THE DE-SATIRIZED ZONE

here is a remarkable shortage of memes about Park Geun-hye, despite the former South Korean president’s political scandals and ongoing lawsuits. In 2017, Park was impeached for allowing a cult leader’s daughter, Choi Soon-sil, to unlawfully meddle in presidential affairs, and for soliciting bribes from the nation’s mammoth conglomerates. Though the circumstances supplied ample opportunities for dark humor, a quick Google search for memes—or , as they are known in Korean—on Park yields unsatisfactory results. One merely encounters a handful of screenshots of her embarrassing public remarks—such as the statement that students would be haunted with “abnormal spirits” if they did not learn the “correct” version of national history, a message through which she pushed for a single, state-authorized history textbook. Entertaining as