p2pnet.net - New S. Korea ‘real names’ law
Net users in South Korea will have to give ID data, including their real names, if they want to post on local sites with more than 100,000 visits a day
It was originally going to be sites with 200-300,000 visitors but it was brought down as a way of clamping down on “rampant crimes in cyberspace conducted by anonymous attackers who don’t worry about being traced”.
See also The Korea Times : Internet Real Name System to Start in July (9 Jan 07)
Furthermore, some law professors such as Prof.
Han Sang-hie at Konkuk University contend that the real-name scheme
violates constitutional rights of free speech.“The real-name regulation may be
unconstitutional because it restricts people’s privacy and their right
to speak without revealing their identities,’’ said Han, who also works
for a civic group, the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy.