Korea Communications Standards Commission

The Korea Communications Standards Commission (Korean: 방송통신심의위원회; Hanja: 放送通信審議委員會; RR: Bangsongtongsinsimui Wiwonhoe) is South Korea's Internet censorship body.[1]

Korea Communications Standards Commission
방송통신심의위원회
放送通信審議委員會
Bangsong Tongsin Simui Wiwonhoe
Commission overview
FormedFebruary 2008 (2008-02)
Preceding agencies
  • Information and Communication Ethics Committee
  • Korea Broadcasting Commission
JurisdictionSouth Korea
HeadquartersYangcheon District, Seoul
Commission executive
  • Kang, Sang-Hyun, Chairman
Websitewww.kocsc.or.kr

The KCSC replaced an earlier body, the Information and Communication Ethics Committee.[1]

In September 2011, the KCSC decided to open up its three discussion committees to the public.[2]

The KCSC has required Korean citizens to enter government issued ID numbers in order to post political comments online.[3]

Censorship
  • It is alleged that the KCSC has been heavily biased in favor of the Lee Myung-bak government. On August 3, 2008, KCSC requested the internet portal, Daum, to delete posts and comments negative towards Lee Myung-bak during the heyday of the anti-beef imports.[6]
  • Some lay members of the National Assembly protested against KCSC's censorship-like decision to monitor content in social network services and mobile applications.[7]
  • Moon Yong-sik (문용식) CEO of the South Korean internet contents company, Nowcom, has expressed concerns about the KCSC becoming a tool to monitor and to censor online content that expresses anti-government and anti-big business messages.[8]
  • The KCSC had considered penalizing SBS and MBC for showing Twitter messages that are critical against President Lee and his government.[9]

SNS

The KCSC planned to set up a regulatory office dedicated to supervising posts on SNS outlets.[10] However, the Constitutional Court of Korea ruled against KCSC's decision to regulate voting-related posts on SNS outlets.[11]

Criticism
  • Fans of South Korea's popular variety show, Infinite Challenge criticized the KCSC for pointing out negative remarks towards the show.[12]

See also

References
  1. Jillian York and Rainey Reitman (September 6, 2011). "In South Korea, the Only Thing Worse Than Online Censorship is Secret Online Censorship". Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  2. Kim (김), Byeong-gyu (병규) (2011-09-12). 방통심의위, 소위원회 회의 공개키로. Yonhap News (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  3. "Why South Korea is really an internet dinosaur". www.economist.com. The Economist. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  4. Kim, Su-jin (2009-11-10). "TV 드라마의 등급 분류 기준은?" (in Korean). 매일경제. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  5. "7세 시청가".
  6. Kim (김), Jeong-seop (정섭) (2008-05-08). "李대통령 비판글 지워달라"…방통위, 포털에 댓글삭제 요구. Kyunghyang Sinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  7. Sohn (손), Bong-seok (봉석) (2011-10-20). "방송통신위 SNS 심의 추진에 여야 모두 비판". The Kyunghyang Shinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  8. Cha (차), Hyeong-seok (형석) (2011-06-10). 인터넷 방송 모니터링은 여론 길들이기. SisaInLive (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  9. Chae (채), Ji-eun (지은) (2011-07-07). 방통심의委, 권력 눈치보기 언제까지…. Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  10. Kim, Rahn (2011-12-01). "SNS faces tighter scrutiny". Korea Times. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
  11. Choi, He-suk (2011-12-29). "Court rules against ban on SNS in elections". Korean Herald. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
  12. Im (임), Ji-yeong (지영) (2011-11-18). 징계 또 징계, <무한도전> 잔혹사. SisInLive (in Korean). Retrieved 2011-11-20.


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