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Korea: Teenagers to be blocked from cyber pornography
Korea’s government will implement measures to protect its youth from
harmful illegal information
By Bae Keun-min
August 25, 2004
The government will implement a set of comprehensive and systematic measures to
prevent illegal harmful information from reaching juveniles.
To develop technologies for protecting teenagers from lewd and detrimental
information in cyberspace, the government has decided to invest 10-billion-won
by 2007.
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) said Thursday that it plans
to further fortify technological power for filtering noxious images and text
flowing through Peer-to-peer (P2P) sites. It will also strengthen monitoring of
cyber communities, including those for suicide, and P2P sites from next month.
In addition, guidelines for safeguarding teenagers in the virtual world will be
mapped out by the end of the year.
The MIC will establish and run a subdivision for teenagers at the anti-spam
mail commission chaired by the deputy minister of information and communication
from September.
Under the subdivision, it will also form groups of private specialists, who
will each deal with related spheres of cyber space such as laws, systems, and
fixed line and wireless internet services. It plans to establish an advisory
team for the team as well.
Moreover, the government eyes to brace a cooperation system with the National
Police Agency in investigating illegal cyber information reported to the police
and to the Hotline Internet 119 at www.internet119.or.kr, which is run by the
Information Communication Ethics Committee.
The government will expand the cooperation with local police agencies, the MIC
said.
The MIC has decided to revise laws on use of information networks and
information protection, which will require service providers in cyber space to
be designated as ``juvenile protectors.’’ It will also regulate advertisements
containing information detrimental to teenagers with more solid measures.
The government will name sample schools as ``cyber clean schools,’’ where
programs for ethics in information communication will be taught, and devise a
test to gauge the degree of individual students’ ethics till the end of the
year.
The MIC plans to promote establishment of a cooperation center among Asian
nations, as there is a rising demand for inter-country cooperation in
confronting illegal and harmful information in the virtual world.
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