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South Korea always boasts a great deal of connectivity and fast internet speeds but much of the population is locked to a very insecure way of authenticating Ko

South Korea always boasts a great deal of connectivity and fast internet speeds but much of the population is locked to a very insecure way of authenticating Korean users via SSN or ActiveX plugins for banking that led to majority of credit cards being compromised a year ago. Lot of websites are blocked, porn and whatever South Korean government deems as threat to their "National Security". Replying to a thread on a North Korean site will get you a visit from the police, blog about smoking marijuana in Canada and get arrested, make a porn video in Canada and get arrested. The population has to pretty much deal with having fast access to a limited web, that is less secure and stuck in 2001 designs. Even if it gets faster and faster, the underlying issue that information is not truly free in South Korea is something the government likes to keep everyone in the dark about.

pyre 12y ago
> blog about smoking marijuana in Canada and get arrested > make a porn video in Canada and get arrested Could you provide some context to this? Are you saying that someone could be arrested in South Korea for (e.g.) creating a porn video while in Canada? Does this just apply to South Korean citizens[1], or everyone that ends up on South Korean soil? [1] If so, it's not unprecedented for a country to punish its citizens for doing something that is legal elsewhere, but illegal in-country.
- yongjik 12y ago
  IANAL, but I'll be pretty surprised if a Canadian citizen gets arrested in South Korea for having made a porn video in Canada. (Unless he/she created a porn site with the explicit purpose of (illegally) selling porn to Korea. Also, assuming he/she is not also a citizen of South Korea.) About marijuana, yes. Korea is still ass-tight about drug laws. (But again, I'll be really surprised if, say, a US citizen is arrested upon visiting Korea for having smoked marijuana in Denver.) Edit: Also, the claim of censorship is real but overblown. It's not like they censor CNN, wikipedia, or whatever website that might contain information that doesn't portray the Korean government in a glowing light. The only time I found some website blocked was some rambling twitter account from NK (or maybe NK sympathizer), and I knew about that twitter account only because the fact that it was blocked became viral news. But then again, I'm not interested in porn, gore videos, warez, or North Korean news, so YMMV.

pyre 12y ago

> blog about smoking marijuana in Canada and get arrested > make a porn video in Canada and get arrested Could you provide some context to this? Are you saying that someone could be arrested in South Korea for (e.g.) creating a porn video while in Canada? Does this just apply to South Korean citizens[1], or everyone that ends up on South Korean soil? [1] If so, it's not unprecedented for a country to punish its citizens for doing something that is legal elsewhere, but illegal in-country.

yongjik 12y ago
IANAL, but I'll be pretty surprised if a Canadian citizen gets arrested in South Korea for having made a porn video in Canada. (Unless he/she created a porn site with the explicit purpose of (illegally) selling porn to Korea. Also, assuming he/she is not also a citizen of South Korea.) About marijuana, yes. Korea is still ass-tight about drug laws. (But again, I'll be really surprised if, say, a US citizen is arrested upon visiting Korea for having smoked marijuana in Denver.) Edit: Also, the claim of censorship is real but overblown. It's not like they censor CNN, wikipedia, or whatever website that might contain information that doesn't portray the Korean government in a glowing light. The only time I found some website blocked was some rambling twitter account from NK (or maybe NK sympathizer), and I knew about that twitter account only because the fact that it was blocked became viral news. But then again, I'm not interested in porn, gore videos, warez, or North Korean news, so YMMV.