Gyuseong Park
Background
As the significance of Internet has been increased in people’s daily life, the importance of
security of Internet has been gradually enlarged. Korea, one of the country where Internet
is widely and effectively used in various ways, the insecurity of Internet transaction is not
just a simple incident. Thus, there are many security measures and regulation imposed by
Korean government emerged since the inchoate stage. It is clear that these security
measures have been contributed to the growth of Internet in Korea; because ensuring
But recently, there are lots of critiques from diverse point of view toward these Internet
security regulatory policies. Especially, there is a persuasive argument that the uniqueness
of this ‘Korean-style’ Internet security regulation which strictly requires its own plug-in
programs under certain platform instead of Web standard, not only created inconvenience
of Internet users, but contributed to the defects that external danger as observed in 2003,
and 2009 DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Why the measures that intended to
prevent cracking and protect private information are criticized because of its negative
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impact on security? To analyze this, it is needed to observe the origin and impact of
changed in this year. It is not easier to detect all of the reason of this change, but it is
Purpose
As mentioned above, this paper aims to analyze and argue the uniqueness of internet
security regulation in Korea, and its actual impact. Unfortunately, the authority did not
create a credible, and applicable source of quantitative data can be analyzed, and due to its
recent change, it is impossible to analyze the impact of change in 2010. Thus it is unable to
conduct a noteworthy quantitative analysis yet. Despite this limitation, This paper tries to
consider this regulation by encompassing various issues: internal and external constraints
Internet users, and external factors which contributed to its recent change.
By doing this, this paper is arguing that the uniqueness of Internet security regulation is
the result of the interplay of various visible and invisible institutions, especially technical
availability. Also, this paper claims that negative and paradoxical impact of regulation
apart from original intention is not a simple policy failure. Instead, this paper contends
technology has been being rapidly and continuously developed. In other words, the
reason is not wholly from the flaws of unique regulations, but mainly from the failure of