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Cyber Troops in Networked KoreaMain MenuPrologue: A Declaration of the Independence of CyberspacePrologue: Myth of Free SpeechCourse DescriptionGenealogy of Comment Troops in KoreaTeam Alpha in Spring 2008NIS Cyber Squad in 2009-2012Formalizing comment troops as a subunit of NISWedge-Driving Twitter Rumors in 2013Propaganda rumors during sabre-rattling with N. Korea in 2013Characteristics of Comment Troops in South KoreaReferencesK. Hazel Kwon1b817f2c0ff691848388b7520736084cfe07409d
Sip-Al-Dan in 2012
12018-05-17T12:42:20-07:00K. Hazel Kwon1b817f2c0ff691848388b7520736084cfe07409d303618Smear political campaign by comment troops in 2012plain2019-06-11T23:52:53-07:00Ronae Matriano8ed24d71e6036affdb22f6e2fd0ec83a8e515e95The 2012 presidential election in South Korea was tainted with online smear campaigns.
Whereas the 2016 US election was meddled with by foreign forces—Russian and Macedonian fake news factories—Korea’s 2012 election revealed infiltration by the country’s internal government agency (NIS), which was supposed to maintain political neutrality.
Furthermore, a far-right evangelical group, often called by the moniker "Sip-Al-Dan" (십알단, meaning “Crusades Comment Troops”), engaged in an illegal online campaign during this period. They set up a fake social media company composed of seven employees who generated aggressive social media comments against the opposition party candidate. The then-failed opposition candidate, Moon Jae-In, re-ran the campaign in 2016 and became the current president with a landslide victory. The Sip-Al-Dan later turned out to be linked to the NIS’s Cyber Squad as a part of its comment troops.
Watch this investigative report on NIS's illegal online manipulation during the presidential campaign.
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