The 2011 South Korea Blackout was a

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across

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on September 15, 2011.

Responses

*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

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, responded to his remark by criticizing Lee Myung-bak's ''third world'' approach of extensively hiring

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parachuted personnels. *The

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-affiliated politician, Song Yeong-seon (송영선), mentioned that a

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from

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caused this nationwide blackout and later received negative online commentaries for being uncertainly judgmental. * Choi Jung-gyeong, the head of the

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, officially resigned due to this incident.

References

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Lee Myung-bak Government September 2011 events in South Korea