According to the Korea Herald, a Seoul Court has convicted 14 S. Koreans of illegaly exporting weapons related technology to Myanmar.
The Seoul Central District Court fined Lee Tae-yong, a former head of Daewoo International Corp., 50 million won ($54,550) for violating laws on exports and technology leaks, according to court official Park Hyun-ju. Ten other businessmen were fined up to that amount for similar charges, she said.
The other three men received suspended prison terms of between two and three years for related charges such as illegally obtaining strategic technology from a government-run think tank, she said.
The 14 men, whoworked for seven Korean defense contractors, were indicted in December on charges of having secretly exported materials and technology to help Myanmar manufacture six types of artillery shells between 2002 and 2006 under a $133 million deal with the Southeast Asian country’s state arms procurement agency.
Sorry, I couldn’t link the article, but the Korea Herald doesn’t allow right mouse clicks on their page.
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IHT has it
Go here, it’s the print view, it’s better because it has no ads.
#1.
Thanks for the IHT link.
#2.
Didn’t occur to me to click on the “Print” menu. Now I know. Thanks.
No prob, aparently, their site programmer forgot about that too.
I’ve noticed Korean sites like to do this a lot, and most use a frame as an added layer of protection from javascript that can get around it… if you go here, you bypass frame completely:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/kherald.asp
Having done that you will also get the main url when you click on the article:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/N.....150080.asp
and after going to the last page, if you still need to right click, enter this into where the URL is and press enter:
javascript: document.write(document.body.outerHTML.replace(/on/g, ”));
there are lots of different ways to do this, but most of them are beautiful pieces of code that work only for one specific way of disabling right click. However, my way is more like taking a shotgun to the code, but it gets the job done 90% of the time!
These people should have received prison terms for this instead of such a paltry fine. These judges are despicable and should be investigated themselves.
#6: Although this is repulsive, you have to understand that by Korean thinking this isn’t so bad, therefore no hoosegow time. Which means it’ll probably happen again.
. . . which is why the judge should have made and example of these bums. They are the worst sort of sub-humans who would do this kind of deed. If I were to ever catch one of them, I would cut their throat and it would be better justice than the judge served.
Those Koreans “were just trying to feed their families”, in the eyes of fellow Koreans… That mentality is changing now, but it’ll still be awhile before it’s a noticable change in cases like these.
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