Why did the Korean government arrest Minerva?
Korea’s “Internet economic president”, or the doomsayer Minerva got arrested in Jan. 10, 2009. Puzzled Korean Internet users are trying to figure out why.
- Was it because Minerva revealed national secrets that KOSPI would go down to 500 and won-dollar exchange rate would soar soon, I mean, obviously?
- Was it because Korean president Lee Myung-bak was afraid that Minerva was more popular than he was?
- So was it because his pride got seriously damaged and he wanted to get a revenge on him?
- Or was it because President Lee Myung-bak wanted Minerva to give his dump economic strategists some crash course trainings?
- Was it because Minerva “disdained” not only “King Lee” but Lehman Brothers? How dare you speak ill of such a great company of the US?
- Was it because the Lee government’s officers were wondering how Koreans would react when they told them to shut up?
- Maybe, it was because the trend comes and goes. Remember the 80′s of Korea, when people were secretly sent to jail or Samchungdae with ridiculous reasons?
So, what did Koreans learn from this ridiculous arrest? We all should learn something, right?
It’s hard not to leave comments when you surf the Internet. But now Koreans know the tricks. They just need to make sure that they add these remarks:
“I didn’t write this, Not original! I just copied it from somewhere else. Don’t arrest me!!!”
“I don’t have any intention to scare people or to cause any kind of intelligent discussion!”
Or being a bright netizen, hide your IP address by using proxy servers, vpn, tunneling or international IP laundry sites. It’s not 100% guaranteed but it will probably work. Isn’t it amazing to see how the government can change people?
[...] they went into the bunker, they started to strangle Koreans, I mean, ordinary Koreans, such as Minerva who merely expressed his idea and opinions about the country’s economy on the Internet or teachers who wanted their students to have real education, not test-is-everything-type [...]