If you know anything about the far east, you might be privy to the fact that a lot of Asian countries are not as lenient or liberal with their internet priveleges as the U.S. is.  There are plenty of stories about government censorship aimed at those who criticize them, and sometimes that criticism carries a heavy sentence.  And unfortunately, South Korea has joined stooped to censoring speech intended to slander or oppose its administration. 

"South Korea is engaging in the sort of Internet censorship usually associated with China, according to The New York Times.

The Times ticks off a handful of examples of Great Firewall-esque meddling: Someone who called the president a bad word via Twitter had his account blocked; a judge who claimed that the president was out to screw over people who challenged his authority on the Web was fired; even pornography is iffy.

South Korea is a democratic nation and is among the world's most wired countries. As the Times points out, South Korea has some of the world's fastest downloads speeds, while Seoul's subway system has WiFi access for smartphones."

Source: Tech News World

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