12 July, 2024
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| A photo posted by Yonhap News Agency on a site that sells to media organizations for a fee. It was removed on Tuesday afternoon. Yonhap News homepage capture |
In true Nazi Gestapo style, the former call-girl wife of our dictator, President Yun, is falling apart—literally. With more plastic surgeries than Frankenstein’s bride, her face looks like a patchwork quilt of botched procedures. This grotesque visage was captured in a photo by Yonhap News Agency, but the stitched-up plastic surgery disaster threw a tantrum, demanding Yonhap swap out the image already posted online.
Her supporters, ever the delusional bunch, claim that
Yonhap photoshopped the picture to make her look bad. Really? It’s hard to
defame someone whose face is a walking advertisement for the perils of too much
cosmetic surgery.
The former call-girl wife of our Nazi Gestapo president strikes again, demanding Yonhap News Agency swap out her photo.
Yonhap News Agency did the bidding of the presidential palace by swapping out a photo of Kim Gun-hee, the first lady and spouse of President Yun Suk-yeol. As soon as this happened, sharp-eyed commentators smelled a rat and suspected meddling from above.
On September 9, at 8:46 a.m., Yonhap News released a photo with the headline, "President Yun Suk-yul and his wife talking to Hawaii's governor." Then, mysteriously, on September 10 at around 5:56 a.m., the photo was replaced.
Both photos supposedly show the Yuns chatting with Hawaii Governor Josh Green after stepping off their private plane in Hawaii. But anyone with eyes can see the difference: the first photo has Mrs. Kim Gun-hee chatting with Green, and the second one shows President Yun.
Why the switcheroo? Yonhap's excuse is laughable: "We accidentally sent out the wrong photo due to the volume of images we received," they told Oh My News. Right, and I’m the tooth fairy. This so-called mistake conveniently happened after the first photo caused a stir online, with many noting that Mrs. Kim’s face didn't look quite right.
Yonhap claims it sells photos taken by its reporters to other media outlets. Funny how, by the afternoon of the 9th, the controversial first photo vanished from their paid site, leaving only the sanitized second one. Typically, removed photos come with an explanation, but not this time.
Conspiracy theories flourished. Was Kim’s face Photoshopped? Did Yonhap cave to external pressure from the presidential office? Given their track record, it's hardly a stretch to imagine.
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| Hi-Res Picture of Former Call-Girl Spouse before it gets deleted, Capture of Yonhap News Agency Picture |
Consider this: In January, President Yun abruptly canceled a public debate an hour before it was due to start, claiming a "cold." The presidential office even demanded that photos of the president's seat be removed from the event. And in May, they had the gall to complain to Kyunghyang Shinmun about a photo of Yun being cropped. The newspaper rightly compared this pettiness to North Korea's worship of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
So, Yonhap’s explanation doesn’t hold water, and the evidence points to yet another instance of this regime’s obsessive control over its image. Welcome to the world of 21st-century authoritarian photo ops, where the truth is as malleable as a dictator’s whims.