[KS] Censorship in democratic Korea

[T.N. Park]

Steven Capener wrote:
> While not directly related to the topic of censorship raised by Brother
> Anthony regarding blocking sites showing the behheading of the Korean citizen,
> it is noteworhty, and worthy of censure, to point out that MBC showed the
> beheading of an American citizen only bothering to blot out the severed head
> as it was held up.

>From Michael Anderson
> I have signed one of the online petitions,
> http://www.petitiononline.com/hole64/petition.html, not as a Yonhap editor of
> course, but out of personal concerns. In addition to stifling free speech, it
> gives the appearance of racism--videos of Nick Berg's murder were widely
> distributed over the Internet here, and even aired on MBC television, while
> the government encouraged blocking of the South Korean national's beheading on
> video. 

There was considerable public outcry against MBC for having shown the Berg
beheading almost in its entirety ...

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200405/200405130057.html

... and the government's media watchdog came down on them. The perhaps
overboard pre-emptive response to video of Kim Sun-il's was a direct result
of that.

T'NP