OPEN TALKS
The 3rd Summit for Democracy: Tech and Democracy & Digital Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Open Net held a workshop titled "Tech and Democracy in Southeast Asia", March 19, 2024, 4:30 pm to...
DRAPAC Series: South Korea’s Lessons for Threats to Southeast Asian Internet Freedom
In this episode of the DRAPAC Series, Kyung Sin ‘KS’ Park, a professor at the Korea University...
[Panel Discussion] Exploring Strategies for combating hate speech and discrimination: the rights to be safe from disaster and hate speech
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RECENTS
Open Net Files a Constitutional Complaint Challenging the Deepfake Prohibition Provisions under Public Official Election Act
Open Net Korea filed a constitutional complaint on October 1, 2025, challenging the deepfake...
UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy: “Warrantless Collection of Telecommunications User Information Violates International Human Rights Law and Must Be Reformed” – Sends Allegation Letter to the Korean Government
1. Ana Brian Nougrères, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, sent an allegation letter...
Open Net Submits Opposition to the Criminal Law Amendment that Restricts Criticism of the Deceased
Open Net Korea submitted an opposition statement to the National Assembly on August 14, 2025,...
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[Campaign] Unlocking Access: Liberating Online Abortion Information
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[Parliamentary Conference] Two Years Under Yoon Soek Yul’s Government: Dismantling Public Space and Suppressing Freedom of Expression
1. Background Since the media consolidation measures by...
Groups call for action to address South Korea’s delayed commitment to abortion rights
In April 2019, South Korea’s Constitutional Court...
PRESS RELEASE
[Statement][Article 21 Net] Lee Jun-seok must resign following verbal sexual harassment during presidential debate
There have long been assessments that policy has gone...
Open Net recognizes the police’s decision not to forward the case against the distributor of satirical videos about Yoon; We urge swift non-prosecution decisions for other producers and distributors
Last November, the police made a decision not to forward...
Not a ‘Nationality Display in Comments Law’ but rather a ‘Internet User Location Tracking Law’ – OpenNet submits opposition statement regarding the Information and Communications Network Act amendment bill
Open Net Korea submitted a statement of opposition to the...
OPEN BLOG
DRAPAC 2025 Kuala Lumpr: Age gating and human rights
Open Net jointly hosted a workshop at DRAPAC 2025 on August 27, 2025 with Electronic Frontiers...
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[Panel Discussion] Copyright Issues of Generative AI” – A Civil Society Roundtable on AI Copyright Debates
On July 23, 2025, Researcher Kyungmi Oh participated as a discussant in a civil society roundtable...
What is hate speech, and how should it be punished?
The following is the presentation delivered by Open Net researcher Kimmy Oh at the Article 21 Net...
ON IN MEDIA
Forbes 27.11.2017. “How A Website About North Korea’s Tech Use Battled — And Beat — Being Blocked In South Korea”
