Censored and censored again
According to The Melon Farmers, an online video provider in Korea has been ordered to pay a 7 million won ($7,000) fine for distributing obscene video files. These films had already been reviewed and rated by he Korea Media Rating Board (KMRB), but the court decided to overrule them.
Critics said the judges did not take into account the files’ approval by the rating authority. The Seoul Central District Court imposed the fines on the video provider, identified as Kim, for providing the videos which contain “explicit’’ sexual acts between a woman and a man through the online portal sites.
A panel of judges said that the 30-40 minute-long videos, consisting of 12 pieces, have no meaningful story. They star a woman and a man who engage in sexual conversation without any prior contact, with repeated erotic sounds from the start to finish, thus having no artistic merit
So, in South Korea, you don’t know if you’ll be breaking the law until you’ve broken it.
Monday 13 Feb 2006 | Paul | South Korea
