SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s newly created media regulator said Friday it will open a transparency center next year to confront the spread of online disinformation, signaling an aggressive shift in how the government intends to police digital content. The announcement came as the Korea Media Communications Commission (KMCC) delivered its first [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –In the wake of an internal dispute within the South Korean national soccer team ahead of the Asian Cup semifinal in Qatar, a wave of fake news targeting midfielder Lee Kang-in, the central figure in the so-called “Ping Pong Gate,” has been proliferating on YouTube, sparking concerns. An analysis by [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling People Power Party (PPP) lawmaker filed a complaint with police Monday against a woman and a liberal news show host for spreading false information that the lawmaker’s family was behind the suicide of a young elementary school teacher. The unidentified woman first wrote an internet post that [...]
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 [...]