Broadcaster Kim Je-dong poses at a press conference for the KBS current affairs talk show’Tonight Kim Je-dong’ held at a cafe in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of September 12 last year. yunhap news
Broadcaster Kim Je-dong resumed official activities after publishing a new book after two years, and a review criticizing his book was deleted, which is controversial.
According to the publishing industry on the 22nd, a netizen posted a critical review of Kim Je-dong’s book, The Moment When Questions Are Answered, through an internet bookstore. He said, “Our selective anger, Kim Je-dong, has returned. He who keeps silence amidst the absurdities of all kinds of society after the change of government. He who endures this contradiction is a true Kaesimin”
“After a long time, he showed his face to the public. It wasn’t to criticize the skyrocketing house prices, not to raise suspicions of nuclear power plants, or to raise questions about vaccines. Yes. He wrote a book. Much more than a carpenter’s hammering.” Let’s meet his valuable typewriter tapping,” he wrote.
However, the review was soon deleted, and the netizen posted the same post again saying’the review has been deleted’. Accordingly, users are raising a question, asking why they deleted critical reviews. One user criticized, “It’s not like there’s swearword, but are you censoring reviews now?”
The Internet bookstore said, “If it is judged that the review contains content that is not related to the book or has abusive language, there is a blind treatment. This is a book that is being sold by subscription, so users may not have seen it yet, but it was written only as a personal opinion about the author, so it was blinded. I did it,” he explained.
『The Moment When Questions Are Answered』 began pre-sale on the 2nd of this month and is scheduled to be officially published on the 25th. It is said that Kim Je-dong met 7 experts in each field and conveyed his regards to us who will live in the world after the coronavirus. Kim Je-dong and the close broadcaster Yoo Jae-seok and singer Lee Hyori wrote recommendations.
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