South Korea developed a unique patchwork of a sector-specific content regulation based on public-private partnership, while going through exceedingly challenging preconditions, including the Korean War, and authoritarian regime. Using historical, doctrinal, and qualitative methods, I have studied how Korean online content regulation evolved from authoritative censorship to coordinated partnership and which problems are unsolved. It is the first original research introducing a comprehensive landscape of Korean speech regulation to global scholarship, which will benefit policymakers who wrestle with balancing between protecting free speech rights and decreasing the negative impact of harmful speeches.

Speaker: Inyoung Cheong