Hello everyone. This news article was linked in Google translation elsewhere on Reddit as support for the "8 goddesses" or "8 faeries" theory of the Choi Sunsil conspiracy. I decided to translate it quickly as an exercise. Make of it as you would like. I also appreciate translation improvements and corrections. The original was published by Chosun Ilbo here.
Title: Miae Chu: "8 daoist fairies at Choi's secret meetings"
Written: 2016.10.27 3:00 / Edited 2016.10.27 07:56
Tag: [Choi Sunsil's monopoly on state affairs]
Subtitle: Female business leaders, professors, CEO's wives, etc. become topic of discussion ... Behind-the-scenes influence on business and state affairs
Chu MiAe (Opposition party DDP) leader
/Written by Nam Kang-ho / Translated GameDori3
Choi Sunsil, who is being accused of running secret meetings of (political) heavyweights, is now being accused in political circles of running secret meetings of a group known as the "8 (daoist) faeries" to intervene in state policy. Chu MiAe (shown in photo), representative of the DDP (main Korean opposition party) on the 26th, said "Strange reports are being received that (Choi) used the '8 faeries' meetings to wield strong influence in financial circles, as well as intervening behind the scenes in state affairs," and "it is incredible that anywhere in the world a jobless person like her would have a free hand over the state affairs of any country, with influence over diplomacy, security, administration, and even personnel decisions." Representative Chu reported that "while in daylight the President was Park Geunhye, at night the President was Choi Sunsil."
In political circles it is becoming a subject of much discussion (tr. speculation?) the names and identities of those female executives, women of means, female professors, etc. we know as the '8 faeries.' The presently discussed list of names includes executives at large companies, the wife of one large company's owner, and others. Other people who have been evaluated as possible members of the "8 faeries" are wives of high-ranking government officials whose husbands are known to be friends of Choi or who have been singled out for promotion in the present government. In particular, suspicion is growing that Lee SeongHan, who was a close aid to Ms. Choi and is the former president of the Mir Foundation, is included in the "8 faeries," following proof that Ms. Choi ran several different secret meetings separated by subject. Currently all the persons whose names have been brought up are denying the accusations.
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