The restrictive real-name registration made for curbing ‘cyber-bullying’ was effective on April 1, 2009 in Korea. According to a thesis submitted to the National Seoul Graduate School of Public Administration by Woo Ji-Suk of the same school on April 8, 2010, malicious comments posted on Internet bulletin boards decreased from 13.9% before the real-name registration to 12.2%, which was meant the new system shows little improvement significantly.
Conversely, participants posting on bulletin boards dropped steeply to over one third compared to prior to the registrating system. In other words, the effects of the real-name registration are very limited, but the shrinking of the social communication is rather conspicuous.
The Korea Communications Commission relieved Youtube of the real-name registration by a reason that it is a foreign site. For this, Pandora TV, local video site, publicized its complaint, saying the exemption is an opposite discriminating decision. Pandora TV said that the numbers of its page views after the system plunged 15-20% compared to before the one.
The system was first applied to 37 sites of over average three hundreds thousands users per day on June 2007. And then, as it happened that cyber-bullying droved a celebrated woman to suicide and allegedly boosted candlelight vigil of mad-cow disease, the applied criterion extended to the sites of over one hundred thousands users, presently 167 sites.
The association of online reporters pronounced a commentary supporting the repeal of the real-name registration last week. (The end)
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