Vampire treatment

The presidential office purchased placenta solutions and vitamin solutions for injection worth over 20 million won (15,300 U.S. dollars) on 31 occasions from 2014 to June this year. These injections are known to have efficacy in anti-aging and beauty care such as skin whitening and wrinkle removal, but large university hospitals rarely prescribe them due to lack of medical evidence. According to a Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service report submitted to the National Assembly on Tuesday, the presidential office purchased 50 pieces of Laennec, an extraction from human placenta, each time on three occasions last year alone. “The volume is insanely large,” a source in the medical community said.

Kim, a long-term medical doctor for Choi Soon-sil, often visited the presidential office and injected President Park with placenta solution, it has been confirmed. Considering that the presidential office purchased injectable solutions in large quantities, the president may as well have had keen interest in the therapy, but it could also mean that some people also received injections with her. Also notable is the injectable solutions are produced by Green Cross Corp. Dr. Kim, who became an advisory doctor to the president, moved from Chaum Clinic to Green Cross Corp.’s I-Med hospital. The presidential office claimed that they purchased them through normal process to help support health management of staffers including secret service agents working at the presidential office, but we wonder how on earth placenta injections are linked with health management.

Vampire treatment using blood is also utilized as means for rejuvenation in the market. The most common is skin regeneration therapy using one’s own blood that is meant to regenerate aged skin by using one’s own blood. Then there is ‘rejuvenation treatment’ in which an aged person gets transfusion of blood from a young person. A research team at the University of California, Berkeley published the result of an animal study on this in "Nature Communications" on Tuesday. In the blood switching experiment, an aged mouse who received blood transfusion from a young mouse enjoyed recovery of damaged muscle, but the therapy had no effect on genetic factors related to aging.

Photos illustrating the history of President Park’s facial appearance are in circulation online. As time passes, she looks increasingly younger, which is amazing. When compared with her looks more than 10 years ago, her face now has fewer fine wrinkles, with her skin also looking more vital. Netizens ridicule her by saying that her skin is going reversely over time, her wrinkles are going reversely, and democracy is also going reversely. The president’s use of all different therapies to reverse the passing of time would be part of her "privacy as a woman." However, the public wishes to have an honest president who lives up to her age all the more.