So… perhaps there’s more to the NIS agent accusations after all

by Robert Koehler on January 4, 2013

Mind you, they’ve yet to discover evidence that she left any comments anywhere. But investigators have managed to confirm she did press “like” or “dislike” 288 times on 269 posts at a particularly website (which was apparently a progressively oriented humor site). Of these, 94 of the posts dealt with the election. And she did this using 16 IDs registered with emails accounts with Yahoo Korea, so no Korean ID numbers were used. To some, this reeks of an organized effort, although to Yours Truly, it seems more like your garden variety sock puppet.

Tagged as: NIS

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 mightymouse January 5, 2013 at 12:44 am: Apparently the opposition have yet to pick up tips from US elections in demanding a recount.
2 Kuiwon January 5, 2013 at 6:12 am: Is it possible that they do an investigation on who cleaned up Lee Jung Hee’s English Wikipedia page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jung-hee
3 Anonymous_Joe January 5, 2013 at 1:55 pm: I don’t know that recounts can really apply. The voting districts were so lopsided in voting overwhelmingly for PGH or MJI that a few percent would not sway.

Of course, Korea does not have an electoral college system but a straight up popular vote. The potential for regionalism, as exhibited in Korea, was the reason the founding padres instituted the electoral college.
4 Anonymous_Joe January 5, 2013 at 2:00 pm: Is it possible that they do an investigation on who cleaned up Lee Jung Hee’s English Wikipedia page?

Cleaned up???

From Wikipedia,

She was one of the candidates for the South Korean 2012 presidential election and arguably being considered as North Korean spy by a number of South Koreans for her political, civilian actions that similarily resemble the political statements made by the government of North Korea.

Looks more like trashed. Salman? Salman? Salman?
5 Kuiwon January 5, 2013 at 9:04 pm: I guess the new edits are more subtle than the previous.
6 SalarymaninSeoul January 6, 2013 at 10:35 am: Oh. if I were to do it you can bet it would be much worse than that:)

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