SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling party lawmaker has come under fire for a leaked mobile messenger conversation that opposition lawmakers claimed corroborates the ruling party’s censorship of the press. Press cameras captured a screenshot of a Telegram conversation between Rep. Yoon Young-chan of the Democratic Party (DP) and an unknown person during [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A visiting Japanese curator on Thursday called for worldwide efforts to fight growing art censorship in Japan and resume the exhibition of a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery at an international arts festival in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Yuka Okamoto, who [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The existence of a “black list” censoring South Korean artists has been confirmed. Under the Park Geun-hye administration, thousands of artists, including filmmakers and actors, were blacklisted for supporting agendas that went against the opinions of the central government. Condemning the act of censorship and the suppression of freedom [...]