Korean Blog Media I: Preface

Preface: Nature of Media in South Korea and how it will affect this blog.

Despite the explosion of the media since the beginning of the early 2000s (aided, in part, by the South Korea’s aggressive building of internet capability by the liberal Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Moo-Hyun presidency) the reality of media in South Korea is in many ways, not that dissimilar to their American counterpart.

Among the frustration that I as, an expatriate Korean feeling toward my country is the lack of what I feel is the independent voices in foreign affairs/foreign policy.  In matters that are not directly connected to its well being, traditional media of South Korea is still too close to being standard, (almost unquestioning) position taken by the establishment: that is to say, pro-American, pro-Chabol (the Great Conglomerate) and pro-Capitalism. The goal of this blog in the next five week is to find if there exists a valid, alternative voice in the Korea’s media. Andif it does, what that is.

Tomorrow's post will deal with the brief explanation with the sources I will be using and their limitations before moving to the actual postings.