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Priyanka Shankar

Who is Kim Keon-hee, described as South Korea’s ‘Lady Macbeth’?

South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee disembark from an aircraft after landing at London Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom in November [File: Henry Nicholls/AFP]

Just days after South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed martial law order, memes and parody posts suggesting it had been carried out to protect his wife, Kim Keon-hee, began to circulate on social media.

According to a report that appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on December 12, one of the memes that went viral on social media platforms in South Korea read: “Yoon, the greatest lover who declared martial law for his wife.” Others have appeared comparing Kim to Lady Macbeth and Marie Antoinette.

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