November 22nd, 2012 at 3:10 am » Comments (1)

I understand why South Korea has the National Security Law, but I think going after Twitter users is probably a bit extreme: A South Korean man has received a suspended 10-month prison term for retweeting North Korean propaganda posts. The Suwon District Court cited the National Security Law in its ruling Wednesday against Park Jeong-geun. The law prohibits praising and glorifying North Korea. Park could have received seven years in prison. The court says it suspended the prison term partly because Park promised not to repeat his act. It says
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March 8th, 2011 at 4:47 pm » Comments (2)

A few readers have already spotted the site I put up on Facebook, but for those that haven’t you can either “Like” the Fan Page I set up or follow me on my Profile Page: Facebook ROK Drop Fan Page Facebook ROK Drop Profile Page I am going to continue to play around with Facebook and see if I can better integrate it into my blog.  You can also follow me on Twitter which a great number of you already are doing.  You may also notice that I put a
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January 9th, 2011 at 7:15 pm » Comments (4)

I guess the Dear Leader won’t be too happy about this if he even knows what Twitter is: North Korea’s Twitter account was apparently hacked with a string of tweets derogatory of leader Kim Jong-il and his heir Kim Jong-un on Saturday, the birthday of the hereditary successor. The four most recent feeds posted in the morning accused the Kims of exploiting their people to enjoy sumptuous lives, and develop nuclear arms and missiles. One tweet called for an uprising to slay the Kims “with a sword.” “Let’s create a
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November 20th, 2010 at 7:28 pm » Comments (3)

This sentence seems pretty harsh even by Chinese standards: China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for “disrupting social order” by retweeting a satirical message urging Chinese protesters to smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, an international rights group said. Cheng Jianping, 46, re-posted a message from the social networking site Twitter last month hinting that Chinese protesters should smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo and adding on the message “Angry youth, charge!” according to Amnesty International, which condemned the sentence
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September 13th, 2010 at 5:09 pm » Comments (14)

This article is interesting not so much in regards to the captured journalist using Twitter to Tweet his location, but it gives a glimpse on who some of the so called Taliban are: A Japanese freelance journalist freed after a five-month hostage ordeal in Afghanistan says he used Twitter to announce he was still alive under the noses of his captors, who did not understand English. Kosuke Tsuneoka, 41, who had been missing in northern Afghanistan since April, was speaking in Tokyo following his hand-over Saturday to the Japanese embassy
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February 28th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (2)

Via Brian on Twitter.

January 20th, 2010 at 9:54 pm » Comments (3)

This just goes to show that even with a real-name system people will find ways to get around it: Twitter, which has become a powerful tool in expanding Internet-based and mobile communication, has put the South Korean government in an awkward position. On Jan. 18, South Korean Twitter users found a Twitter account for President Lee Myung-bak. Several hundred users registered to “follow” President Lee’s Twitter stream. There is picture of President Lee Myung-bak on the account’s page with links to the Cheong Wa Dae’s (the presidential office in South
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September 11th, 2009 at 5:40 am » Comments (14)

Philip over at London Korean Links has a really good posting up about Twitter and how its use has exploded in the K-blogosphere: If the KCNA has discovered the power of Twitter, tweeting has now gone mainstream in the Klogosphere. Nowadays, no Korean blogger worth his or her salt is without a presence on Twitter. How does Twitter complement the main blog? For me, there’s two main ways:  [London Korean Links] Click the link to read the rest. Without a doubt 2009 has definitely been the year of Twitter and
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July 31st, 2009 at 4:18 pm » Comments (3)

It has been such a short time since the Army reversed course on social media that you would think they would have addressed these security concerns back then: Defense officials are looking into a military-wide ban on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook because of security concerns related to the Internet portals.Tim Madden, spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command’s task force on network operations, said the ban is “under consideration” but no further decisions have been made. Last week, his office distributed a memo to commands worldwide asking for feedback
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June 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm » Comments (2)

Not only has Kim Jong-il gotten into Twitter, but now so has the North Korean media: It’s best known as the place to tell millions what you had for breakfast. But dispatches from North Korea’s state news agency have begun popping up on Twitter. A feed under the name “kcna—dprk” — acronyms of Pyongyang’s state Korean Central News Agency and the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — provides links to hundreds of the agency’s English-language stories. The background of the Twitter page for the feed shows
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