News Source: United Press International
| 10 months ago
An online blogger identified only as "Minerva" disturbed currency values in South Korea to a point that a $2 billion stimulus was needed, prosecutors allege. Prosecutors said Monday in Seoul Central District Court that the individual operating under...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
Among governments struggling to contain the global financial crisis, South Korea set a rare and controversial example over the weekend by arresting a popular blogger who was accused of undermining the financial markets but worshipped by many Koreans...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
Staff Reporter South Korean authorities are growing more serious over whether ― and how ― they're going to punish popular online guru Minerva after arresting him last Wednesday for spreading false information. But for foreigners and overseas...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 10 months ago
Staff Reporter The arrest of a wildly popular Internet financial pundit, better known as ``Minerva," is raising new questions about Korea's Internet culture and pitfalls of anonymous online postings. Last Thursday, Korean authorities announced that...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
A Seoul court Saturday allowed prosecutors to detain an Internet pundit whose prophetic comments about the South Korean economy have won him a wave of supporters disenchanted with the government, Yonhap News reported. Prosecutors Friday apprehended...
News Source: Belleville News-Democrat
| 10 months ago
A South Korean blogger pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges that he spread false economic information on the Internet, a news report said, in a case that drew heated debate over freedom of speech. The blogger, identified only by his surname Park,...