Mad Bullying Disease라니, 이코노미스트랑 MB랑 또 싸우겠군요.

Mad bullying disease

Apr 2nd 2009 | SEOUL
From The Economist print edition

Press freedom under attack

NORTH KOREA this week detained a South Korean man for criticising Kim Jong Il’s regime and “trying to lure a female North Korean” south. No surprise there. More strikingly, across the border, South Korean prosecutors last week arrested a producer at the country’s second-biggest television station, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), and four union members at a 24-hour TV news channel, YTN.

북한에서 김정일 체제를 비판하고 북측 여성을 꼬시려 했다는 이유로 남한 사람을 붙잡아놓고 있다고는

하지만, 남한에서 벌어지는 일들에 비하면 놀랄 일도 아니라는 식입니다. MBC의 PD를 체포했던 일이나

YTN의 노조원 네 명에 대한 영장을 신청한 건을 비웃고 있네요.


Lee Choon-keun, a producer at South Korea’s best known investigative television programme, PD Notebook, spent 48 hours in jail after a former agriculture minister and his deputy accused the programme of slandering them in April 2008. The programme had asked whether American beef was free from mad-cow disease. The prime minister, Han Seung-soo, says the information was misleading and “led Korea into chaos” by sparking vast street demonstrations against the government’s decision to resume imports of American beef. Arrest warrants are out for five other PD Notebook journalists. Some MBC employees are sleeping in the station’s lobby to prevent police from seizing their videotapes and notes.
 
PD수첩이 광우병(MAD COW DISEASE)에 대한 정보를 오도했고 한국을 대혼란에 빠뜨렸다는 한승수

총리의 말을 인용했는데, 이 기사의 제목은 MAD BULLYING DISEASE입니다. 그리고 이코노미스트는

PD수첩의 보도내용을 깔끔하게 정리하네요. 미국산 소가 광우병에서 안전한지에 대한 물음이라구요.

의도적인/악의적인 오역이니 선전선동이니 거짓이니 말이 많지만, 약간 한국의 어지러운 상황에서

떨어져있는 영국잡지인지라 오히려 핵심이 명료해 보입니다.


At YTN, the leader of its union, Roh Jong-myun, and three others were arrested for obstructing the president, Gu Bon-hong, from entering his office. YTN’s union feared that Mr Gu, who was appointed to his post by the government last year, would undermine the station’s editorial independence. Nearly half the channel’s employees went on strike because of Mr Roh’s detention, though the dispute was settled this week. Amnesty International claims his arrest was part of “an increasingly concerted effort by the government to control South Korea’s media”. It says that last year the heads of four other media groups—the state-owned Korea Broadcasting System (the country’s largest television station), Korean Broadcasting Advertising Corporation, Arirang TV and Sky Life—were replaced by government supporters.

국제사면기구(암네스티)는 한국 정부의 언론통제노력을 심각하게 받아들이고 있는 듯 합니다. 언론에

재갈을 물리고 입맛대로 휘두르려는 정부의 집중된 노력이 점차 강화되고 있다고 하는 표현을 썼네요.

KBS, 한국방송광고공사, 아리랑TV, 스카이라이프까지. 네 개의 언론그룹 수장이 정부인사로

교체되었다고 지적하고 있습니다.


The ruling Grand National Party is now debating whether to make it a crime to post inaccurate or misleading information on the internet. A blogger, Park Dae-sung, was arrested in December after being rude about the government’s economic management. He is still in jail. “Every journalist in South Korea is fearful right now,” says PD Notebook’s Mr Lee.

기자가 이 글을 쓰면서 분명 피식피식 실소를 터뜨렸을 것 같습니다. 혹은 '한국의 민주주의가 꽃피길

기다리느니 쓰레기통에서 장미가 피어나는 게 빠르겠다'란 옛말을 기억했을지 모르겠습니다.

미네르바는 여전히 감옥에 있다, 라고 썼습니다.

국제사회에서 한국의 위상과 브랜드밸류를 떨어뜨리는 놈들은 대체 누구인가요.

부끄럽고, 또 화가 나는 기사였습니다.