Scenarios

1) An Internet site in South Korea protests the current government.Ý Is the content of this site protected by the South Korean constitution?Ý Why or why not?

The answer should be no, under the Act Concerning Assembly and Demonstration continued under Roh, as under the Fifth Republic, to be the law most frequently used to restrict and control nonviolent political expression, the site would most likely be taken down and some action taken against the authors.Ý

2) A disgruntled ex-employee of a company makes a site that posts false negative information about his/her former company, should this site be allowed to stay up?

The South Korean Constitution, under article 21, protects this, which is freedom of speech.

3) A person in South Korea signs up for the Internet through a local service provider and is asked to give a whole lot on information including information on their ideological background, birthplace, political identity and sex life. Should this be allowed?

Amid mounting concern over the reckless collection of user profiles by Internet firms, the government unveiled a package of guidelines, which has yet to develop the legal tools for punishing online privacy peddlers.Ý The contents of the guideline, however, reveals what has been missing in the Internet boom in Korea, with a majority operators eager to collect personal user data for commercial purposes but are complacent about their methods and distribution.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/times/200004/e200004301756014011162.htm

4) One day state prosecutors walked into a person's home and arrested someone without a warrant for writing obscene material.Ý Should this happen in South Korea?

From Wanted: Democracy of the Mind: One day in 1992, state prosecutors walked into my home at 7 a.m. and arrested me without a warrant, which was legal in Korea. I had just published a novel, Happy Sara, about a female university student discovering the joys of sexual freedom before marriage. I was found guilty of writing obscene material and sent to prison for two months.

http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/magazine/2000/0403/korea.democracy.html