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Yesterday's Korea Times(KT) wrote the following: Opposition party lawmakers have lamented the presidential office's alleged blacklist of 9,400 artists by comparing them to American Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. "I congratulate Dylan, who sang about anti-war, peace and human right," Seoul mayor Park Won-soon said on Facebook on Friday, after the musician was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first songwriter to win the award. "While Cheong Wa Dae was making the blacklist of pop culture artists, he was writing poetry for the ears that has changed the world," Park said. "Now, I want to hear what only Cheong Wa Dae can answer."...(here you'll get the full piece)

Related (background)articles:
☞ Presidential office blacklisted 9,473 artists for political reasons (KT, 10.12)
☞ Liberals decry arts censorship (K. Herald, 10.13)