Censoring Censorship in China
Written byOiwan Lam
The above screen capture of a local news brief has gone viral on Chinese social media yesterday. It said: “Recently Myanmar has unblocked Facebook, the world's most popular social media website. Now only four countries in the world still blocked Facebook, including South Korea, Cuba, Iran and another country.” Other countries is a coded term for China.
Written byOiwan Lam
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Doesn’t 朝鮮 mean North Korea? not South Korea.
I think 朝鲜 is North Korea and 韩国 is South Korea
Yes. I also think that 朝鮮 means North Korea and there’s no problem in using Facebook in S. Korea.