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January 28, 2019

Moon Jae-in a Founding Member of Hankyoreh Newspaper

2019-1-28, Tara O Moon Jae-in was a founding member and a shareholder of Hankyoreh Media Group (publishes Hankyoreh newspaper), according to Song In-bae (송인배), who gave a lecture on May...

Categories Media/People/Leadership

January 25, 2019

Hwang Jang-soo’s News Briefing on YouTube Malfunctioning, Hacking?

2019/1/23, Hwang Jang-soo News Briefing (황장수의 뉴스브리핑) [Hwang Jang-soo currently has 326,000 subscribers.] A total of five types of news briefings that I uploaded today on YouTube…have become very inconvenient...

Categories Media/Translation of Korean News

January 25, 2019

Moon Jae-in Government’s Problem of Broadcast Control and the Oppression of the KBS Board Member KAHNG Gyoo-hyoung (강규형); 문재인 정부의 방송장악 과정의 문제점과 KBS강규형 이사 탄압

2018/12/2, Kahng Gyoo-hyoung KAHNG Gyoo-hyoung (Kahng is the last name) is a professor at Myongji University and a former Board Member of the Board of Governors, KBS (Korean Broadcasting System)....

Categories Censorship/Lawfare/Media/Purge

January 21, 2019

A Court Fined a retired Admiral, Shim Dong-Bo, who Pulled Down Women-Offending “Park Geun-hye Nude Painting”

2019-1-11, PennMike Retired Admiral Shim Dong-Bo received a guilty verdict and a fine for tearing down the sexually belittling nude painting of former president Park Geun-hye, which was “openly” displayed...

Categories People/Leadership/Politics/Translation of Korean News

January 21, 2019

President Moon Appoints Im Jong-seok as Special Envoy to the UAE…Han Byung-do as Special Envoy to Iraq

2019-1-21, Mediapen President Moon Jae-in appointed the former Chief of Staff Im Jong-seok (임종석) and the former Senior Secretary for Presidential Affairs Han Byung-do (한병도) as Special Envoys to the...

Categories People/Leadership/Translation of Korean News

January 21, 2019

Will KBS Wake Up when It Is Forced to Shut Down?

2019/1/20, Kahng Gyoo-hyoung’s Column What is the report that 4 members of the National Union of Media Workers control KBS? KBS tries to resume purges through the Audit and Inspection...

Categories Censorship/Lawfare/Media/Purge/Translation of Korean News

January 21, 2019

North Korea May be Deploying the Latest Surface-to-Air Missile Near Haeju, North Korea

2019-1-17, Shin In-gyun’s National Defense TV North Korea may be deploying its latest Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM) to a location close to the Seoul Metropolitan area.  In the South-North Military Agreement,...

Categories North Korea/Security/Translation of Korean News

January 14, 2019

South Korea’s Youth Group Supports the U.S.-ROK Alliance and the U.S. Military Presence in South Korea

The majority of South Koreans support the U.S.-ROK (Republic of Korea) alliance and the presence of the U.S. military in South Korea.  The older generation has expressed this view through...

Categories Alliance

January 12, 2019

Controversy over a Journalist’s Question to Moon: Not changing the economic policy despite people having difficulties. Where does such confidence come from?

2019-4-24 Updated. Tara O The YouTube video in this article disappeared. So here’s a photo. 2019-1-12, Tara O President Moon Jae-in held a New Year’s press conference at the Blue...

Categories Media/People/Leadership

January 9, 2019

The Moon Administration Agreed to Provide Enough Swiss-made Tamiflu for 200,000 People to North Korea…The suspicion of ‘Easy Monetization by North Korea’

2019-1-9, PennMike The Moon administration agreed to North Korea’s demand for South Korea to provide Tamiflu enough for 200,000 people’s worth using South Korea’s South-North Cooperation Fund. The domestic pharmaceutical...

Categories Sanctions/Translation of Korean News