Park Geun-hye is ‘metal’, Xi Jinping is ‘earth’, so bilateral ties are smooth: fortune-tellers’ advice to disgraced South Korean president revealed
- The predictions, delivered to the now-jailed former premier by police, were released to media this week
- They covered a range of advice topics, from diplomacy and national security to the economy and the president’s personal luck
Why? Because South Korea is “tree” and Brazil is “water” by nature, according to the traditional Chinese philosophy of Wu Xing, which uses the interaction of elements to explain and predict everything from health and medicine to the movements of heavenly bodies – and politics, of course.
These were some of the predictions that fortune-tellers, to whom the disgraced Korean former leader regularly turned to for advice while in power, handed to elite South Korean police officers to pass on to the presidential Blue House.
Copies of these executive-level reports were released to media this week, confirming that Park was indeed lending an ear to mystics while in power, said Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Jae-jung.
According to Lee, if Park liked the predictions, her government officials would reward the police officers with career promotions.
And while many South Koreans still consult fortune-tellers – though this practice is waning as the country’s modernises – Lee said Park’s decision to involve police in her beliefs was “absurd”.
