SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday urged each party and candidate to refrain from hate speech ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections. Song Doo-hwan, chairman of the commission, said in a statement that state institutions, such as the National Election Commission, should declare their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Online game developer Smilegate Holdings Inc. said Thursday that it had established datasets for hateful online comments and speech through its artificial intelligence (AI) center. Alarmed by the sharp increase in hate expressions in online spaces, Smilegate’s AI center established datasets for hateful online comments and speech as a [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Five years have passed since the Japanese government enacted legislation to prevent hate speech, but Korean compatriots in Japan are still exposed to everyday discrimination. The Korean Resident Union in Japan conducted a survey of 1,497 Korean compatriots currently studying at high school, university, and graduate school in Japan [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans, in general, tend to react more sensitively to the expressions of hatred on the grounds of political orientation or place of birth, rather than those on account of race or religion. Prof. Lee Seung-sun from Chungnam National University and Dr. Choi Jin-ho from Hanyang University conducted a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A transgender individual who was accepted to Sookmyung Women’s University’s Law School after undergoing sex change surgery last year has decided to withdraw her application after being subjected to a torrent of hate speech from some students. In the meantime, some students’ ridicule and accusations against the transgender student [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Council passed a new amendment bill earlier this month that will discourage the use of hate speech in schools under the city’s new student rights ordinance. Back in March, an elementary school teacher caused controversy after calling a student with an ethnic minority background ‘China’, as well [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A study by the Sookmyung Women’s University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation revealed that 94.6 percent of sexual minorities have come across discriminatory expressions on online communities. The study was the first of its kind in South Korea related to hate speech, and was based on an online survey last year of [...]