Obscene confusion
The prosecution in the case of Ma Kwang-soo, a literature professor who was indicted in 2006 for posting obscene materials on his personal website, is now seeking guidelines for what constitutes obscenity.
The allegedly obscene postings on his Kwangma Club website include an explicit picture of a man and a woman and his sexually explicit novel Happy Sarah, which led to his imprisonment for obscenity in 1995.
When he was indicted in November, Ma said that he could not understand the standards the prosecution used to judge literary obscenity. “I thought legal standards had changed, as more than 10 years have passed since ‘Happy Sarah’ was ruled illegal by the court,” he said.
This led to the prosecution belatedly scurrying off to compare the case with other literary obscenity cases, thus extending the investigation.
Sunday 11 Feb 2007 | Paul | South Korea
