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The Korea Internet Association was released top news of Korean Intetnet industry in 2008. Making culture of online social controversy and problems (Daum Agora was a playground user-participated debate in US beef import, economic crisis etc. As well malicious comments, rumors, libel on news articles and bulletin board made many social effects for famous star's suicide and defamation of character.) Governmental internet regulation over freedom of expression (Government strengthens monitoring obligation, real identity in web site and the introduction of a law of online contempt etc.) Personal journalism and its growing influence (Fast growing of bloggers, Live news in candlelight protest, ...

New2.0 is a newly launched Korean social news website with an emphasis on in-depth conversation functionality and mutual respected atmosphere. Its style and user-interface resembles Digg.com. But, it only allows for people over 15 years old to register in it and summit a news and write a comment to keep the level of conversation between users. News2.0 does not want to cover provocative contents at all. As like other social news websites, news stories and web links are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. In Korea, it has been delivered full ...

Daum announced a news section operated by blogger's articles in its own news site, Media Daum that is one of the top news aggregation service that most of Korean read online news. It consists of the section for full news articles of traditional media including TV, magazines and newspapers offered by supply contract with fee and another sections by user-generated contents with reviews of TV show(TelZone), stories of revealing truth or discussion of public petitions(Agora) and reportage of world stories (Segyen). The new service reflects of increasing blogger's media power rather than traditional media, but Daum's BloggerNews permits news publishing only ...