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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: Actress Ko So-young Sues Netizens for Libel |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200705/200705230009.html
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Actress Ko So-young Sues Netizens for Libel
Actress Ko So-young has sued 35 netizens for libel through the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, accusing them of spreading false rumors about her private life through Internet message boards, cafes, and blogs.
"Some netizens have spread lies in cyberspace for several years, saying that I'm personally close to a particular person who I have never met," Ko said through her lawyers.
"As an unmarried woman and a public entertainer, I felt shock and shame, but I refrained from direct response and instead asked the portal sites to delete the comments, hoping that the rumors would naturally be revealed to be false," Ko said.
"But every time I was the subject of discussion, these lies were deliberately repeated and spread off-line. I have no choice but to sue the writers," she continued.
She added, "Spreading false stories about personal life with irresponsible and evil intentions under the protection of anonymity must be stopped. I hope these legal actions will be an opportunity to solve my personal problems and improve cyber etiquette."
Last month Ko threatened through her fan website that she would take legal action to stop the Internet slanders about her love life and a rumored baby.
People who write malicious Internet messages can be punished under the Information Protection Law and criminal laws. Rumor-mongers can be sentenced to up to seven years in prison or fined up to W50 million.
Last January, Lim Su-Kyung, who visited North Korea in 1989, sued 25 netizens who wrote malicious messages mocking her son's death. Prosecutors fined 14 of the writers W1 million each for the insults. It was the first time netizens had been prosecuted for the content of Internet messages.
Last June, Kim Tae-hee sued 34 netizens who wrote malicious messages about her alleged marriage to a chaebol son and her pregnancy. Eleven were indicted but Kim withdrew the charges. |
I'm not a big fan of Korean libel laws (if you print the truth, you can still be successfully sued, if your revealing of the truth caused some financial damage). However, netizens are scum-sucking worms. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: Actress Ko So-young Sues Netizens for Libel |
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| Ko So-young had sex with me when I was only 9 years old, and I wasn't the first boy this sexual predator ruined. |
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JD1982
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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biatch! Can't take a joke...  |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I think these charges would stand up in most countries' courts. At least I hope they do. Netizens are scumbags who deserve a good kicking. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| Good to see. In some ways Korea is changing for the better. Those nazizens need a good kick in the @ss. |
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yayforme
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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good for her!!
those netizens are pretty cruel, like verbal paparazzi, they just make crap up. It's pretty sad that they actually try to carry out death threats and encourage celebrities to kill themselves. stupid hate culture. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:17 am Post subject: |
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i have to say though - it takes a really fucked up country to grant netizens this kind of power.
douchebags on the internet hurt my feelings. oh darn.
only in korea would that be an isssue.
agreed, all netizens need to be punched in the face until they stop moving, but who gives them power? |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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It's too extreme sometimes...
Kim Tae Hee once sued netizens for saying rumors about her on the internet! All they said was that she was into this old guy because he was rich.....come on now. |
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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| But how do they actually catch those anonymous nuttizens especially if they are different people from the real owners of the citizenship numbers that they typed in to join those websites? I guess simple IP address tracking cannot work so well. Any expert? |
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