· September, 2009

Stories about South Korea from September, 2009

South Korea: Kids Lack Sleep

Korea beat translated a local news report on a survey about Korean kids’ sleeping time, which is the shortest among the 6 surveyed countries.

30 September 2009

South Korea: Government sued activist with libel

Ohmynews! International has a report on South Korean government libel charge against a prominent activist lawyer Park Wonsoon. Part was charged 200 million won for damages from the National Intelligence...

18 September 2009

South Korea: Protecting children

Matt from Gusts of popular feelings wrote an informative article on the ineffectiveness of certain policies for protecting children and youth.

18 September 2009

South Korea: Prosecution for racist remarks

Korea Beat translated a news story on the country's first prosecution case against a Korean man for using racist remarks towards an Indian, Bonojit Hussein, who is teaching in a...

11 September 2009

China: New real-name requirement

Rebecca MacKinnon from Rconversation discussed the implementation of real name registration in online discussion and pointed out that the system, started from South Korea, is becoming a global trend.

8 September 2009