A South Korean judge ruled Monday that a blogger arrested after criticizing government economic policies was not guilty of spreading false information, the latest step in the country’s struggle to balance freedom of speech with the potentially damaging effects of anonymous online postings.In his ruling, Seoul Central District Judge Yu Young-hyun found that Park Dae-sung, a 30-year-old unemployed man from Seoul who posted opinion pieces about economics on a Korean Web site under the pseudonym “Minerva,” didn’t write to “intentionally harm the public interest.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124020587524334285.htmlSouth Korean blogger cleared of spreading false information
A South Korean court today acquitted a blogger charged with spreading false information on the internet under a mysterious pseudonym, in a high-profile case that sparked heated debate over freedom of speech in cyberspace.Park Dae-sung, 30, an unemployed Seoul resident, was acquitted by the Seoul central district court. Judge Yoo Young-hyeon said he could not see that Park “had the intention to undermine public interest” or that he “realised the contents of the articles in question that he wrote were completely false”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/20/south-korea-blogger-park
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