S Korean fined for calling Moon Northern on Wikipedia
1 Sept 2017 10:28 PM IST
Seoul: A South Korean software developer was fined on Friday for editing then leading presidential candidate Moon Jae-In's Wikipedia entry to say that he was North Korean.
The 53-year-old man, surnamed Yang, was fined four million won (around 3,500) by the Seoul Central District Court for altering the online encyclopedia's Korean edition in February to say that Moon, who was vying for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination at the time, was a North Korean politician.
He made the same alteration to the page of Seongnam city mayor Lee Je-Myung, a popular leftist politician.
Moon, the son of North Korean refugees, backs engagement with Pyongyang as well as sanctions to bring it to the negotiating table.
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