Now ringing out from the south Korean public are voices critical of the present authorities' attitude to the media that has reached the worst phase.

During the "presidential" election campaign the chief executive promised to reinstate media-persons who were dismissed under the Lee Myung Bak rule for demanding impartiality of media, but she has not kept her promise as yet, the paper said, and went on:

The police stormed the building of Kyunghyang Daily News causing chaos and preventing the issuance of newspapers. The ruling political party took the lead in taking tough disciplinary measures against media which did not side with the authorities' racket of eliminating the "forces following the north".

The regime even let a person who was dismissed from office as a lawmaker for illegal act hold a post in charge of the media activities, the paper disclosed, querying how can such a regime cry out for impartiality of media.

To slight progressive media is little short of confessing that it is not a democratic government, the paper stressed