Definition of the Internet Industry : The Internet market includes an Internet infrastructure service segment and an Internet application

service segment. Internet infrastructure services mainly include Internet access services, domain name registration services, Internet data center (IDC) services and CDN services, while Internet application services mainly embrace E-mail box, search engine, instant messaging, online games, online advertising, E-business and other new application services. Polices:
South Korea has emerged to become the world leader in Internet connectivity and speed. The government had established policies and programs that facilitated a rapid expansion and use of broadband.

Real name policy: There is a government-level proposal to stamp out anonymity in the South Korean internet environment. The KCC(Knowledge Consistency Checker) considers to stop the real name policy. Wireless broadband policy:
South Korea offers wireless broadband in major cities. Wibro and HSDPA is the most common technology used in South Korea's wireless broadband. Many public restaurants offer free Wi-Fi Internet during business hours.

Internet in South Korea

South Korea has emerged to become the world leader in Internet connectivity and speed. The government had established policies and programs that facilitated a rapid expansion and use of broadban

National program
South Korea leads in the number of DSL connections per head worldwide. ADSL is standard, but VDSL has started growing quickly. ADSL commonly offers speeds of 2 Mbit/s to 8 Mbit/s, with VDSL accordingly faster. The large proportion of South Korea's population living in apartment blocks helps the spread of DSL, as does a high penetration of consumer electronics in general. Many apartment buildings in built-up metropolitan areas, such as Seoul and Incheon, have speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s. VDSL is commonly found in newer apartments while ADSL is normally found in landed properties where the telephone exchange is far away. The Internet has a higher status for many Koreans than it does in the West, and the government actively supports this. South Korea's broadband network is the fastest [1] and according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation the most developed in the world.[2] Particularly Seoul, the nation's capital, has been called "the bandwidth capital of the world".[3] In January 2006, it became the first country to achieve over 50% broadband penetration per capita.[4] By 2005, it was the first country to complete the conversion from dial-up to broadband.[5] It also has the cheapest, fastest broadband in the world. Now there are experiments with speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. Additionally, in 2005 96.8% of South Korean mobile phones had Internet access.[6]

Wireless broadband
South Korea offers wireless broadband in major cities. Wibro and HSDPA is the most common technology used in South Korea's wireless broadband. Many public restaurants offer free Wi-Fi Internet during business hours.

Internet addiction
It is estimated that South Korea has over 2 million Internet addicts, about 8.5% of the Korean web users.[7] In one incident a couple were convicted after starving their baby to death, due to their desire to spend an average of 10 hours per day playing online games in Internet cafes.[8]SK Broadband, a major ISP provider in South Korea has started a campaign named "Happy Internet Mentoring" in 2010 for Korean middle school students in order to solve the Internet addiction problem in Korea.[9]

Real name policy

There is a government-level proposal to stamp out anonymity in the South Korean internet environment.[10] The KCC considers to stop the real name policy.

Criticism
Then CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, made a negative remark on the South Korean internet environment for falling "a little bit behind" due to governmental regulations during a conference with Choi See-Joong, chairman of Korea Communications Commission, and President Lee Myung-bak.

Norms Introduction
Content regulation of the Internet has recently come to the fore of public debate as an issue that both governments and Net users are concerned about. A recent survey by Georgia Tech showed that censorship is the number one concern of Net users [1]. The concern is reflected in the recent focus of papers from private and public sectors on Singapore [2], a comparison of Japan and the USA, [3], on Australia [4] and on the European Union [5]. In the above instances, the studies were country-specific and probably necessarily so. Regulation in this area is new and so those who seek to regulate the area have to study the wider implications of even minor changes in law. Country-specific studies raise the question of how widely applicable the new rules might be. Can countries considering regulating the Internet learn from the new rules developed by those that have blazed the trail? Or must each country, as it were, reinvent the wheel. This paper aims to answer those questions by analyzing the approaches adopted by countries that have attempted to regulate Internet content. This paper does not argue the merits or demerits of Internet content regulation: the demerits are too often pronounced although tangible proof tends to be sparse; the merits are often defended by regulators who equally lack tangible proofs. Instead, this paper simply studies instances of regulation in the following countries: United States, France, Singapore, China and South Korea. Lessons are drawn from what each of these countries has deemed illegal.

Pressures to regulate the Internet

Net users appear puzzled by governments' intention to regulate the Internet. Often users say that the Net is a powerful medium that will be stifled by regulation. However, the power of the Internet is precisely the reason that governments want to regulate it. The European Union paper on "Illegal and harmful content on the Internet" probably best sums up the fears of governments about the Internet: national security (instructions on bomb-making, illegal drug production, terrorist activities); protection of minors (abusive forms of marketing, violence, pornography); protection of human dignity (incitement to racial hatred or racial discrimination); economic security (fraud, instructions on pirating credit cards); information security (malicious hacking); protection of privacy (unauthorized communication of personal data, electronic harassment); protection of reputation (libel, unlawful comparative advertising); intellectual property (unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works, software or music) [ibid].

How widely these fears serve as a rationale for censorship is considered below.

South Korea
Probably the first country to have any Internet-specific censorship law is South Korea. In 1995, South Korea passed the Electronic Communication Business Law, which established the Information & Communication Ethics Office. The Office has broad powers to censor: its scope of coverage encompasses material on bulletin-board services (BBS), chat rooms, and other "public domain services" that "encroaches on public morals," "may cause a loss of national sovereignty," and "information that may harm youths' character, emotions and the sense of value." Under the law, the Minister of Communication can order an information provider to delete and restrict the material. By one count, one of the three service providers for online and Internet content counted more than 220,000 deleted messages in the first eight months of 1996 [20]. South Korea stands out for its unique regulation of political speech: contact with and even expressions of sympathy toward North Korea are forbidden. Prosecutors in South Korea have stated that stern measures would be taken against anybody trying to access North Korean home pages on the World Wide Web [21]. A newspaper reported a government official as declaring that should a South Korean meet a North Korean on the Internet, he would have to report to police within seven days [22]. Anyone can be arrested for speaking in favor of North Korea (Kim citing NYT). According to a nonprofit activist group, at least one person has been denied access to the Internet under South Korea's National Security Law to prevent such contact [23]. In the recent grounding of the North Korean submarine, South Koreans who went online and questioned the official version were investigated [24].

Others
Several Internet regulations and proposals for regulations should also be noted. The European Commission has recommended a voluntary code of conduct on the Internet, and suggests using labeling and filtering along the lines of PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection). There are however, at least two problems. First, the labeling and filtering systems are not compatible. Second, the European Union has to develop a framework to clarify the administrative rules and regulations that apply to access and content providers [27]. Canada's federal regulator says it may regulate content on the Internet to provide for more Canadian content [28]. This is similar to the French idea of having more Franco space. In Vietnam, the Interior Ministry has the power to monitor contents, including e-mail, flowing over the Internet. Under the rules, Internet users are held legally responsible for any information they provide or receive [21]. Recently, a spokesperson from the Middle East state of United Arab Emirates was reported as attempting to censor the Internet using Singapore as a model: it wanted to use proxy servers as filters and issue Internet access licenses through the police, instead of the telecommunication regulator because the police monitor data coming into the country [29].

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Internet censorship is the control or suppression of the publishing of, or access to information on the Internet. It may be carried out by governments or by private organizations at the behest of government, regulators, or on their own initiative. Individuals and organizations may engage in self-censorship for moral, religious, or business reasons, to conform to societal norms, due to intimidation, or out of fear of legal or other consequences.
Opinions on the topic of Internet censorship vary, with arguments being made both for and against censorship. Moreover, the extent of Internet censorship varies on a country-to-country basis. While some countries have little Internet censorship, other countries go as far as to limit the access of information such as news and suppress discussion among citizens. Internet censorship also occurs in response to or in anticipation of events such as elections, protests, and riots. An example is the increased censorship due to the events of the Arab Spring.

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