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Hokie21
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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 Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 7:58 am Post subject: Re: North Korea is not pleased with new Kim Jong-un dance vi |
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Hokie, that's great. I think they will show how angry they are by sending a letter about how angry they are. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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I doubt China is unable to oblige. It's more like they are NOT HAPPY with KimJU for:
1. getting cosy with lately beligerant Japan
2. putting images of panda on their military's practice targets. (2 pandas will arrive next year in South Korea, but NOT to NK. suck on that KJU)
3. having a prettier wife in Lee SulJu, compared to ShiJInPing's FongLi.
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Very comical.
It was widely shown on Korean mainstream tv a couple weeks ago. My K-colleagues laughed but I sensed a little uncomfortably, not used to such ridicule of public figures.
Kudos to the guy who made it. |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Very comical.
It was widely shown on Korean mainstream tv a couple weeks ago. My K-colleagues laughed but I sensed a little uncomfortably, not used to such ridicule of public figures.
Kudos to the guy who made it. |
You mean not used to ridiculing such public figures when they're Korean?
If it were a black man (for example Obama or a celebrity), Japanese man etc, they would have been rolling about the floor in stitches. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| My K-colleagues laughed but I sensed a little uncomfortably, not used to such ridicule of public figures. |
You joking? Koreans often ridicule public figures. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
| My K-colleagues laughed but I sensed a little uncomfortably, not used to such ridicule of public figures. |
You joking? Koreans often ridicule public figures. |
Actually Mr. schwa is more or less right.
Although there are several shows now that target politicians such as "Gag Concert" or Naneun Ggomsuda it wasn't that long ago that such humorous takes on South Korean politics were frowned on.
http://www.economist.com/node/21543200
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| Though democratic for quarter of a century, South Korea's Confucian culture is top-down and deferential. Public criticism of the powerful, especially sarcasm, has abiding power to shock. Excessively strict defamation laws do not help—you can be found guilty even if you prove your criticism to be true. |
And at least one comedian has been sued
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/11/23/korea-comedian-sued-for-making-fun-of-politician/
And from Wiki (just from the last decade or so)
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In May 2002, KISCOM shut down the anti-conscription website non-serviam on the grounds that it "denied the legitimacy" of the South Korean military.[1] The Navy of South Korea accused an activist of criminal libel when he criticized plans to build a controversial naval base in the country.[3]
The government has deleted the Twitter account of a user who cursed the president, and a judge who wrote critically about the President's Internet censorship policies was fired.[3] In 2010, the Prime Minister's Office authorized surveillance on a civilian who satirized President Lee Myung-bak.[3]
In 2007, numerous bloggers were censored and their posts deleted by police for expressing criticism of, or even support for, presidential candidates. This even lead to some bloggers being arrested by the police.[6] Subsequently in 2008, just before a new presidential election, new legislation that required all major Internet portal sites to require identity verification of their users was put into effect. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_Korea |
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