There are many weekly magazines in Korea. How do they keep publishing? How do they make money? Newsstand sales and subscribers will do most of them? No. Unfortunately, commercial ads are the major source of the magazines in Korea. This can be a double-edged blade. Too less ads will make the magazine hard to run the company. Too many ads will make the magazine nothing but waste of pulp. This is the worst case when a magazine is too much dependent on ads of a specific company.
The picture is a text message from publisher of magazine. What's saying in the message is that the publisher is sorry for the previous column which is not favourable about the advertiser. Only, he did a mistake sending it to a another news corporation reporter, so that we are able to know dirty connection between the magazine and the advertiser. Samsung.
The column was about a new movie released to the theatres, and the story is a father's struggle to revealing the samsung's semiconductor factory is using over hundres of kinds of toxic chemicals, and many workers are/were suffering from cancer, leukimia, or many unknown diseases/died without any appogies or adknowledgement of responsibility.
On the contrary to our common sense, the publisher begged forgiveness to the advertiser in the text message. Why? Very simple. Samsung is number one advertiser of the magazine. Without money from ads of samsung, this magazine company can not keep living. There are many magazines so dependent on samsung. Here is the original report: http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=114385
You can change the view of this case to see that samsung is using ads for controlling the press. That is reason many intellectuals, labour unions and NGOs are making harsh criticisms on samsung.
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