The Road to Jail is Paved with Twitter

 As one of the Korean leftist professor Han, Hong-gu mentioned, if a law called [National Security Acts] was enacted, it would contain the materials related to social welfare and protections on lower classes. However, the law in Korea, which translated into 국가보안법, makes a big contrast. It was enacted in the age of dictatorship and still remains under the name of national defense. It regulates the spread of certain ideology and ban anti-national movements, and if one infringe the law, the law can sentence up to death penalty, regardless of other related laws, even the constitution.

 A twentieth photographer Park, Jeong-geun was a common citizen (ah, actually, he had a disability) managing a tweeter account. Well, he was quite popular on tweeter, having more than a thousand followers. He was a tweeter buff, and unloaded more than 30 thousand tweet...until he was arrested by the name of the national security law.

A photographer, Park was suddenly arrested of threatening national security

 There is another account called U-ri-min-jok-kki-ri (only with our nation), which is run by North Korean government. It uploaded propaganda defending the North Korean systems and severely (or rather absurdly) criticizing South Korea and U.S.. Park retweeted some tweets by this account, and was caught by the public authority of South Korea. In addition, the police accused Park not only for this, but uploading pro-communist/North Korean tweets; the sum total of such 'seditious' tweets were more than a hundred, less than 0.5% out of his all tweets.

 Then, is he really a person with pro-North Korean opinion? You'd better doubt, 'cause he is a member of Socialist Party. In the Korean Socialist Party platform, they clearly state  that they are against the oppressive North Korean government. Some argues that Socialist Party would be the party criticize North Korea radically than any other party in south Korea. Furthermore, anyone can know if he or she reads the context of his tweets. He maintained his attitude of mockery and satire on North Korean authority and the dictators; "Let's eradicate Kim, Jeong-il, eradicate germs, eradicate cancer", "I sincerely mourn the passing of Kim, Jeong-il, the head of national defensive ministry, and will send  condolences with plutonium and uranium", "Preservative treatments on corps are the silliest acts ever.", "I'll give you a Yo-deok concentration camp voucher." (Yo-deok camp is infamous for its extremely inhumane treatments on political opponents), "Kim, Jeong-il car sex", and so on.

Park in prison.

Park, as a Photographer, made numerous
funny images with North Korean agitation posters.

In the image above, Park changed a machine gun into a bottle of alcohol.

 He had to go through a inquisition procedure and finally was sentenced an imprisonment of two years. International human rights organizations such as Amnesty are trying to save him from the abuse of the authority, but it seems to be quite difficult.

 Why is South Korea superior than the North? Not because South Korea is wealthier. We do not judge a country with its fortune. The real reason is that South Korea guarantees much more rights than Northern one. What threatens the national reputation is not the sarcastic retweets, but the law that ignores the fundamental rights stated on the constitution.