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Another act by a lone nut? Not quite, if the report is to be believed. The man who torched the office of this newspaper appears to have had plenty of encouragement after-the-fact, if not before.

Another act by a lone nut? Not quite, if the report is to be believed. The man who torched the office of this newspaper appears to have had plenty of encouragement after-the-fact, if not before.

More bad news for press freedom in South Korea. The woman slated to become the new presidential secretary for public information apparently thinks one of the ways the government should advance its agenda is to favor sychophantic newspapers and try to destroy the critical ones: “So long as the Chosun Ilbo remains the most influential newspaper, no reforms of the government can succeed,” she asserted. She also proposed a drive to double the readership of the Hankyoreh, attributing the daily’s...

More bad news for press freedom in South Korea. The woman slated to become the new presidential secretary for public information apparently thinks one of the ways the government should advance its agenda is to favor sychophantic newspapers and try to destroy the critical ones: “So long as the Chosun Ilbo remains the most influential newspaper, no reforms of the government can succeed,” she asserted. She also proposed a drive to double the readership of the Hankyoreh, attributing the daily’s...

Supporters of South Korea’s leftist President Roh-Moo Hyun have announced a fresh campaign to persuade citizens to cancel their subscriptions to the often-critical Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, and to subscribe instead to the pro-government Kyunghang Sinmun and Hankyoreh Sinmun. The latter newspapers both strongly support the Roh administration’s policy of appeasing North Korea and assuming a more neutral role toward the United States, which maintains 34,000 troops in Korea for that nation’s defense. The group, known as Nosamo, or...

Supporters of South Korea’s leftist President Roh-Moo Hyun have announced a fresh campaign to persuade citizens to cancel their subscriptions to the often-critical Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, and to subscribe instead to the pro-government Kyunghang Sinmun and Hankyoreh Sinmun. The latter newspapers both strongly support the Roh administration’s policy of appeasing North Korea and assuming a more neutral role toward the United States, which maintains 34,000 troops in Korea for that nation’s defense. The group, known as Nosamo, or...

Supporters of South Korea’s leftist President Roh-Moo Hyun have announced a fresh campaign to persuade citizens to cancel their subscriptions to the often-critical Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, and to subscribe instead to the pro-government Kyunghang Sinmun and Hankyoreh Sinmun. The latter newspapers both strongly support the Roh administration’s policy of appeasing North Korea and assuming a more neutral role toward the United States, which maintains 34,000 troops in Korea for that nation’s defense. The group, known as Nosamo, or...

Update 9/16/05: We have solved the mystery of where Park gets his MacArthur quote–a history textbook from North Korea whose poisonous content found a willing host in the radical politics of South Korea. Must read to believe. _______________ Park Seong-Hwan, the epic poet who (may or may not have*) brought us “Fucking USA“* has penned a new ditty that will soon hit Korea’s Top 40, and it’s a real piece of historical scholarship: Between verses two and three, Park adds...

Via a reliable source, to whom I will leave the option of identifying himself if he chooses, comes word that Norbert Vollertsen will be back in Korea for a few days this week to attend a meeting at which some new video recently smuggled out of North Korea will be shown. The significance of Norbert’s return depends on whether you considered his recent expulsion from Korea to be politically motivated, as he had claimed at the time, or the simple...

Putinization Update: South Korean journalists say press freedom continues to worsen. They hold Roh responsible.