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2011 South Korea blackout

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The 2011 South Korea Blackout was a power outage across South Korea on September 15, 2011.

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  • President Lee Myung-bak made a remark how this power outage was an incident that "happens in third world countries". The Assembly leader of the opposition Democratic Party, 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 Korea caused this nationwide 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.

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    2011 South Korea blackout Wikipedia
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