"SKorean court ends law requiring real names online"

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Associated Press: SKorean court ends law requiring real names online

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The online naming law took effect in 2007 under a bipartisan push to curb libeling, the spread of false rumors and abusive comments in the cyber space. South Korea saw a flurry of celebrity suicides allegedly motivated by malicious online comments, which mobilized the move to control the Internet space.

Anybody know anything about these? This was a couple of years before I was paying any attention to South Korean celebrities, suicidal or not.

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[(Anonymous)]

FWIW there is some discussion of korean celebrity suicides here. No doubt there are far better resources out there but it is a start. I vaguely remember 'netizen' comments being partly blamed in the suicides of some of those celebs discussed; unee and choi jin shil i think.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090106235409AAP6kPA

Look at how tablo was harrasses by netizens - it could have destroyed some people. I wonder about the negative affects on people like eunjeong at the moment as she would no doubt be suffering from the fallout of this alleged bullying debacle.