The atmosphere is intensifying controversy over Manpyeong, the Daegu daily newspaper that caricatures the 5.18 democratization movement. Some point out that this is not the first time that the media’s democratization movement was disregarded.
<매일신문>On the 18th, ‘Maeil Hee-pyeong’ carried a picture of armed soldiers, named for the construction fee and property tax levies, beating ‘one dwellers exceeding 900 million’ with sticks. It is a criticism of the Moon Jae-in administration’s real estate measures, saying that it is not the concept of land disclosure, but is’land dictatorship’.
It is a copy of the airborne troops beating innocent Gwangju citizens with a club during the 5.18 Democratization Movement.
On social media such as Facebook and Twitter, voices such as “How on earth can Daegu regional newspapers look like this in Gwangju?” It’s popping out like that. One journalist said, “Is this freedom of expression, is this freedom of speech? It is terrible to abuse the history of tragedy as a subject of public agitation.”
According to the comics industry, Maeil Hee-pyeong, which has been controversial, is a painting of a’tracing’ method in which the original is copied and copied. It means that you know exactly what the original means and drew it.
For this reason, criticism is also coming out online as’crime-level criticism’. Cartoon critic Paik Kun-woo said, “It is a malicious painting that reminds me of the military officer Chun Doo-hwan who slaughtered the citizens of Gwangju in the name of Manpyeong.” He accused him.
Director Song Hee-il Lee said, “No matter how much it is a right-wing newspaper, there is a thing. Myanmar is so upset, and in a world where the airborne troops who invaded Gwangju in 41 years repent of their own faults. This is the case. Is this what Catholics will do?”
Especially <매일신문>It is argued that this is a newspaper published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu, so that the Pope should also be informed.
<가톨릭뉴스 지금여기> Director Han Sang-bong, who served as editor-in-chief, said on the 20th, “The Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu is darkly covering the entire parish like a ghost without fading at all with the shadows associated with the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.” There is” insisted.
He emphasized, “It is the Daegu Diocese that has supported the Gwangju massacre, the main culprit of the Gwangju massacre, the Maeil Newspaper,” he said.
Last year’s 8.15 rally, Manpyeongdo’water’
Criticism has also been raised that the disapproval of the democracy movement in Korea is habitual. On August 23, last year, Maeil Hee-pyeong captures the scene of a martial law army wearing an armband of a ‘pron-mun’ struck the court that allowed the 8.15 rally with a club. Some pointed out that this can be viewed as a misrepresentation of the 5.18 martial law forces’ atrocities.
The Cheong Wa Dae national petition even appeared on the 19th to punish a newspaper publisher who insulted the 5.18 democratization movement, and is rapidly gaining consent.
Petitioner said, “To criticize the government’s policy, we petition the Maeil Newspaper for legal punishment and apology for posting malicious articles by drawing pictures of the atrocities of the airborne troops during the 5.18 Democratization Movement.”
As the controversy spreads <매일신문>Deleted the review from the online version on the afternoon of the 20th.
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