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Visits Review Committee Blocks Access to 11 Accounts, Including Instagram for 'Disparaging the Late Roh Moo-Hyun'

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Yoo Hyun-min = The Korea Communications Standards Commission [conducted] repeated content that ridicules the death of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun or insults the deceased or his family...

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On the 22nd, the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) decided to block access to a large number of social media accounts and posts that mocked the death of former President Roh Moo-hyun and contained sexual insults. This marks the first time administrative measures to block access have been taken in a situation where "mocking the deceased" has been widely turned into a form of entertainment through online memes. In the future, similar

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The Broadcast Media and Communications Review Committee discovered 11 social media accounts that have continuously posted content insulting and mocking former President Roh Moo-hyun Ko and voted to block access. This is a measure to protect bereaved families' feelings of remembrance, based on court decisions and external advice, and is likely to sound a wake-up call for indiscriminate deprecation on the Internet in the future.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Yoo Hyun-min = The Korea Communications Standards Commission [conducted] repeated content that ridicules the death of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun or insults the deceased or his family...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) has decided to block access to 11 Instagram and YouTube accounts that repeatedly disseminated content ridiculing the death of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun or insulting the deceased and his family. The KCSC’s Communications Review Subcommittee announced that it had decided to block access to these accounts as a corrective measure during a meeting on the 22nd. Investigations revealed t…

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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