[KS] Are there any Korean bloggers writing in English, for a global readership?

[CedarBough T. Saeji]

This is certainly --not-- an academic blog but
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/ is worth a laugh.




On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:08 PM, J.Scott Burgeson <jsburgeson at yahoo.com>wrote:

> --- On Fri, 8/22/08, Ronda Hauben <ronda.netizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OhmyNews International has had some English summaries of
> > what has been
> > happening under the title "This Week in Korea".
> > You can see these in the
> > Korea section of the english edition of OhmyNews
> > International (
> > http://english.ohmynews.com)  and there is a blog
> > democracykorea that also
> > has been posting some summaries.
>
>
> Ms. Hauben--
>   you're very good at plugging OhMyNews but less interested in answering
> readers who ask you to verify your sources, as I did twice earlier this
> summer (regarding the now debunked PD Such'op and your claim that "cows 30
> months of age and older at the time of slaughter are in general not sold for
> food consumption in the US"). I just reread your 8 June 2008 story on the
> anti-beef/Lee protests and was amused when you wrote:
>
>   "At first, the candlelight demonstrations were initiated by middle school
> and high school students..."
>
>   Oh really?
>
>   Later you innocently quote "People's Solidarity for Participatory
> Democracy (PSPD)" as a source for your story, without mentioning that they
> in fact were one of the key organizers of the protests from the start:
>
> http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200806/200806130024.html
>
>   But no, it was midddle school and high school students who "initiated"
> the protests, wasn't it?
>
>   I wonder if the editors at OhMyNews are interested in basic fact
> checking, as well as clamping down on the use of innuendo and distortion to
> push home points, because it seems that some of its reporters are less than
> committed to reporting the truth in a reasonably neutral and objective
> manner.
>
>   One of the crucial lessons of the Korean beef protests of 2008 is that
> democracy cannot be had when there is widespread and flagrant disregard for
> the truth.
>
>   You can keep plugging OhMyNews here if you like, but this is a rigorous
> academic listserve, and simply ignoring people who raise valid questions
> about your work is not going to fool many people here, I think.
>
>   --Scott Bug
>
>
>
>
>


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