“Anybody who doesn’t think China exercises extraordinary control and coercion over what happens in Tibet should try coming here with accreditation as a foreign journalist. It makes one radioactive.”

“In the end, we will never know how they planned to approach it but suffice to say the senior editors were delighted when “South Korea” was read out at the press conference. Back-slapping and congratulations ensued - one editor said that it would have

“They’re young and they’re beautiful and when they approach the stopping cars with a big smile you might mistake them for selling sex, but no… they’re selling drugs”.

“Naver News posted the following Seoul Shinmun cartoon on its site, here, at 20:48 on April 17, 2007. In its rush to take a jab at the United States, the newspaper posted the cartoon before it knew that it was a Korean citizen who had done the shooting.”