2011 South Korea blackout
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The 2011 South Korea Blackout was a power outage
across South Korea
on September 15th, 2011.
Power outage
A power outage is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network...
across South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
on September 15th, 2011.
Responses
- President Lee Myung-bakLee Myung-bakLee Myung-bak is the President of South Korea. Prior to his presidency, he was the CEO of Hyundai Engineering and Construction and the mayor of Seoul. He is married to Kim Yoon-ok and has three daughters and one son. His older brother is Lee Sang-deuk, a South Korean politician. He attends the...
made a remark how this power outage was an incident that "happens in third world countries". The Assembly leader of the opposition Democratic PartyDemocratic Party (South Korea)The Democratic Party was a political party of South Korea.Formerly called the Millennium Democratic Party , or Saecheonnyeon Minju-dang , it changed its name to the present form on May 6, 2005.- History :...
, Kim Jin-pyo, responded to his remark by criticizing Lee Myung-bak's third world approach of extensively hiring crony parachuted personnels. - The Future Hope Alliance-affiliated politician, Song Yeong-seon (송영선), mentioned that a cyberattack from North KoreaNorth KoreaThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
caused this nation-wide blackout and later received negative online commentaries for being uncertainly judgmental. - Choi Jung-gyeong, the head of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, officially resigned due to this incident. He was also responsible for two failures of implementing positive economic measures along with Kang Min-su (강민수).