Here’s another target for Dokdoisours.

Satirical blog Dokdoisours has had a lot of fun with the Korea Times.  The Times’ is infamous for it’s poor editing .

The Korea Herald is a little more professional but is trying a new advertising technique.  Oh, I wrote new, but I first noticed it a month ago or so.  They hyperlink more or less random words in their articles.  Let’s see if the links are visible -broken or not- after I paste:

“Ubiquitous access to my email account has cut down a lot of unnecessary time spent looking for the Internet, and it also helps me take care of necessary business more promptly,” Lee said.

This is why the government also is pushing for the so-called “smarter way of working,” he pointed out.

Lee added that the developments were not just happening with phones, but also televisions and computers.

South Korea hopes to commercialize smart TVs by 2012 so that television viewers may have instant access to the Internet while they watch their favorite programs.

From Is it time to get phone smart?  None of these links are for translation or further information related to the article.  Further, in accidentally dragging the mouse over a link, I get a little box obscuring part of the text.  The box has an ‘x’ and will fade after a few seconds but is really annoying.

I am not sure which is worse, the money grubbing links in the Korea Herald or the lack of professionalism at the Korea Times.

Convicted criminal returns to job

Lee Kun-hee resigned or otherwise left (see below) his position as Chairman of Samsung and soon afterward went to jail as a result of his actions while running Samsung.  In a move fairly typical Korean justice with chaebol leaders, he was soon pardoned (the surprising thing is that he spent any time in jail at all).

He was released in February and will soon return to work in the same position at the same company that he broke the law in previously. Part of the reason for his pardon was his previous work on the International Olympics Committee.

He’d better bring the Olympics to Korea!

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Different papers describe the way he left Samsung (my bolding):

Korea Times:  Lee Kun-hee, 68, will rejoin Samsung Electronics as its chairman, two years after resigning from the group chairman’s post at the country’s largest conglomerate during a criminal investigation into the illegal transfer of corporate wealth to his family members.

Joongang: Lee’s return comes nearly two years after he voluntarily stepped down as the group’s chairman amid charges of tax evasion and illegal bond transactions.

Yonhap:  The 68-year-old Lee, who was forced to step down as chief of Samsung Group in April 2008 following his indictment in a tax evasion and breach of trust case, had been widely expected to return to Samsung’s management after the government pardoned him at the end of last year.