泥中蟠龍's Game愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity] True journalist or presstitute

泥中蟠龍's Game愛歌

[A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]

True journalist or presstitute

September. 27. 2018.

The price rises quickly but declines slowly, which seems to apply to various goods in the market. Companies, that increase the price of products they sell as soon as possible under the justifications, on the other hand, make all kinds of excuses for keeping the price high as long as possible. This is common in the market economy and I understand the businesses' position although I don't think it's right and just.

 The media is bitterly criticizing the government's economic policies. I've seen a lot of critical articles where the South Korean government is going against the flow, citing U.S. big businesses that perform well and even have trouble recruiting workers. Ironically, only a few years ago, they praised mythic "trickle-down effect" and insisted that the government must support large enterprises. There was no outcome over the past decade and no one apologized for what they wrote about.

 I read a ridiculous article where there is no way to protect management control and preserve corporate governance if the voting rights of conglomerate chairmen will be limited. The right given to corporate leaders doesn't need to be defended. There is no reason to help them exercise their vote. Native advertising—articles paid for and/or written by a brand that lives on a publisher’s site—that advocates chairmen's rights even mentioning the introduction of tenure voting—which gives the long-term shareholder additional voting right and dividend—makes me annoying because it gives readers significant confusion as to what constitutes an article and what makes up an ad. A South Korean media outlet published a net neutrality-related article where the right to telecommunications operator's property—telecommunications equipment—should be protected, on the other hand, ironically, argued that shareholder's voting rights should be limited in another article. It would be more like adperson, rather than a journalist.

 It's been a little over a year since the new government was inaugurated. As I mentioned earlier, a government policy against corporate's interests is slowly reflected. Companies especially increase their efforts to delay adopting the new one against the policymaker's decision when it comes to the policy that incurs an immediate loss. A fast-acting drug is like narcotics. It works fast but has big side effects. The press urged regulation of video games considering a disease in the same category as drug addiction and now asks the government for the drug-like immediate impact of its policies, which is a comedy. Numerous game developers have been growing under various regulations over the years. The press never supported the gaming industry when it went through a difficult time, however, now is siding with their advertisers against government regulations and policies.

 The impact of a new policy is not instant. It especially takes longer to infringe on the privileges of minority vested interest. I'd like to give some presstitutes advice to stop running native ads neglecting the fundamental duty to report new impartially before mentioning Koreans' short-tempered nature. A reporter, who runs an article-like ad, is no longer a true journalist. Video games and drugs shouldn't be treated equally and piece-of-garbage articles should be regulated. I support the government to apply medicine that improves its constitution while it would take a long time. Plus, I wish the game industry promotion policy could be together.

 

※ This is from Kyunghyang Games column by 泥中蟠龍 since September 2013.

   (http://www.khgames.co.kr)

   Translation by Kim Ki-hui