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Thank you for all the kind words and well wishes after my ordeal in Korea:
South Korea said on Thursday it had arrested an elusive blogger accused of undermining the country’s financial markets with his doom-mongering, ending a case that has illustrated government unease with the growing influence of online gossip in the world’s most-wired economy.
The case comes amid government efforts to combat negative comments on South Korea’s ailing economy in the media and from private sector economists. The export-dependent economy has been among the hardest hit in Asia by the global financial crisis.
The arrest and possible imprisonment of a web commentator will raise profound questions about freedom of speech in Korea, where bills that would crack down on civil rights are stirring tensions between lawmakers.
I’ll never tell how I got to Korea so quickly from my late afternoon appearance Wednesday in Manhattan, but . . .
Heh heh — thanks Paul . . .
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Source:
Financial blogger arrested in South Korea
Christian Oliver in Seoul
January 8 2009 17:54
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/092a99ca-ddab-11dd-87dc-000077b07658.html
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