Kim Hye-jin of Globalvoicesonline.org has an interesting report on an attempt at censoring books that seems to have backfired:
the Ministry of National Defense (MND) in Korea categorized 23 books as threatening books and decided to forbid those books in libraries in the army units because they could ruin soldiers’ minds. Since the announcement, it led to an interesting reaction –- sales of those books have been increasing fast among common people.
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That’s hilarious!!! I was LMAO at some of those netizen comments. Good job, all around, including the National Defense guys.
i guess the ministry doesn’t know the mythical tale about pandora’s box.
Ruining their minds? I thought that was the job of the Korean Education System. Take a bunch of clueless kids and mould their minds into Dokdo Loving, Japan Hating, any thing foreign disrespecting, Korea is Number 1, Nationalistic, MindNumbing, Nazi, Racist Morons.
Not surprising the military would try to control its troops’ reading material, since they try to control every aspect of life for people in the service. But it would be much better to take, say “American Solders’ Crimes and SOFA” and assign the troops to read it, then discuss Korea’s own SOFA’s with other countries and have them learn the similarities in these arrangements rather than have the retarded “progressive” slant on them be domininant in Korea.
Same with ones like “Why is 80% controlled by 20%?” (which sounds like some Marxism 101). Have the troops read that and discuss why “capitalism is the worst system except for all the rest,” along with why in North Korea 100% is controlled by 1%. This could be an excellent reading list.
Just bureaucrats with bugs up their asses being bureaucrats with bugs up their asses.
Surprise!