er of the opposition Democratic Party, her husband’s chief antagonist. “Honestly, I just want to shoot Lee Jae-myung and then take my own life,” she is alleged to have said….
Ever since his emergence on the political stage five years ago, Kim, 52, has lent much-needed glamour to Yoon, a solemn and austere former prosecutor. But from the beginning, she has been a figure whose strong opinions have sometimes eclipsed the conservative political agenda pursued by her husband.
During the presidential election campaign in 2021, she apologised publicly for “exaggerating” her academic achievements. In conversations covertly recorded by a journalist, she implied that she was the power behind the throne and would remain so if Yoon was elected president.
“Have you heard of ‘the second VIP’?” she asked, referring to the role of first lady. “I don’t think Yoon Suk Yeol is really the president. That fool is just a puppet.”
With personal assets of close to 50 billion won (£28 million) in 2018, her wealth as a businesswoman far exceeds that of Yoon.
She spoke of her interest in “dosas” or spiritual gurus. Her doctoral dissertation was about fortune-tellers and all of this played into claims, always denied, that Yoon was employing supernatural techniques on the campaign trail, such as writing a mystically charged Chinese character on his hand.
Strange. Very strange.
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