Korea, Thy Name is Hell Joseon

One of the biggest scandals of 2010 involved Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/world/asia/05korea.html], whose own daughter was found to have mysteriously qualified for a plum job inside the ministry, presumably with the father’s backing. This itself would not have been ordinarily such big news in South Korea, but the timing was most unfortunate for the minister-daughter duo: Only two weeks earlier then-president Lee Myung-bak had announced the launch of a campai