Term Project : How the New Media Affect Korean Society

In the 1998, the president of the South Korea, Daejung Kim, decided to invest large scale government’s budgets into the IT field. The government predicted the IT and new media will be significant to survive in the global market. Since the government successfully accomplished the project, South Korea has a strong IT infrastructure. Afterward, the government has been invested in IT. Therefore, South Korea has fast internet connection environment, download 10~100 MB per seconds. According to the development of the new media environment, there are some of positive and negative issues. The major positives are faster internet connection, people can communication and access to new media anywhere with their mobile even on the subway, new online business, watching TV anywhere with DMV technology, Display phone and new job opportunities. However there are some of the negative affects which are no protection over the copyright of software and digital contents, online anonymous rumor or comments discredit to people, such as celebrities, online anonymous comments affect the Korean Political world and hacking and phishing. To protect people from the cyber criminal, the government established the organization of Cyber Terror Response Center in 1995. They trace the hackers, phishing and virus. Also they trace the person who posts any negative thread or contents, affects negative effect to society such as negative view of political issue, defamation of character or suicide cyber community. According to the development of the new media environment, the quality of the life in Korea has been improved. However, it has also negative affects to the Korean society.