<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Let's not get overly excited. This ban applies only to soldiers on military installations. They can read/keep/shred/buy/sell/study/burn the book anywhere else they wish, no problem. Anyway, it's unlikely the book would be terribly popular in the ranks. With any luck, they should be able to manage without it in the barracks, trenches, foxholes etc. while eagerly anticipating the fun of thumbing the pages while on leave.</DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Don Kirk<BR></DIV>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>What can one do?</FONT></DIV>
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<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, 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>
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/14/2010 17:45:16 GMT Daylight Time, Afostercarter@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues, </FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.hajoonchang.net</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>which is an good place to get to know his work.</FONT></DIV>
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<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" rel=nofollow target=_blank><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>
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<DIV>Unbelievably, in 2008 some of his books were blacklisted by the</DIV>
<DIV>ROK military from conscripts' reading, as supposedly seditious!</DIV>
<DIV>http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>Best wishes</DIV>
<DIV>Aidan FC</DIV>
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