Sunday, August 31, 2008

Freedom of Speech?

On August 26, a liberal scholar was arrested for "propagating socialism" in South Korea. Evidently it is actually against the law here to denounce capitalism because it is seen as a national security threat. I was just a slightly astounded to read this. I guess I just assumed that because I was living in a democracy, people would be allowed to have have their own opinions about politics, but I guess I was wrong. Fortunately the professor was released today because of a lack of evidence against him, but the police will continue their investigation.
For more information, you can read this article in the Korea Times: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/08/113_30227.html

Does anyone out there have any more info on this topic?

2 comments:

  1. Wow, with the U.S. election/media situation and stuff like this in supposed democratic S. Korea, I'm becoming more and more worried about the global development of liberal values.

    Thanks for posting this.

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  2. And there's a bit more info on Prof. Oh here:
    http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=7162

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