Talk:Censorship of Japanese media in South Korea

Importance-high
Calling this one high because it's an international affair to do with censorship - a topic of interest and contention in the West (I should say West because I'm not going to project what I think about censorship on others). Feel free to change it, or merge it with other articles. Strangejames (talk) 03:53, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

About inaccessibility of media from outside of country
Hi I'm Korean so may not look free-bias for this topic. So I rather note this at talk than back the edit history. ( I agree that description of previous editor is lot better than mine.) But it is not true that Korean does not have access to Japanese media during 1990s. I was trying to describe these narrowly but wasn't successful at all. It is true that Japanese oriented culture was on participant of censorship while it was strongly asked to be filtered after the Imperial Japan period. Korean literature and history was the most desired, since vocabularies on these were under control during Imperial japan period in purpose of Japanization. Although the writer in Japanization section wasn't agreed with strong influence on language, how can it be happen while both Japan and Korea has mandatory honorific in the sentence structure? Also, part of this media restriction toward foreign media was caused by Korean political conflict a.k.a October Yushin and Coup d'état of May Seventeenth: It is not only related to nationalism. However, I didn't write it since 1. it will be long story for my writing technique 2. I'm not clearly politically bias-free if I talk about these political conflict. Sorry about this. In my feeling, the topic is not really throughly described but little bit too much on nationalism topic. ( http://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1981070700209212001&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1981-07-07&officeId=00020&pageNo=12&printNo=18385&publishType=00020  ) Busan coastal area has been exposed to signal of NHK Channel 4, Channel 13, NBC (Channel 11), KBN (Channel 5) according to Jul 7, 1981 in DongA national daily news paper. Also, AFKN (American Force Korean Network) has clean signal in Channel 4 among the country in 24 hour. It was distributed among the country by many kind of printed and recorded media in black market. I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show at AFKN around 1996 during midnight while national broad cast system wasn't allowed to broadcast these kind of contents at all. So I described it that was "officially restricted." Hope I write better than I described before... 65.51.46.52 (talk) 05:10, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
 * What you are saying doesn't make any sense. Japanese media is still censored in South Korea, even if broadcast signals sometimes come over the ocean. The existence of Radio Free Europe didn't make Soviet Russia less censored.
 * Your statement about Coup d'état of May Seventeenth sounds sensible but requires a citation. We can't add it if it's just your personal theory. Shii (tock) 19:58, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I was claiming this sentence: "As a result, Koreans had no access to Japanese media at all until the 1990s." The coverage of signal was not 'sometimes'. According to the report in the new paper I linked, "Sometimes NHK signal was clearer than Korean broadcast signal." It was all day available in 24 hours around Busan area. Since It only takes 4 hours for driving highway between Seoul and Pusan, distribution rate is not comparable with Russia. It also reported "The printed and recorded Japanese broadcast system was distributed at out of statistics that need to be controlled." I'm pretty sure that this report was probably written for reporting of the Japanese broadcast media to citizen, since it was written under media control period, 6.22 1980, after Gwangju_Uprising in 5.18 1980.
 * It is true that Korean media and foreign media is censored.During 1961~87, foreign media was "restricted" severly. "Censored" can be right word for the situation before 1961 and after 1998:1990s, there was telnet, video, record, radio and internet. "Censored" is, However, not good word to describe the situation in 1961~1980s. You can censor something and control it if it was on consideration of sales distribution. Without context of the martial law and media control, this topic only describes the censorship of Japanese media in aspect of nationalism. Korea was under occasional/regional Martial law from 1948 to 1987. Therefore censorship wasn't only about Japanese media, but for all foreign media. Japan and US military services were only open window during this period since traveling foreign country was limited until 1989. However, US government agreed with Korean military government due to the cold war and AFKN didn't report Korean national issue. In this occasion, Japan oversea media was second influential media in Korea.
 * Among 1960~61, 1964, 1972, 1979~80, korean peninsula was under national Martial law due to multiple citizen uprising include April_Revolution,Gwangju_UprisingJune Democratic Uprising. Broadcast systems were all censored by government both in and out of country. Typically Kwangju uprising is famous and reported well, since it was reported worldwide scale with its photograph. According to the book, the german reporter imported his film to Tokyo that silenced at Korean media. Korean old generation is good at Japanese as much as Japan natives. While the Japan broadcast system reported out-party candidate's negative critique, 1980s' korean spy agency kidnapped the candidate in 1973. You have to know that this could be red politically very biased since current President Park is the dictator's daughter, the out-party's legacy is current Korean out-party. Until Korean political situation is over, Korean people can't write this easily, as much as I hesitated. 65.51.46.52 (talk) 04:15, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Anime
I've seen on YouTube many clips of 'Koreanized' Japanese anime and video game commercials that go all the way back to when the ban was around, from the 80s to the 90s. I know of Korean dubs of Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Super Sentai, you name it. But the ban on anime was only formally lifted in 2004, so how did these anime get in during the prohibition? Did the 'Koreanization' (replacing the Japanese identity of the anime imports) play an effective role in disguising the anime as South Korean products to skirt the ban? - Malurian123 (talk) 13:47, 26 February 2020 (UTC)