Korea

The end of an era passes with Roh

[Column] The end of an era passes with Roh
Kim Sang-bong, Professor of Philosophy, Chonnam National University
When I first heard the news that he had thrown himself off a cliff in the mountains behind the village, I knew that an era had come to end. Former President Roh represented our era. No one else but him… »

Google refuses South Korean government’s real-name system

Google bypasses internet regulations regarding user protections by limiting YouTube Korea’s Web site functionality
Google’s Korea Unit has decided to refuse South Korean government’s Internet regulations. Based on the Law on Internet Address Management, South Korea implements a “real-name” system, which requires a Web site to confirm users’ personal information such as their real names and… »

[Korean MBC] Message to the world ‘fight against Control of Speech in Korea’

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S. Korea’s bulldozer buries media dissent

http://blogs.newamericamedia.org/nam-round-table/1542/s-koreas-bulldozer-buries-media-dissent

posted on jan 08, 2009 06:59:04 pm by peter schurmann
[ filed under: asia  media ]

South Korean authorities arrested an unemployed man on Wednesday suspected of being the author of a series of online postings critical of the government’s economic policy.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office arrested the 31-year-old identified by his surname Park on Wednesday and is conducting… »

MBC labor union’s protest strike against the revision of the broadcast bill

http://cafe.daum.net/saveourmbc/KSdY/9

Cats like fishes.
But cats do not love fishes.
Seeing from the ‘logic of economy’ as he[President Lee] says, they might be so delicious fishes.
How much would it be comfortable if they can cook as their appetite?
But shouldn’t it not be only their dish?
But the fair public broadcast that we ‘love’…!
Please, in order not to be their… »