Naver leaves baseless rumors
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It was revealed that Naver has been introducing pro-North Korean organizations that were singled out as "enemy benefiting organization" by the Supreme Court.
The South Korean headquarters of the Pan-Korea Alliance for Reunification, or 'Beomminryeon' in short, was singled out as "enemy benefiting organization" by the Supreme Court in 1997. However, if you search for 'Beomminryeon' on Naver, the portal provides the link to the organization on top of its search page and describes it as an organization that supports South and North Korea and overseas-led unification of Korea.
Below the description of the website, Naver also provides links to desktop version (www.tongil-i.net) and mobile version (www.tongil-i.net/m/).
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Besides, Naver showed 'Beomminryeon Moon Geun-Young' as one of related terms on the result page, leaving baseless rumors of a celebrity. If you click the related term, an article appears on top of the page saying that Moon's family donated 50 million won made at her grandfather's funeral to Beomminryeon.
Below the article, another post titled "List of leftist celebrities" created by 'Daily Best (Ilbe)', a highly controversial extreme rightist website, on WikiTree is shown.
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Naver provides website links to other anti-state organizations on top of its search pages. Another pro-North Korean organization named Hanchongryun, also known as the South Korean Federation of University Students Councils, was defined as "enemy benefiting organization" in 1998. Naver provides a link to the organization on top of its search page along with its 'shortcut' category.
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