Government Investigating Who Put Up Posters Critical of President Moon

This is another example that there is not freedom of speech in South Korea:

In this photo, provided by a reader, a bulletin board at a university in Mokpo, in South Jeolla Province, bears a North-Korean style poster on March 31, 2019. (Yonhap)

 Police said Monday they began a preliminary probe into North Korean-style posters that appeared on walls at several universities nationwide lampooning the current Moon Jae-in government over its key policies. 
The National Police Agency said it is gathering facts on a number of 112 calls made since Saturday with regard to the anti-government posters found hanging on bulletin boards at least 30 colleges in Seoul, Busan, Gangwon, as well as the southern Gyeongsang and Jeolla regions. 
“We will see if the content of the posters carry expressions that can be deemed defamation or contempt,” a NPA official said. 
The 55-by-80 centimeter, two-page poster, entitled “A Letter to South Korean Students,” blasts President Moon Jae-in’s key policies, such as income-led growth, his push to phase out nuclear power and the policy of engagement with North Korea. 
The poster is printed in the unique typeface North Korea often uses in its propaganda and appears intended as ridicule of the government. 
It calls for the overthrow of the liberal Moon administration and ends with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s signature, by his official title as chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission. 
The DPRK stands for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 
The poster, claiming to be written by Jeondaehyup, calls for students to join a massive rally slated for Saturday at a public park near Seoul’s Hyewha Station. 
Jeondaehyup is an abbreviation for the now-disbanded hard-line national student activists’ association that led key democracy movements in the 1980s. The association had been attacked by South Korea’s conservative bloc for its pro-North Korea tendencies.

Yonhap

The Moon administration has been very active squelching freedom of speech in South Korea, but remember that the prior Park administration took legal action against political posters as well. However, a loop hole is to call a political poster a work of art and then it is apparently legal.

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

2 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
ChickenHead
ChickenHead
5 years ago

Korea has gone through 25+ years of feeling like the government was working for the betterment of the people and the advancement of the country within the world.

Many Koreans are not feeling that now.

It breaks my heart to see the government working hard to suppress harmless free speech instead of the million other things which could be done to better the country and help the people.

setnaffa
5 years ago

Sounds like Moon is worried about the Park/Lee treatment…

2
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x