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Video of kids cursing Lee sparks police probe

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2893362

August 07, 2008
As a recently posted Internet video clip of elementary school students writing curses directed at President Lee Myung-bak causes public outrage, police yesterday launched a probe into the incident.

Principal Kim Hak-won of the children�s school on Tuesday accused an anti-U.S. beef protester of setting up the whole video, causing the Masan East Police Precinct�s cyber crime investigation team to begin an investigation.

Saying they don�t yet know who actually shot the clip, police said yesterday they have discovered the identity of the person who posted it. The 51-second video was put on the Internet by 31-year-old Baek Seong-gyun, police said, one of the six main organizers of anti-U.S. beef demonstrations of the past few months.

Baek, who has been wanted by police since July 5, is participating in an anti-U.S. beef sit-in at the Jogye Temple, where the organizers of the rallies have been holed up.

The clip shows six students writing anti-Lee notes such as, �I will kill you� on the temple�s guest book while visiting from Masan, South Gyeongsang on a field trip.

Baek operates anti-U.S. beef Web site Michincow.net (�michin� is a crude expression meaning crazy in Korean). He first posted the video clip on the online blog of the sit-in protesters on Aug. 1 and a day later deleted the file, police said.

Before he deleted it, however, the clip was disseminated by other users on a range of different Internet bulletin boards, including the country�s largest debate forum, Agora.

�School officials are scheduled to give their statements tomorrow,� said a police officer on the case requesting anonymity. �We are at the beginning stages of the investigation, so we need more time.�


By Park Sang-wooStaff Reporter [[email protected]]

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Anyone got a link to the video?

[Pyongshin Sangja]

"I will kill you."

Sounds ominous, but Koreans say that all the time to each other.

And only do so every once in a while.