New Media
Democracy
New Media and Democracy: Global Perspectives
South Korea as the World’s Most Wired Nation:
Its Digital Democracy as a Real-Life Case Study
By Sang Jo JONG
Professor of Law, Seoul National University and
Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law
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Source: A cartograghic guide to Starbucks' global domination (http://qz.com/208457)
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share of the South Korean
movie market had reached a
peak of around 80 percent.
Freedom
Under Constitution
Mandatory Review by
Korea Public Performance Ethics Committee
Under Secs. 12 & 13 of the Films Act
Constitutional Court Decision
93Hunga13, 91Hunba10
held on Oct. 4, 1996.
Korea Video Rating Committee
쉬리 (1999) - 6,209,898명
실미도 (2003)웰컴 투 동막골 (2005)
PSY 강남스타일, 유튜브 조회수 20억
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Candlelight Protests in KoreaArab Spring
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Internet Cafe
• Democracy 2.0
based on internet
• Too much
politicization and
agitation
• Voluntary
regulation
• More censorship
and regulations
Internet Democracy to be influenced by censorship and regulations?
Source: OpenNet Initiative by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
"[Mr] Obama always goes reckless in words
and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,"
a spokesman for the NDC's policy department
said in a statement published by the North's
official KCNA news agency.
A group the FBI believes has ties to
North Korea threatened terrorist
attacks against cinemas that
played The Interview.
National Security,
Reputation Internet users ISP
When ISPs are presumed to know there were defamation on its website:
Supreme Court Decision 2008da53812 held on April 14, 2009
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Blogs Cafe Daily
postings News Items Comments
on News Notices
NHN 33 million 5 million 1.5 million 14,000 98,000 1,500
Daum 3.5 million 7.4 million 3 million 12,000 55,000 1,100
• Filtering certain keywords, or
• Blocking certain keywords from search, or
• Filtering critical postings as well ?
• Censorship by private companies ?
• To reduce defamatory comments
and false rumors
• The Act concerning Information
Network Promotion and Data
Protection required Internet users
to verify their identity before
posting comments
• Web sites with more than 100,000
visitors a day = 150 popular sites
and major newspaper sites
Threat to Privacy
Exile to YouTube,
Facebook
Reputation
Social order
Public moral
Constitutional Court Decision 2010hunma47․252 held on Aug. 23, 2012.
“When we gather back here next time, we should bring
specific commitments to promote transparency; to fight
corruption; to energize civic engagement; to leverage new
technologies so that we strengthen the foundations of
freedom in our own countries, while living up to the ideals
that can light the world.”

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    New Media Democracy New Mediaand Democracy: Global Perspectives South Korea as the World’s Most Wired Nation: Its Digital Democracy as a Real-Life Case Study By Sang Jo JONG Professor of Law, Seoul National University and Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law I K
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    Source: A cartograghicguide to Starbucks' global domination (http://qz.com/208457)
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    T I F Roh Moo-Hyun PresidentialCampaign Obama Presidential Campaign P T 2 T - - - -
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    O C m 2 “Rigorous censoring procedure and regulations”pointed out by China’s National People's Congress I 4 a W C b m g
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    • The MotionPictures Exporters Association of America complained regulations and quotas imposed by the South Korean government. • 8 years later, Hollywood's share of the South Korean movie market had reached a peak of around 80 percent.
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    Freedom Under Constitution Mandatory Reviewby Korea Public Performance Ethics Committee Under Secs. 12 & 13 of the Films Act Constitutional Court Decision 93Hunga13, 91Hunba10 held on Oct. 4, 1996. Korea Video Rating Committee
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    쉬리 (1999) -6,209,898명 실미도 (2003)웰컴 투 동막골 (2005) PSY 강남스타일, 유튜브 조회수 20억
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    Falun Gong demoin China Candlelight Protests in KoreaArab Spring T c p F F p s E m m 1
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    Agora: Public Sphere InternetCafe • Democracy 2.0 based on internet • Too much politicization and agitation • Voluntary regulation • More censorship and regulations Internet Democracy to be influenced by censorship and regulations?
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    Source: OpenNet Initiativeby The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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    "[Mr] Obama alwaysgoes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," a spokesman for the NDC's policy department said in a statement published by the North's official KCNA news agency. A group the FBI believes has ties to North Korea threatened terrorist attacks against cinemas that played The Interview.
  • 16.
    National Security, Reputation Internetusers ISP When ISPs are presumed to know there were defamation on its website: Supreme Court Decision 2008da53812 held on April 14, 2009
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    1 Blogs Cafe Daily postingsNews Items Comments on News Notices NHN 33 million 5 million 1.5 million 14,000 98,000 1,500 Daum 3.5 million 7.4 million 3 million 12,000 55,000 1,100 • Filtering certain keywords, or • Blocking certain keywords from search, or • Filtering critical postings as well ? • Censorship by private companies ?
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    • To reducedefamatory comments and false rumors • The Act concerning Information Network Promotion and Data Protection required Internet users to verify their identity before posting comments • Web sites with more than 100,000 visitors a day = 150 popular sites and major newspaper sites
  • 19.
    Threat to Privacy Exileto YouTube, Facebook Reputation Social order Public moral Constitutional Court Decision 2010hunma47․252 held on Aug. 23, 2012.
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    “When we gatherback here next time, we should bring specific commitments to promote transparency; to fight corruption; to energize civic engagement; to leverage new technologies so that we strengthen the foundations of freedom in our own countries, while living up to the ideals that can light the world.”