Oh my

ONE evening last October Lee Joung Binn, then South Korea's foreign minister, was having drinks with his officials and some local journalists. He was chatting about a meeting he had had with Madeleine Albright, the American secretary of state at the time. When he hugged her, he is reported to have said, it felt as if her breasts were like those of a young woman. No newspaper printed his gallantry about the 62-year-old Mrs Albright. Yet soon the titbit was the talk of Seoul, and an embarrassment for Mr Lee, who has since been sacked. It was, though, a scoop for OhmyNews, one of the growing number of South Korean “newspapers” on the Internet.