Netizens flood CNN comfort women survey

Korean netizens screwing up another online survey [Chosun Ilbo, English] on an international site.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on March 9, 2007 at 9:36 am, filed under Asides, East and Central Asia, Japan, Korean History, South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Seth Gecko

Posted March 9, 2007 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

You should have put a hyper-link to the online survery that voted “Rain” as “the most influential in the entertainment industry” (or something to that effect).
wjk

Posted March 9, 2007 at 3:29 pm | Permalink

survey accurately portrays US or world sentiment regarding the matter. Outside of East Asia, most people don’t have a personal beef with Japan. I think.

I don’t think the Japanese are soley responsible for messing with a meaningless CNN poll, that has a shelflife for one or two news stories.
ZZOOzzoo

Posted March 9, 2007 at 7:17 pm | Permalink

@Seth Gecko:
It was just one of 100 most influential people. The list is chosen ultimately by the editors of Time, I believe.

I thought it was ridiculous that Time chose him as one of the most influential people, but considering that Rain’s arguably the most popular male artist in Asia right now and Time probably had to include some Asian guys other than Kim Jong-Il, I guess that’s understandable.
mateomiguel

Posted March 12, 2007 at 11:45 am | Permalink

Can the Chosun Ilbo stop reporting what random netizens say online as legitimate news? I don’t consider what happens on the Great Online Hallucination to affect the real world very much. Why does Korea take the Internet so seriously?

Or, can they at least pick someone with a cooler user name? Terran_killa_666 was reported as saying, “Japan sucks!” while hi2ukekekeke said, “Happy rainbows!”

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