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Kaesong Death Watch: Fleeing for the Exits

South Korean companies are packing up their equipment and leaving Kaesong while they still can. Even by the Hanky’s low standards, this is an exceptionally dishonest bit of spin.  The reporter tries to place the blame for the exodus on President Lee for joining the PSI, while making only cryptic references to the events that brought that decision about.  But it’s the glaring omissions that are the most striking:  the Hanky makes no mention at all of North Korea blocking access to Kaesong, demanding exhorbitant “wage” increases, or holding one of its factory managers under incommunicado arrest for three months.

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  1. Even by the Hanky’s low standards, this is an exceptionally dishonest bit of spin.

    Trust me, this was nothing. How’s ’bout this?

    Kim Yeon-cheol, the head of Hankyoreh Peace Institute says, “It seems that the Cheong Wa Dae intends to pass the responsibility of the current crisis to North Korea.”

    http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_northkorea/358385.html

    And today, they’re going to cite the SNU professor’s statement yesterday as proof that today’s situation is as serious as April 1960 and June 1987. With a straight face.

  2. I would normally consider that to be a rational and well-supported criticism, but somewhere on the Internet I heard that you make mandu from the ground flesh of Jewish children. ;]]

    PS.  Umm, isn’t this your employer we’re talking about?