more than $70 million in donations from the country's major conglomerates. Prosecutors opened up an investigation into the foundations in early October, and are seeking Choi, who is accused of siphoning some of those funds for personal use — including to cover equestrian training for her daughter, Chung Yoo-ra. (Choi emerged in Germany over the weekend and denies any wrongdoing.)
...And the ties are interesting, indeed. Choi Soon-sil is the daughter of a man the president considered her mentor, Choi Tae-min. He claimed to be a pastor from a tiny pseudo-Christian sect, but a leaked diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy describes him as a 'Rasputin'-like character and his "church" is described by Korean media as more of a "Shamanistic cult." The New York Times explains further...
That wasn't the first time such cults came in the Korean news:
The Cults of South Korea
The recent ferry tragedy has added another chapter to the country’s disconcerting history with cults.
By John Power
June 17, 2014
The Cults of South Korea
Credit: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
For more than six weeks, an obscure Christian sect widely described as a cult has dominated the news in South Korea. The reason: its alleged connection to a ferry sinking in April that killed more than 300 people.
Actual organically created "cults" tend to be local, when they develop international connections they become intelligence collaboration suspects. A good but long article on intelligence agencies interacting with cults, shared goals, and divergences:
SCIENTOLOGY & THE CIA
FEBRUARY 27, 2016
...Already in 2001 in the magazine Le Monde Diplomatique was published an article by the famous journalist Bruno Fuscero “Cults: a US Trojan Horse for Europe” [4], in which he quite reasonably wrote on the use of a whole set of cults, including Scientology, by US intelligence and diplomacy. Despite the sensational character of the article, no lawsuits followed after it.
Hardly anyone can deny that the US State Department lobbies the interests of Scientology in various countries: France; Germany; Italy; Greece; Russia; Hungary, etc. Even among the published Wikileaks documents, a report slipped by that after US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s arrival in Germany, German Scientologists were invited to the US Embassy for a briefing. Inasmuch as I know, no other cult enjoys such attention and such privileges from the United States government. I also understand that nothing is given for free in this world. So what can Scientology offer the US government that the latter would so actively lobby the interests of a comparatively not large cult with far from the most spotless reputation, and whose secret doctrine the whole world laughs at?
One of Scientology’s main objectives is the collection and storage of a large mass of information, so that with its help it can compromise and establish control over whomever: from a simple member of the cult who has gone astray to the powerful of this world, control of whom would give unlimited possibilities. 25 years ago the former head of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office said that Scientology “has one of the most effective intelligence services, which can even compete with the FBI.” From that time the cult’s capital has increased several times over, if not exponentially. It can afford to hire many more lawyers and private detectives, which significantly raises the cult’s potential for carrying out complex special operations...
One now-censored/removed article referenced on the US state dept pushing the cult
Germany rejects U.S. State Department report on Scientology
BONN, Germany (AP) - Germany reacted harshly Friday to new U.S. State Department criticism of its treatment of Scientologists, with one politician demanding his government lodge a formal protest with Washington.
A State Department report, issued Thursday, said business firms in Germany whose owners or executives are Scientologists ''may face boycotts and discrimination, sometimes with government approval.''
The statement was less directly critical of German action against Scientology than some recent U.S. government statements. But it still provoked strong responses in Germany, which views the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology as a threat to democracy. The church claims 30,000 members in Germany.
Peter Hintze, general secretary of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats, said he has ''absolutely no understanding'' of the criticism and that ''the USA is using a concept of tolerance'' that ignores the dangers posed by Scientology.
''Psychological terror cannot be dealt with in this way,'' Hintze said.
I'm not even going to dive into the contents of these cultists beliefs or their validity: to me they may as well be the "mind blown by acid" MKUltra victims, absolutely useless idiots who have their mental autonomy diminished.
So these Korean cults/NGO's are back in the news, and they are definitely a force active in East Asian geopolitics. It even appears like there was some idiocy involved in spreading the disease.
The fact that outlets like BBC and Buzzfeed are attacking "coronavirus conspiracy theorists" so viciously strikes me as interesting, because these same outlets attacked China on other occasions, including attacks on China when the chinese government reasonably asked why Julie Eadeh of the US state department was coordinating with Hong Kong "protestors". NYT was actively gaslighting Chinese questions about that
China’s Theory for Hong Kong Protests: Secret American Meddling
Background for what China was talking about from Zerohedge no less that displayed the Chinese side pretty fairly. Ironically enough it was "Coronavirus conspiracy" speculation that led to Zerohedge being deplatformed
Twitter bans Zero Hedge after it posts coronavirus conspiracy theory
So the fact these same MSM are attacking "coronavirus conspiracists" leads me to suspect China isn't the primary group hiding something. Their response strikes me as more of a typical embarrassed/angry response which is defensive in nature.
Anyways
I'm starting to see a pattern with some "suspiciously stupid" people acting in ways that could intentionally spread the disease in a way that seemed possibly organized.
One random woman (unconfirmed date/time/background) allegedly contaminating public utilities to spread coronavirus: https://twitter.com/owishemwe/status/1225634091355082752?s=19
Dear Gov’t of Uganda, this woman was caught on CCTV maliciously spreading the virus by putting water in her mouth and spitting it onto surfaces people touch and sit on. Is this the China you said we are safer in @KagutaMuseveni ?
EvacuateUgandansInWuhan https://t.co/xQcxnDPOPZ
And the Korean Church/cult that just came up as it appears to be linked with the spread of the Coronavirus disease. MSM is reporting on this, it is not a "conspiracy theory".
https://time.com/5787898/south-korea-coronavirus-sect/
http://archive.ph/yC3x6
South Korean 'Cult' at Center of Local Coronavirus Outbreak
This "South Korean cult" appears to be linked internationally as well...
Something weird is definitely going on with this disease.
It would have previously been reasonable to ask if the disease was either a natural phenomena, or a purely an accidental leak from a Chinese state run facility a la Sverdlovsk.
But now it seems that, regardless of the disease origins, there is definitely some sort of coordinated and intentional effort to spread it.
there doesn't seem to be anything here