Category: China

August 28, 2020

China’s Ministry of Public Security Hosts Training of Senior South Korean Police Officers at the Chinese Criminal Police Academy

2019-11-20, Asia News Agency [TRANSLATION] Ten Police officers, including Kang Seok-hyun (강석현), the Director of Foreign Affairs at the Incheon Police Agency, trained in China. [Note: Kang has since been...

Categories China/Police/South Korea/Translation of Korean News

June 27, 2020

A Young Man Found Guilty for Placing Posters Critical of President Moon at a University Campus

2020-6-23, Chosun Ilbo  [TRANSLATION] A man in his 20s who was accused of “breaking and entering” was fined after attaching posters criticizing President Moon Jae-in at a university campus. On...

Categories Abuse of Authority/Censorship/China/Lawfare/Moon Jae-in/Rule of Law/Translation of Korean News

June 14, 2020

The Republic of Korea’s Rigged Elections and Its Implications on the World Order, Letter from former Ambassadors, Vice Minister

2020-6-10, Former South Korean ambassadors and vice minister (see below for signatories) The letter below is a plea for an international intervention in the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) 2020 general...

Categories China/Elections/Rule of Law/South Korea/Statements from Korean groups

June 11, 2020

Samsung in Crisis, Moon Government’s Takeover Attempts and China Threat; Impact on Global 5G, COVID-19 Treatments, World Economy, and South Korea’s Liberal Democracy

2020-6-11, Tara O Key points: Samsung is in crisis due to several years of South Korean government’s aggressive and unreasonable investigations against the company and the Vice Chairman Lee Jae-Yong,...

Categories China/Communism/Druking/Economy/Impeachment/Labor Union/Lawfare/Liberal Democracy/Moon Jae-in/Nationalization/Rule of Law/Socialism/South Korea/Subversion

May 13, 2020

The Arrest of Yet Another Journalist (Sung Sang-hoon) for Saying “Maybe He Died of Coronavirus”; More Suppression of YouTubers Expected

2020-5-13, Tara O Sung Sang-hoon (성상훈), a journalist who runs the Global Defense News (글로벌디펜스뉴스) YouTube channel and website, was arrested and jailed on May 13, 2020.   His “crime” was...

Categories Censorship/China/Defectors/Lawfare/Wuhan Virus

May 4, 2020

Confucius Institutes in South Korea Promote Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda

2020-5-2, Dong-a Ilbo [Translation] “Mao Ze Dong is someone who brings happiness to the Orient.” No Confucius in the Confucius Institute Propaganda of the communist system, distorted history Children’s teaching...

Categories China/Communism/Disinformation/Education/Socialism/South Korea/Subversion/Translation of Korean News

April 13, 2020

Chinese Fishing Vessels’ Giant Trawl Nets, Twice the Length of the 63 Building, Discovered in the Seas near Jeju Island

2020-4-10, News1 [Translation] The South Korean Coast Guard continued to discover and destroy gigantic trawl nets placed illegally by Chinese fishing vessels [in the waters near Jeju Island]. The fish...

Categories China/Defense/Economy/Food/South Korea/Translation of Korean News

April 10, 2020

Almost Secret: China’s Extensive Belt and Road Initiative, Nearly 30 Chinatowns in South Korea

2020-4-10, Tara O When discussing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, often, nothing is shown on the map for South Korea in major press reporting; however, China’s Belt and Road Initiative...

Categories China/Defense/Elections/Security/South Korea/Subversion

April 5, 2020

A Tale of Two Models: Taiwan and South Korea in the Handling of the Coronavirus Pandemic

2020-4-5, Tara O As SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus originating from Wuhan, spreads throughout the world, press reporting highlights some Asian countries as models for handling the coronavirus situation.  Numerous western reports...

Categories China/Coronavirus/South Korea/Wuhan Virus

March 26, 2020

Sex Scandal, Sewol Ferry, and Politics in South Korea

Tara O, 2020-3-26 A sex scandal involving a woman volunteer and two men, who are fathers to the students who perished on the Sewol Ferry (세월호) are top search items...

Categories China/Demonstrations/Impeachment/Labor Union/Lawfare/Moon Jae-in/Scandal/South Korea