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366 South Korea 70. National Election Commission, "The Overview of Cyber Crackdown Service Related to the 18th National Election." 71. Bruce Wallace, "Emotions Don't Reach S. Korea Voters," Los Angeles Times, December 15, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/15/world/fg-korea15. 72. "The 2007 Korean Presidential Elections and Internet Censorship," Internet and Democracy Blog, January 16, 2008, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/01/16/the-2007-korean-presidential -elections-and-internet-censorship/. 73. The IENDC's mission is to ensure that newspaper Web sites, online news agencies, and other semiofficial online news sources are impartial in their campaign coverage and do not violate election laws. The IENDC has a great deal of discretion to decide what constitutes a violation of these rules and to censor the Internet press accordingly. Generally, it does so by contacting the relevant Internet press organizations and telling them to change their content or to issue a cor- rection. See National Election Commission Web site, "About IENDC," http://www.nec.go.kr/ english/NEC/nec_IENDC01.html. 74. Public Official Election Law, Article 8-5(1). According to the NEC, IENDC bans the Internet media from doing the following: (1) Reporting on public opinion polls during the two- to three- week election period, or reporting on polls during any other period in a way the IENDC considers biased or inaccurate; (2) using headlines that "reduce, overstate or distort" election-related news; (3) reporting "distorted or false" news by "overstating, highlighting, cutting or hiding important facts that may have substantial impacts on the decisions of voters"; (4) falsely attributing any statements or other actions to candidates or political parties; (5) misinforming voters with reports on election results estimated without any reasonable basis; (6) failing to draw a sharp line between facts and opinions; (7) failing to equally represent different points of view when asking candidates or other people for their opinions; (8) modifying pictures or videos to create a nega- tive portrayal of a candidate; (9) allowing opinion advertisements that support or oppose a particular party or candidate. See National Election Commission Web site, Internet Election News Deliberation Commission Regulation No. 1, Articles 1-18. 75. Since it started in 2002, the CCT polices blogs, personal Web sites, video postings, and message boards. Its three main tasks are to prevent damaging and untrue statements about can- didates during an election, to maintain the prohibition against campaigning outside of election periods, and to ensure that all users make comments during an election with only their full, real names. All three tasks are usually executed by requesting that the Web site's hosting service delete or change offending content, potentially opening an investigation, and pressing charges if the hosting service refuses (ONI interview with an official from the Cyber Censorship Team). Moni- toring is carried out by about 1,000 part-time workers who are hired nationwide 120 days before every election to run a search program to find and flag suspicious content (ONI interview with IENDC official). 76. ONI interview with an official from the Cyber Censorship Team. 77. Offending acts include posting long opinions of political parties on Web portals and Web sites, posting comments on online news articles, or any similar acts on personal Web sites or

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