SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean celebrity sphere is struggling with fake news being spread on YouTube. VAST Entertainment, the management company representing Hyun Bin, denied rumors spread on YouTube that the star actor and actress Son Ye-jin had divorced. The video falsely claimed that Hyun lost 15 billion won (US$11.4 million) to [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Countries with lower national income are more prone to believing in COVID-19-related fake news, a study showed Wednesday. The Institute for Basic Science’s Data Science Group led by Cha Meeyoung, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), analyzed data collected from 40 countries as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government will beef up efforts to monitor fake news on North Korea that “distort the policy environment” for inter-Korean relations, officials said Monday. On Friday, the National Assembly approved a 1.5 trillion won (US$1.27 billion) budget for the unification ministry handling inter-Korean affairs next year, including [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Moves are afoot for Internet companies such as online portals and communities to directly delete postings that contain fake or manipulated information related to the coronavirus pandemic. The Korea Internet Self-governance Organization (KISO), an industry group of major Internet firms, said Wednesday that it had established a foundation for [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s YouTube users consider the spread of fake news to be the most serious issue among the social problems caused by the online video-sharing platform, a recent survey showed. The Korea Press Foundation conducted a survey of 1,000 YouTube users, 87 percent of whom picked the spread of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The ruling Democratic Party (DP) on Tuesday vowed to legislate a set of bills that would increase the burden of responsibility of news media, internet portals, YouTubers and bloggers for fake or false news. “We decided to push for legislation under the principle that news media and internet portals [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey revealed that people face fake news mainly through online videos uploaded via new media like YouTube. The Korea Press Foundation carried out a survey of 1,000 South Korean adults to find out the main sources of fake news. In response to a question asking about the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will set up a participatory fact-checking platform to cope with various side effects caused by the expanding use of digital media following the coronavirus outbreak. The Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced these plans on Thursday. “The expanding use of digital [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said Tuesday it will clamp down on fake news surrounding COVID-19 as the country experiences a resurgence of the virus. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said it would take “stern action” against fake news on the virus, which disrupts anti-infection measures, by working with the [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube will cooperate with South Korea to closely monitor and prevent the spread of fake news and illegal content, South Korea’s telecommunications regulator said Friday, citing a Google executive. Google’s Senior Vice President Neal Mohan made the comments during a videoconference with Han Sang-hyuk, chairman of [...]