- Date & Time: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Venue: Conference Room 2, Members’ Office Building of the National Assembly (Note: Overseas speakers will join via online connection)
- Co-Host: Members of National Assembly Juhee Lee • Wooyoung Kim • Minsoo Han • Jinsook Jeon • Jeehye Park, Open Net, Article 21 Network
Safeguarding information integrity while protecting freedom of expression constitutes a core objective of law and policy in today’s digital environment. This challenge has become even more urgent with the advent of the AI era, in which human autonomous judgment risks being displaced by algorithmic decision-making—systems that probabilistically extract and average vast amounts of behavioral data. Yet contemporary debates on this issue are increasingly polarized.
Against this backdrop, the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) offers valuable insights. With the objective of creating a more transparent, and accountable online environment for users across the EU, the DSA represents a strategic and carefully designed legislative framework to protect fundamental rights online while enhancing online safety and protecting democratic processes.
In this spirit, the proposed forum aims to bring together experts and practitioners involved in the DSA, alongside Korean policymakers, members of the National Assembly, and civil society actors. The discussion will examine how the DSA operationalizes a balance between freedom of expression and information integrity, as well as between innovation and rights protection, and will explore ways in which Europe’s experience may be creatively adapted to the Korean context.
This discussion is particularly timely, as the Korean National Assembly has begun to look to the DSA as a key reference model for forthcoming legislation addressing online disinformation in 2025. However, meaningfully incorporating the DSA into Korea’s legal framework requires careful consideration of the global and historical context in which the DSA was adopted, its real-world impact on European citizens’ digital communication environments, and the structural differences between the DSA and Korea’s existing online content regulation regime.
This seminar is expected not only to contribute to an objective evaluation of legislative proposals currently under discussion in Korea, but also to provide a platform for Korean experts to explain Korea’s regulatory environment. In doing so, it will assist EU diplomats and partners in exploring avenues for EU–Korea cooperation that leverage technology to advance human rights—and human rights to strengthen technology.
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Opening Remarks: MP Juhee Lee • MP Wooyoung Kim • MP Minsoo Han MP Jinsook Jeon • MP Jeehye Park |
| 14:30 – 14:55 | Keynote Joris Van Hoboken, Professor, University of Amsterdam |
| 14:55 – 15:20 | Menno Cox, Head of Sector for the global aspects of Digital Services, DG Connect, European Commission |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | Julian Ringhof, Policy Officer DSA, DG Connect, European Commission |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Discussant: Jin-Eung Choi, National Assembly Research Services |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 – 16:35 | K.S. Park, Professor, Korea University |
| 16:35 – 16:55 | Byungil Oh, President, Digital Justice Network |
| 16:55 – 17:50 | Plenary Discussion ___________________________, Korea Media Communication Commission Sunmi Jang, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy |
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