Archive for the 'Propaganda' Category

South Korea’s Brummagem Civil Society

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

A good number of South Koreans seem to confuse democracy with truly mindless mass protesting based on blatantly false information that could easily be debunked but rarely is, at least by South Koreans themselves. The uproar, this time, ostensibly began over bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as Mad Cow Disease, which causes […]

Must Read: GI Korea on The 2002 Armored Vehicle Accident

Friday, June 13th, 2008

GI Korea has an excellent and lengthy post on the background, events, and aftermath of the 2002 accident where a U.S. armored vehicle killed to schoolgirls. I arrived in Korea a few days after the accident, but things didn’t start to heat up until two months later, as I was returning to the States.

North Korean Propaganda Art on Display in London

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Via the Times: “The exhibition features 400 hand-painted posters dating from the peak of the Dear Leader Kim Sung Il’s power in the 1950s to the present regime led by his son, Kim Jong Il.” The article has only one image, but has several interesting propaganda quotes.