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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject: Korea's Internet to Get Less Private |
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Korea's Internet to get less private
A report released yesterday by the Information Ministry said government and large private Web sites will be required, beginning in July, to include ways to track all posters on those sites by their national identity number. The ministry said real names of posters would not be visible in their posts, but those posts would have to be traceable back to a registration of the user's real name and ID number. It did not say how the system would apply to minors, who have no national IDs, or to foreign users of Korean Web sites.
by Wohn Dong-hee, JoongAng Daily (January 10, 2007)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200701/09/200701092139209509900090509051.html |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm reading "Nineteen Eighty-Four" right now. Fitting. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Korea's Internet to Get Less Private |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Korea's Internet to get less private
A report released yesterday by the Information Ministry said government and large private Web sites will be required, beginning in July, to include ways to track all posters on those sites by their national identity number. The ministry said real names of posters would not be visible in their posts, but those posts would have to be traceable back to a registration of the user's real name and ID number. It did not say how the system would apply to minors, who have no national IDs, or to foreign users of Korean Web sites.
by Wohn Dong-hee, JoongAng Daily (January 10, 2007)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200701/09/200701092139209509900090509051.html |
Why can't Korea make up it's friggin' mind about this? (or did I not get the friggin' memo?) I thought not so long ago the government decided they'd do away with -- indeed, prohibit -- websites requiring users to divulge their damn national ID #.  ... and also  |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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If all of us could be easily tracked down from what we post on here, ESL Cafe-related deaths would become the highest cause of fatality among foreigners in Korea.
Korean websites are transforming from gated communities to siege castles. Korean people need to stop using them and make their own sites. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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How many people on here post on KOREAN web sites?
From what I read that applies to Korean web sites and Korean users, not foreign websites that are based OUTSIDE Korea (as Dave's is) and foreign users of said websites. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
How many people on here post on KOREAN web sites?
From what I read that applies to Korean web sites and Korean users, not foreign websites that are based OUTSIDE Korea (as Dave's is) and foreign users of said websites. |
How many? Not certain, but there are some. A handful, let's say. But what's Dave's got to do with this? The article says "posters", so presumably they're only talking about Naver, Daum, etc. ("27 Web portal sites and 16 media Web sites"), but do you know how many gyopos living overseas are members of those sites? The number of foreigners in Korea affected is a tiny fraction of the Great Korean Cyber Diaspora that could be inconvenienced. (I'm guessing) |
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