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 [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that the government’s handling of the so-called ‘infodemic’ situation, in which fake information regarding the coronavirus goes viral throughout society, has proven to be effective. Prof. Sohn Ae-ree from Sahmyook University analyzed the government’s crisis management efforts amid the coronavirus outbreak based on interviews [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry has launched a new section on its website featuring “fake news” as part of efforts to prevent the spread of groundless rumors about North Korea and inter-Korean affairs. It is the first time that a government agency has launched such a fake news section on [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Unsubstantiated rumors and speculative media reports about North Korea could cause mutual distrust between the two Koreas and create an “impasse” in inter-Korean relations, an expert said Monday. Kim Dong-yeop, a research professor at Kyungnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, also called for more efforts to create “high-quality” [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education said Tuesday it will develop and distribute new educational content to help students develop their “media literacy” capabilities to critically evaluate media reports. The new content has been created as an auxiliary textbook concept that will be used in Korean language classes for fifth and [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fake news that spread on social media on April Fools’ Day raised eyebrows in South Korea at a time when people have been feeling fatigued as the country fights to contain the new coronavirus. The office of the national park at Mount Seorak on the east coast dismissed Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On top of tracking down potential victims of the new and poorly understood coronavirus and searching for cures that can help treat it, South Korea has another agenda to fight for: tackling fake news. Two weeks after confirming the country’s first infection on Jan. 20, South Korea has seen [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean police said Thursday they are closely monitoring and looking into fake news related to the new coronavirus amid growing fear over the infectious disease. The cyber safety unit at the National Police Agency is focusing on cracking down on fake news related to the coronavirus, such as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A fake news website in Japan that posts offensive articles about South Korea is reigniting controversy among netizens. Last Sunday, one South Korean netizen shared a fake news article most likely written by a Japanese individual on a local online community. “The news articles on the website are either [...]