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

[Philip Gowman]

An argumentum ex silentio is a poor one, but when I wrote a
very lightweight article recently about who’s who in the Korean blogosphere, the
comments I got back were more focused on the merits or otherwise of the
foreigner-run blogs than whether there were any good Korean-run ones. I had a
Korean American as a guest blogger for a while, which was very interesting in a
number of ways, but it didn’t seem to last.
 
The only Korean-run blog I visit is Seoul Searcher –
who I think is Korean but who I think is now in China. http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-rVlK2bQyc6lF6h2M2.4-?cq=1

The Korean blog list catalogues 24 blogs by Koreans in Korea (http://www.koreanbloglist.com/blogs_kik.php) and 106 by Koreans overseas...

 
Philip


----- Original Message ----
From: J.Scott Burgeson <jsburgeson at yahoo.com>
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Sent: Saturday, 23 August, 2008 3:08:54 AM
Subject: Re: [KS] Are there any Korean bloggers writing in English, for a global readership?

--- 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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