Looks like I know who to hire if someone turns Korea Beat into a book without my permission:

Mr. Park, the official Minerva.

31-year old Park Dae-seong, the controversial internet “Minerva”, has complained to police that a fake Minerva known as Mr. K used Mr. Park’s name in the monthly magazine Shin Dong-A.

Mr. Park’s attorney Park Chan-jong, through his aide Kim Seung-min, announced, “Mr. K used Mr. Park’s pen name ‘Minerva’ to write Shin Dong-A articles in December 2008 and February 2009, damaging Mr. Park’s reputation… We plan to present our complaint against Mr. K for defamation to the Seocho Police Station in Seoul today.”

Mr. Park explained the background of the problem in his complaint. “The defendant claimed the plaintiff belonged to a group accused of murder, and wrote this while using the plaintiff’s name in the Shin Dong-A while the plaintiff was the subject of an investigation by prosecutors for violating the communications law.”

Last year the Shin Dong-A published an interview in which Mr. K claimed to be Minerva, and when at the beginning of this year Mr. Park was arrested it again reported that Mr. K was Minerva, but then confessed the reports were false and apologized to its readers.

At the time a Dong-A Ilbo investigation found that in November of last year the Shin Dong-A was introduced to Mr. K, as Minerva, by North Korea expert Mr. Gweon and set up an indirect method of communication with him.

A fact-finding committee found that it could not verify Mr. K’s social status as his claimed alma mater  and occupation changed, but did determine he was born in 1976.

Mr. Park also plans to file complaints against internet cafe operators who violated his copyright by collecting his internet postings and republishing them without permission with the intention of turning a profit.

Mr. Kim said, “one cafe operator using the ID ‘일심’ used over 280 posts written by Mr. Park between July of last year January of this year to publish four books, violating Mr. Park’s copyright and improperly earning profits.”

Mr. Park was found not guilty at trial after being arrested on charges of spreading false information harmful to the public interest for writing posts including “환전 업무 8월1일부로 전면 중단” and  “정부, 달러 매수금지 긴급공문 발송” on the economic discussion forums at Daum Agora on July 30 and December 29 of last year.