{"id":92220,"date":"2011-08-30T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2011-08-30T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:01:39","slug":"south-korea-adds-2600-songs-to-music-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92220","title":{"rendered":"South Korea adds 2,600 songs to music blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not only <a title=\"UNCUT - China\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?cat=4\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> that&#8217;s working on a <a title=\"UNCUT - Blackstreet's blocked alright\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/08\/backstreets-blocked-alright\/\" target=\"_blank\">musical blacklist<\/a>. Over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemuse.org\/sw43219.asp\">2,600 songs<\/a> have been banned in the past two years in South Korea after being flagged for &#8220;hazardous media content&#8221; by the South Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not <a title=\"UNCUT - Backstreet's blocked alright\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2011\/08\/backstreets-blocked-alright\/\" target=\"_blank\">1990s boy bands<\/a> whose declarations of love are being censored. Lyrics deemed &#8220;problematic&#8221; by the ministry have included references to the effects of alcohol made by contemporary Korean groups.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry&#8217;s aim is to protect young people from &#8220;negative cultural influences&#8221;, but both musicians and fans have criticised the ban as an infringement on freedom of expression. One netizen <a title=\"Global Voices Online - South Korea: Pop Music Censorship Meets with Strong Opposition \" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/08\/28\/south-korea-pop-music-censorship-meets-with-strong-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is pitiful. We are living in the internet era and they forbid songs due to their references to liquor? One can easily access to more hard-core stuff online\u2026 Why dont you just block the internet, deeming it inappropriate for kids below age 19. [\u2026] They spent about 21 billion 940 million Korean Won (approximately 200 million USD) of government money this year in censoring these songs! [This refers to the Ministry&#8217;s yearly budget, not the total amount of money spent on the censorship alone] Will songs about liquor (exclusively) prompt kids to drink alcohol? The kids are not that simple. Why don&#8217;t you, the Ministry, focus on taking care of runaway kids rather than doing this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee Yoo Eun at\u00a0<a title=\"Global Voices Online - South Korea: Pop Music Censorship Meets with Strong Opposition \" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/08\/28\/south-korea-pop-music-censorship-meets-with-strong-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Voices Online<\/a> has a great wrap-up of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not only China that&#8217;s working on a musical blacklist. Over\u00a02,600 songs have been banned in the past two years in South Korea after being flagged for &#8220;hazardous media content&#8221; by the South Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. But it&#8217;s not 1990s boy bands whose declarations of love are being censored. 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