Chapter 428 - Sino-Korean cyber warfare! (1/2)
Chapter 428: Sino-Korean cyber warfare!
Afternoon.
Somewhere in the Internet Surveillance Bureau.
It was business as usual. Zhang Ye was reading the news online as Fan Yingyun played games and checked Weibo. The other bureau staff were busy with their own work.
Oh?
Those people were making noise again?
Zhang Ye suddenly noticed a news report regarding Lee Anson's agency holding a media conference back in Korea. It appeared to have happened this morning, and the report Zhang Ye was reading had already been translated. In summary, it covered the unfair treatment Lee Anson had received during his time in China. After being beaten up at the Spring Festival Gala, the accused, Zhang Ye, was not charged under the law and had been released on the day itself. During his concert, the organizers had caused serious repercussions to him when their equipment malfunctioned. They even requested him to cough up compensation for some items that were damaged. Of course, all these incidents were picked on basis of their positive effects for Lee Anson. As for the negative news, like the female fan who had been pushed over, and other details, Lee Anson's agency made no mention of them at all.
In the screenshot, there were also comments from the Korean citizens. It was followed up with some translations.
”Too despicable!”
”This bunch of Chinese are all sc.u.ms!”
”Anson-oppa! We will do something about it for you!”
”Seriously protesting!”
”We demand an explanation!”
The Korean people seemed to be very angered. Even if Lee Anson was not that popular in his own country, he still had some popularity. Besides, who didn't have nationalistic thoughts? They would definitely defend their own kind. Thus, when Lee Anson's agency issued this statement, the people were stirred. His company, team, the Korean citizens, and even their media outlets were all demanding for an explanation from the Chinese side!
But the Chinese people were even angrier than them!
”The Korean media wants to meddle in this as well?”
”F**k! They don’t know s.h.i.+t!”
”Just whose fault was this to begin with? Why didn't you bring that up? Lee Anson and his team are a bunch of idiots? Reporting out of context?”
Zhang Ye browsed the internet and realized that a lot of of Koreans had flooded onto Weibo and various large Chinese forums. There were exchange students who scolded in Chinese and others who scolded in Korean!
”ㅅㅂ!”
”ㄱㅅㄲ! ”ㅅㅂ!”
”Apologize to Lee Anson!”
He could not understand a lot of the gibberish posted, but he knew they couldn't be anything good!
Zhang Ye was not too concerned either. He just browsed casually and that was it.
In the beginning, the matter wasn't too much of an issue. It was just attracting people to join in a war of words. These kinds of incidents were common occurrences in the entertainment industry and many people did not take it too seriously too, but as time went by, the incident took a serious turn. It wasn't known if it was due to the media exposure or other factors, but several celebrities, especially the famous ones from Lee Anson's management company stepped forward to issue their statements, expressing their anger at the happenings to Lee Anson during his time in China! This time, it had stirred the hornet's nest. These celebrities had fans that numbered in millions. With their lead, the fans also found out about the incident and were getting more and more angry! Suddenly, the unfair treatment of Korean celebrities in China spread further and further and even became headlines!
Fang Xiaoshui frowned, ”There's abnormal activity over here.”
Meng Yi said, ”I saw it too. A bunch of Korean IP addresses are being registered on our servers.”
”It's not just a bunch.” A young cyber-policeman said warily, ”The traffic is above usual limits by around 80 to 90 thousand. What is going on? Should we inform management?”
Meng Yi said, ”It's not a DDOS attack, so it shouldn't be a problem, but let's inform Director Dong first. With so many external IPs accessing, there's definitely something going on.”