About two weeks ago The New York Times wrote in its editorial the following: South Koreans can be as proud of their country’s emergence from dictatorship into a vibrant democracy as they are of the rags-to-riches development that made their country a global industrial powerhouse. So it is alarming that President Park Geun-hye appears intent on backtracking on the democratic freedoms that have made South Korea as different from North Korea’s puppet regime as day is from night...

And it seems that the "authorities" in Seoul are trying to do their "best" to prove S. Korea's retrocession! Here just some of the latest examples...
☞ Business owner hangs critical poster, gets visits from cops (Hankyoreh, 11.30)
☞ Make the VIP Uncomfortable, Be the First to Be Censored (KHSM, 11.30)
☞ No masked terrorists (Korea Times, 11.27)