Stanford Magazine Writes About the Korean Netizens Persecution of Tablo
The Persecution of Daniel Lee
An Internet smear campaign nearly destroyed the South Korean star, but he fought back with the only weapon he had: the truth.
By Joshua Davis
On August 19, 2010, Dan Lee stood on the steps of Meyer Library and pointed to a nearby patch of grass.
“The Rodin statue,” he said nervously. “It was here.”
The Korean television crew following him noted that there was nothing there, just a well-mowed lawn. Students on bikes zipped past, paying no attention to the cameras or the skinny, dark-haired 30-year-old they were filming. In Seoul, it was hard for Lee to walk down the street without being mobbed. To Koreans, he was known as Tablo, a chart-topping rapper who was also married to one of the country’s most prominent movie stars. Until recently, he had been one of Korea’s biggest celebrities. Now his career was in tatters, he’d parted ways with his record label, and his family was receiving death threats.
The reason? Hundreds of thousands of Koreans refused to believe that Lee, ’02, MA ’02, graduated from Stanford. Continue reading
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