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Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:37 am Post subject: Seoul Searcher blog |
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Did any of you use to read the newspaper column called "Seoul Searcher" by Cho Se-hyon? Now he has a blog.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/choseh
Like the column, the column is very honest and thus interesting reading.
Example:
| Cho Se-hyon wrote: |
... Roh was ridiculing journalists for writing �novels� when they reported on a corruption scandal in his administration involving a former top presidential secretary.
The fiction the journalists were allegedly writing, however, turned out to be �nonfiction� as the prosecutors slowly and ever so reluctantly began to uncover the scandal.
The prosecutors have been dragging their investigation on for more than three months while the press was also digging or rather peeling away one layer after another, like an onion, and unraveling the scandal between Byeon Yang-kyoon, 58, resigned Chief Presidential Secretary for National Policy, and his 35-year-old mistress, Shin Jeong-ah.
For strange and unexplained reasons, the reporting on the scandal somehow disappeared completely from the newspapers and television while Roh was visiting the North, even though the case was far from being resolved. Some say the prosecution was apparently silenced by the Roh administration in order that the people�s attention could be drawn exclusively to the so-called �historic� inter-Korean summit. ... |
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