“‘China Gate’ comes to mind… It’s not something to laugh about. It needs to be properly inspected and confirmed.”
Daum (left) and Naver (portal) Asian Games soccer quarterfinal cheering page
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Cha Ji-yeon = On the 2nd, the People Power Party raised suspicions of manipulating public opinion regarding the high percentage of supporters for the Chinese team on the portal site’s cheering page during the men’s soccer quarterfinal match between Korea and China at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Youth spokesperson Kim Jeong-sik said in a commentary, “Many people are puzzled by the fact that Korea’s leading portal sites, Naver and Daum, are compiling statistics that are far from our common sense.”
According to Youth Spokesperson Kim, at the game held the previous day, the ratio of cheering for the Chinese team on the portal page where clicks cheer for the soccer teams of both countries was about 10% for Naver and about 55% for Daum. In the following case, a strange situation occurred where there were more clicks to cheer for the Chinese team than for the Korean team.
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Kim Youth Spokesperson pointed out, “The fact that more than half of Korea’s large portal sites cheer for the Chinese team is clearly a tally that is far from common sense.”
He then claimed, “It reminds me of ‘China Gate,’ which has been suspected in liberal countries, including our country and the United States, for several years now.”
‘China Gate’ is a suspicion that Korean-Chinese and Chinese students studying abroad systematically manipulate domestic public opinion through online communities, portal news comments, and SNS.
Youth Spokesperson Kim said, “We remember an incident just a few years ago when 88 million public opinion votes were manipulated,” and “During the 19th presidential election, programs such as King Crab were used to manipulate search rankings on portals such as Naver and Internet articles to support Moon Jae-in at the time. He said, “It was a ‘druking incident’ that was advantageous to the candidate and the Democratic Party of Korea.”
He also said, “It may be that ‘your heart is surprised when you grow up, or you are surprised just by looking at the lid of a pot,’ but in modern society, Internet public opinion and public sentiment are inseparable.” He added, “The forces that manipulate public opinion with specific intentions and incite the public can shake up the Republic of Korea.” “We can’t leave it alone,” he emphasized.
Youth Spokesperson Kim said, “The People Power Party and Representative Kim Ki-hyun also proposed a bill mandating the indication of nationality or access country in internet comments such as portals,” adding, “In order for the free internet space to become a place for mature public discussion, the Democratic Party also recklessly opposed it.” “I hope you will present an alternative, not silence,” he urged.
Rep. Kim Byeong-wook pointed out on Facebook, “Is the portal Daum the Korean branch of Chinese Baidu? Daum has relatively fewer users than Naver, so it is easy to manipulate public opinion, so is it becoming a playground for Chinese users or pro-China Korean users to manipulate public opinion?” did.
Representative Kim went on to emphasize, “This is not something to laugh about,” and “It is something to properly inspect and confirm.”
Rep. Kim Mi-ae also posted a screenshot of a cheering site on Facebook, where cheers for the Chinese team reached 1.18 million during the first half of the previous day’s soccer game, accounting for 56%, and raised the question, “It’s a Korean portal, so why are there more cheers for China?”
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