Kim Kyung-soo, a trusted aide of South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the former Governor of South Gyeongsang Province, was recently sentenced to two years imprisonment for allegedly manipulating online public opinion to interfere in the 2017 presidential election and 2018 local elections in South Korea, reported Korean media. Kim was Moon’s trusted aide and spokesperson when he ran for president in 2017. The following year, Kim was elected Governor of South Gyeongsang Province in the 2018 local elections. The Supreme Court of South Korea sentenced Kim to two years in prison on July 21 and removed him as governor. Kim was suspected of conspiring with power blogger “Druking.” From November 2016, Kim and Druking allegedly used computer programs to “tamper with 1,180,800 online comments” by methodically “sending more than 88.4 million signals” in 2017 to affect the popularity rating of presidential contenders in polls to help Moon get elected, …