월요일, 8월 20, 2001
Kim Dae-jung's uneasy relations with South Korean press underlies arrests of newspaper owners
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14647
By The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — When President Kim Dae-jung led South Korea's political opposition in the mid-1990s, he condemned a government tax audit of major newspapers as a subtle means of pressuring critics of the state.
"The government's interference with the news media is more dogged and shrewder than that" of past military regimes, Kim was quoted as saying at the time, though charges were never filed against the papers.
Now Kim, the 2000 Nobel laureate who won the presidency in 1997, stands accused by opponents of a similar tactic following the arrests Aug. 17 of three prominent newspaper owners: trying to muzzle a critical media with an army of tax inspectors.
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By The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — When President Kim Dae-jung led South Korea's political opposition in the mid-1990s, he condemned a government tax audit of major newspapers as a subtle means of pressuring critics of the state.
"The government's interference with the news media is more dogged and shrewder than that" of past military regimes, Kim was quoted as saying at the time, though charges were never filed against the papers.
Now Kim, the 2000 Nobel laureate who won the presidency in 1997, stands accused by opponents of a similar tactic following the arrests Aug. 17 of three prominent newspaper owners: trying to muzzle a critical media with an army of tax inspectors.
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