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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I regret to have to update my earlier posting of October 14,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>with the dismaying news that yesterday South Korea's
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Constitutional Court upheld the military's right to ban
books.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>See the article below, from today's <EM>JoongAmg
Ilbo</EM>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>So unless the Ministry of National Defence comes to its
senses,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>one of Korea's best-known economists will remain
blacklisted.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>This is both ludicrous and disgraceful. It is also bad
publicity, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>with Seoul about to host the G20 Summit on November
11-12.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>What can one do?</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Honorary Senior Research
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A href="http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927688">http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2927688</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, arial, t¹¼, gulim; LETTER-SPACING: -1px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 24px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" id=articleTitle class=actit>Military book banning
upheld</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 8px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 14px" class=px14><STRONG>Court says public benefit as important as private in
national security</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" align=right>October 29, 2010</DIV></TD></TR>
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<TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; LINE-HEIGHT: 23px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, arial, t¹¼, gulim; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 16px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" id=articleBody class=actxt>The Constitutional Court yesterday dismissed a
2008 appeal against the Ministry of National Defense for its rule labeling
some books as ideologically impermissible and banning soldiers from
keeping them in military barracks.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>Among the books is an
economics publication by a well-known mainstream Korean professor who is
at the University of Cambridge.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>The ruling may reignite
an old controversy in South Korea over how much the public should tolerate
criticism of the government - while holding in check the communist North -
when it comes to freedom of thought.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>The court said that the
public benefit from national security is no less important than the
private benefit, which is the right to know for individuals.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>Seven law officers in the
military filed a petition with the Constitutional Court in October 2008
against a clause of the military rule, saying the rule infringes on the
basic right to know.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>The 2nd Article of the
16th Clause of the military discipline rule stipulates that soldiers may
not produce, copy, keep, transport or acquire subversive documents, books
or any other means of expression, and to report immediately to the
military authority when they acquire them.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>Three months earlier, the
ministry classified 23 books, including a book written by Chang Ha-joon,
as “subversive books” and prevented soldiers from bringing the books into
military bases.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>Chang’s book “Bad
Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism,”
published in 2008, warns against unregulated international trade, but
according to some scholars, not in a way that denies the principle of free
market economy itself.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>North Korea, which is the
South’s “main enemy,” promotes itself as a communist country.<BR><BR>The
ministry defended itself, saying the designation of “subversive books” is
in accordance with a customary interpretation of the military law
considering the uniqueness of the military and does not constitute an
infringement on basic rights.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>The ministry discharged
two of its seven law officers in March of last year for not resorting to a
proposal through the command line in the military to solve the problem
before the petition. The other military lawyers lost one month’s salary,
were suspended for five days and were reprimanded or given a warning.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>By Moon Gwang-lip
[joe@joongang.co.kr]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>_________________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 10/14/2010 17:45:16 GMT Daylight Time,
Afostercarter@aol.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT color=#000000 size=4 face="Book Antiqua">
<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I think and hope the name and work of <STRONG>Ha-Joon
Chang</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>will be known to many on these lists.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Currently teaching in Cambridge (the original one),
he</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>is one of the most interesting economists alive
today.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>At a time when capitalism manifestly isn't working
well,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>his heterodox views are all the more important to
hear.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>He has a new website: <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated title=http://www.hajoonchang.net/ href="http://www.hajoonchang.net/">www.hajoonchang.net</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>which is an good place to get to know his work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Don't miss his vivid account of growing up in a poorer
Korea:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A title="http://www.hajoonchang.net/downloads/Bad Samaritans Prologue.pdf" href="http://www.hajoonchang.net/downloads/Bad%20Samaritans%20Prologue.pdf"><FONT size=3>http://www.hajoonchang.net/downloads/Bad%20Samaritans%20Prologue.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>This would be an excellent text to give to students also.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Unbelievably, in 2008 some of his books were blacklisted by
the</DIV>
<DIV>ROK military from conscripts' reading, as supposedly seditious!</DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html href="http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html">http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I don't know whether this idiotic and shameful ban is still in
place,</DIV>
<DIV>or if MND has now seen sense. (Of course, it only boosted sales.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best wishes</DIV>
<DIV>Aidan FC</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3>Aidan
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Honorary Senior Research
Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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