government blocks blogging sites

I haven't been able to view my blog, or any other blogger or typepad (and some other blog provider) sites for over a week. I finally wrote blogger about it, because I can still update, I just can't view. Anyway, they said that the South Korean government has blocked some blog providers. Isn't that weird? South Korea is supposed to be a democracy, I thought, but this makes the government sound a little more socialist. Hmmmn. I don't know why they decided to do this.