I don’t know if I would agree with you on this. Full disclosure, I’m certainly not a native Korean, but traveled quarterly to Seoul for five years a little after the end of the Sunshine Policy period for my consulting client and am a big fan of both Demick’s book as well as her current journalism.

Why is there always someone who MUST, just MUST immediately go “oh you think that’s bad well in Arkansas they.....” We do not have it as bad as they do. Not even in Baltimore.

If you can’t parse out the false equivalence between raping a child and suing Gawker then I don’t know what to tell you.

Legally suing a publication and committing a heinous crime are not even comparable. I’m pretty confident raping a child would get you kicked off of the school board/beaten and raped in prison.