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  • 2022-05-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Placard in picture of South Korean President Moon Jae-in doctored to include hostile message (en)
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  • An image appearing to show outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in -- who pursued a policy of engagement with North Korea during his term -- confronted with a placard that says he must die and screw off to the North has been repeatedly shared in Korean-language social media posts. But the placard has been digitally doctored: it originally showed a message asking Moon to support local merchants. The image was shared on Facebook on May 1, 2022 alongside a Korean-language claim that merchants in a market in the South Korean city of Daegu have turned against President Moon Jae-in. The image appears to show a smiling Moon looking at a sign held up by a woman in a market that translates as: You must die for the country to live. Screw off to the North! During his five-year term, the dovish Moon held three summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- a policy of engagement that critics said had seen Seoul make too many concessions to its wayward neighbour. A screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, captured on May 3, 2022. The same image circulated on Facebook here , here , here and here . Comments to the posts suggest some users believed the placard in the image was genuine. One user wrote: Amazing. These grannies are patriots. I completely agree. Moon is the North's spokesman and surrogate, another commenter wrote. The image, however, has been doctored. Through a Google reverse image search, AFP was able to trace the image to a photo posted on March 22, 2019 by Hyoja-dong Studio , a photo website operated by the country's Presidential Security Service. The photo shows a woman holding a sign that translates as: Only if the market lives can the country live. Please help us! The photo’s caption says it was taken during a visit to Chilseong Market, which is in Daegu. Below is a screenshot comparison of the doctored image shared on Facebook (left) and the original photo published by Hyoja-dong Studio (right). A screenshot comparison of the doctored image shared on Facebook (left) and the photo published by Hyoja-dong Studio (right). Moon can also be seen looking at the same sign in a YouTube video posted by the Blue House , South Korea's presidential office, on March 24, 2019. The sign can be seen at the six-minute 28-second mark. Photos of the woman holding the sign were published in local media outlets Yonhap News and Edaily . Media reports of Moon's visit to the Daegu market indicate he received a remarkably warm reception in the city, which has traditionally been a conservative stronghold that tends to vote against his party. AFP has debunked several doctored photos targeting Moon, including here and here . (en)
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