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Internet harassment roils South Korea
��Cyberviolence�� reflects troublesome online society

Updated: 3:51 p.m. ET March 3, 2006
SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Hyo-bi doesn't want her picture taken any more. Not after the 22-year-old student's portrait wound up on a photo-sharing Web site last summer with her face colored and distorted to make her look silly, titled alongside the original as "Before and After."

She tried to simply forget about it, but she couldn't. She was barraged with calls from friends who saw the page, and the humiliation and feeling of being violated caused her several sleepless nights.

"I always thought that it is something (that) only could happen to other people," Kim said.

South Korea is the world's most wired country, boasting the highest per capita rate of broadband Internet connections. But there is a growing sense that high-tech prowess hasn't been matched by the development of a mature online society, creating a growing problem of what is known here as "cyberviolence."

That includes anything from online insults to sexual harassment and cyberstalking, and complaints over such offenses more than doubled last year to 8,406, according to the Korea Internet Safety Commission.

The most complaints were for slander, which tripled to 3,933 cases in 2005.

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TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

i heard that Motleyroadcrue alone was responsible for 7% of it.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

who the bloody hell's Kim Hyo Bi?

Troll_Bait · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject:

I liked this part.

Hooked on the habit?

Kwak Keum-joo, a psychology professor at Seoul National University who has studied the issue, said people who post malicious remarks often get hooked on the habit of seeing others respond to their inflammatory remarks.

When they don't get the response they want, "they get angry and also tend to act more aggressively as they are granted anonymity," she said.

I'm so glad that kind of stuff doesn't happen here at Dave's. Wink

chiaa · Joined: 23 Aug 2003

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Somewhere in the article it mentions needing a more 'mature' internet culture. I've been waiting for the Emily Post of cell phones and the internet for years. I doubt it will ever happen anywhere.

Troll_Bait · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:04 am Post subject:

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

excellent website!

Which Flame Warrior are you?

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

That guy should make a quiz. He's bang-on with his flame warrior types, though. Good stuff.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I'm going to disagree with Troll Bait.

As far as cell phones go...

When I was a kid and the phone rang when we had company, my mom and dad would tell the caller that we had company and would call back later. That was normal in every family I knew. Nowadays, if you are with a friend and his/her cell phone rings, you sit and twiddle your thumbs for 20 minutes while the caller gets priority. What's up with that?

The same with chatting. A caller is interupting a conversation. Why can't people say, "I'm busy right now. I'll call you back about 8:30 when I'm finished"?

As for forums like this, I wouldn't mind seeing a forum where moderators judged if a post adds a thought or a joke and let it stay; delete all those judged useless or trolls. The internet is big enough for the totally free, those like this one and some like what I have in mind.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Troll_Bait · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:01 am Post subject:

Troll_Bait · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: