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362 South Korea 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Telecommunications Business Act, wholly amended by presidential decree no. 13558 on August 10, 1991, Decisions of the Korean Constitutional Court, Opinion 14-1 KCCR 616, 99Hun-Ma480, June 27, 2002. 16. Ibid., Article 53(2). 17. Enforcement Decree of Telecommunications Business Act, Article 16, wholly amended by presidential decree no. 13558 on December 31, 1991, Decisions of the Korean Constitutional Court, Opinion 14-1 KCCR 616, 99Hun-Ma480, June 27, 2002, http://english.ccourt.go.kr/home/ english/decisions/mgr_decision_view.jsp?seq=224&code=1&pg=1&sch_code=&sch_sel=sch _content&sch_txt=99Hun-Ma480&nScale=15. 18. Ibid. 19. Telecommunications Business Act, Law 4903, Article 53-2, January 5, 1995, http://www.itu .int/ITU-D/treg/Legislation/Korea/BusinessAct.htm. 20. "Decisions of the Korean Constitutional Court, Opinion 14-1 KCCR 616, 99Hun-Ma480," June 27, 2002, http://english.ccourt.go.kr/home/english/decisions/mgr_decision_view.jsp?seq =224&code=1&pg=1&sch_code=&sch_sel=sch_content&sch_txt=99Hun-Ma480&nScale=15. 21. Ibid. 22. Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Informa- tion Protection, Law No. 8289, January 16, 2007, http://eng.kcc.go.kr/download.do?fileNm =TELECOMMUNICATIONS_BUSINESS_ACT.pdf; Privacy International and the GreenNet Educa- tional Trust, "Silenced: An International Report on Censorship and Control of the Internet," September 2003, https://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/censorship/Silenced.pdf. 23. Ibid. 24. On its Web site, the Korea Communications Standards Commission defines illegal information as "all sorts of information against the positive law of the Republic of Korea, that is, information infringed upon the public interests and social orders." Korea Communications Standards Commission, "Subject of Report," http://www.singo.or.kr/eng/02_report/Subject _Report.php. 25. Ibid. 26. The NSL has been used to criminalize advocacy of communism and groups suspected of alignment with North Korea, although arrests under the NSL have become much less frequent in recent years. Nevertheless, the law continues to have a chilling effect on public discussion of North Korea and provides a justification for censorship of Web sites related to North Korea and communism. See Ser Myo-ja, "Security Law Marks 60 Years of Strife," Korea JoongAng Daily, Sep- tember 1, 2008, http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2894346; Human Rights

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