South Korea Targets Dissent

일개(?)의 외국언론이 먼 공산국가(또는, 반미외교 스탠스를 가지고 있지 않은)도 아니고 일반 서방국가로 편입되어 있는 국가정부(국가수반)에대해 아주 강도 높은 비판의 사설을 낸 것에 대해 참...이걸 어떻게 받아들여야 하는지 나는 난감하다. 그냥 "거참 지랄들하네"하고 치부하기에는 너무 맞는 말만해서 그렇다.

- 뉴욕타임즈 기사내용-

South Koreans can be as proud of their country’s emergence from dictatorship into a vibrant democracy as they are of the rags-to-riches development that made their country a global industrial powerhouse. So it is alarming that President Park Geun-hye appears intent on backtracking on the democratic freedoms that have made South Korea as different from North Korea’s puppet regime as day is from night. 

Last weekend, tens of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets to protest two repressive government initiatives. One would replace the independently selected history textbooks now available to South Korea’s educators with government-issued textbooks. The other would change labor laws to make it easier for South Korea’s family-controlled business conglomerates to fire workers.
(-항의이유로- 하나는 한국정부가 주도하는 국정화 교과서 문제고, 또 하나는 재벌에 의한 노동자 해고를 용이하게 하는 노동법 개정문제다.)

Ms. Park is also attempting to control criticism and dissent on social media and the Internet. On Saturday, Lee Sir-goo, the co-chief executive of South Korea’s most popular messaging app, stepped down. He is facing criminal charges for failing to prevent teenagers from posting lewd photos, but critics contend the real goal is to punish him for resisting government surveillance efforts and refusing to curb users’ opinions critical of the government.

South Korea’s economy has been hit hard this year by an outbreak of MERS respiratory disease and a slowdown in demand from China and other Asian countries. The biggest risk to South Korea’s reputation abroad, however, is not economic but political, chiefly Ms. Park’s heavy-handed attempts to rewrite history and quash dissent.

나의 논평:
미국 뉴욕 타임즈 편집부의 사설을 한 줄로 말하믄, "독재자 딸년이 지랄한다"가 되겠네. 퇴임도 아닌 현직 외국 대통령에게 "독재자 딸년이 지랄 염병하고 있다"고 직격탄을 날렸다....와....시원.

박근혜 및 현정권은 물론이고

한국내 언론사들도 참으로 부끄러운 줄 알아야.

뜬금없이 끝.