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[sojourner1]

I noticed that when I say something negative or speak a bad truth about Korea, it gets removed by the mods. Maybe the tone in my writing was too charged on a couple of occasions. I understand the site needs to maintain good relations with Koreans as it is dependent on Korean directors and recruiters advertising for English teachers.

While anything that downplays or is negative, even if it is true, is generally stamped out, what are the laws pertaining to free speech?

What civil rights do foreigners have? What civil rights do Koreans have?

We really should be aware of these sorts of things. I am not even sure what is illegal to say and what rights you have in the many situations life might throw at you while living in Korea.

This is not a thread to bash Korea, but to speak the relevant truths in a constructive manner.

Can anyone enlighten us?

[RACETRAITOR]

Free speech depends on who's president. When Park Junghee became president for life, he made it illegal to question his regime or the US military presence, or the US at all. Now there is free speech, but if you say it on the Internet it can be quickly erased, and if you say something political you might wind up with a 20-year protest on your front doorstep (that's how long the permit says for the protest about my father-in-law, after he said Park Junghee was a volunteer in the Japanese air force in WWII).

[GoldMember]

Forget about the laws. This is not a western country that has rule of law. It amazes me how many people can't get this simple concept through their heads.
This is the law. IT'S THE LAW OF PUBLIC OPINION!

Lone Star gets a hard time, why? Public opininon.

The reason the mods are sensitive is that there is a bunch of Koreans out there who have nothing better to do than to translate these posts and put them on Naver.

Hello Netizens! I love Korea and I love Kimchi!

[Bibbitybop]

The OP mixes 2 ideas: Free speech on eslcafe.com and free speech in Korea.

As a member of eslcafe.com and as a foreigner on an E-2 visa, you don't have free speech in either place.

Go protest somethings in Korea and get deported.

[Scotticus]

On the topic of "free speech" in Korea, I had some 3rd year high school students today ask me if we can criticize the government in newspapers in the US. I'm not sure if that's a bad reflection on Korean education, or the international community's perceptions of just how far we've fallen.

[peppermint]

uh, OP, the site is hosted from the US, why would Korean laws affect content on this forum?