Thoughts on My Blogger Neighborhood

It is the Ist of June here in Korea (Republic of). The blog date might be the 31th of May, right? I've finished moving to this new place thanks to the Google Company. I appreciate all these conveniences and comforts Google has given me.


Accept my greetings, dear my bloggger neighbors. I am so curious that I make it a rule to have a look around your places, peeping through windows from time to time. You must have noticed my trespasses, haven't you? Because most of you neighborhood bloggers must be computer wizards, which I am not.


I am still kept in the dark about everything from electronic languages to all the signs and symbols. All I can do is boot up and click this or that and log in this blog pages led by competent guides. I am such a pathetic lot. Pity on me, my dear neighbors.


The season of June. Here in Seoul it rains nearly every other day, drizzles, that is. Days are hot and nights are cool. Concern and worry foreshadow the Seoul landscape. Why? Inundation and evacuation in this summer are weather forecasters' ominous predictions. I pray I might not be washed away by the flood.


Have you heard about the Media War going on here in Korea? The war between the liar established press and the President and his government? The media of Korea is not a Fourth Estate anymore! It is a super power surpassing the other Three Branches of Government!


The shift of power is really intriguing from modest news-reporting organs to power-wielding organizations. The office buildings of major newspapers and broadcasting stations are imposing in every aspect of features and their staff members are profitably effective.


Brazen lies, including distortion of facts, frame-up of stories, are really rife with the Korean press. A week ago, a political desk reporter named Ms. Lee Mi Sook of the Munhwa Ilbo (www.munhwa.co.kr) had truncated the major part of the Presidential address made on the 25th of May in celebration of the launching of the King Sejong the Great, a Korean-version Aegis Destroyer and run the red lie article, which ran counter to the real speech, over which the online population had expressed ire and denounced the brazenness of the reporter. We wondered how that was possible under the bright Sun in this Internet Era?