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SOUTH KOREA - THE BORROWED NAME

By Baek Hyejin · 4 parts · 12 h 3 min · English

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South Korea, 1961 to 2026: a country with strong institutions, whose courts convicted presidents, a Samsung heir and the prosecutors meant to police them, and whose most powerful convicts kept walking out on pardons, some with forfeitures unpaid. From a four-trillion-won pyramid scheme whose founder left by boat for China, through the generals' slush funds and Samsung's secret tapes, to savers' deposits sunk in a half-built town in Phnom Penh, a stablecoin's collapse and Cambodia's scam compounds, it follows money hidden in borrowed names to the prosecution service's last day. Covers Jo Hee-pal and BMC, Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, Lee Kun-hee and Samsung, Kim Woo-choong and Daewoo, Busan Savings Bank and CamKo City, Do Kwon and Terraform Labs, and Kim Keon-hee and the Unification Church.

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  1. Part 01

    2:55:30

  2. Part 02

    3:09:16

  3. Part 03

    3:01:51

  4. Part 04

    2:56:05

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