{"id":12718,"date":"2013-07-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/07\/16\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T01:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2013-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/07\/16\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2013) \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 2nd KrIGF met at Konkuk University in Seoul on 3 May 2013, growing sharply to seven sessions and about 150 participants from the tiny inaugural meeting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Its focus was the multistakeholder model and wider private-sector participation \u2014 debated in the shadow of WCIT-12, the ITU conference that had just split the world over state-led internet control.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Still run by the government agency KISA, the forum nonetheless amplified academic and civil-society voices \u2014 &#39;there is no king here&#39; \u2014 that would drive the shift to civil-society leadership the following year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>2nd Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2013)<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>2nd Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2013)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>3 May 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Regional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Korea Internet &amp; Security Agency (KISA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. The Multistakeholder Model \u2014 A Bigger Forum Takes On the Big Question<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to KIGA&#39;s official history, the 2nd forum expanded to seven sessions and roughly 150 participants, focusing on multistakeholder models and broader private-sector participation [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>It came just months after WCIT-12, the December 2012 ITU conference that split the world over state-led internet control, sharpening Korean interest in who should govern the internet [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. &#39;There Is No King Here&#39; \u2014 Academia and Civil Society Speak Up<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Panel &#39;Internet Governance Forum&#39; held 11 January 2013 at Konkuk University, months before the 2nd KrIGF (reported by Media Today)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The core of internet governance is bottom-up consensus and the multistakeholder approach \u2014 there is no king here (translated from Korean)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lee Dong-man (Professor, KAIST)<\/strong> [2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeon Eung-hwi of the Green Consumers Alliance called Korea&#39;s regime \u2014 KISA&#39;s monopoly over .kr under the 2004 Internet Address Resources Act \u2014 &#39;far more backward&#39; than international proposals (translated from Korean) [2]<\/li>\n<li>Activist Oh Byung-il of Jinbonet warned that the debate as then framed excluded the private sector and could enable government control of the internet [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Shedding Government Leadership \u2014 A Forum on the Eve of Reform<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GISWatch&#39;s country report characterises the 2012 and 2013 forums as top-down affairs led by the government agency KISA [3][1]<\/li>\n<li>The very next edition flipped to a civil-society-proposed format, followed by the founding of the Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA) in November 2014 \u2014 making the 2nd forum the last of the old regime [3][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was this meeting about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. How to root the multistakeholder model \u2014 government, business and civil society deciding internet rules as equals \u2014 in Korea, and how to widen private-sector participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Who governs the internet. WCIT-12 had just split the world over state control, and at home critics attacked the government agency&#39;s monopoly over the .kr domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Whether internet rules are written by officials alone or with users at the table is a live question in every country \u2014 this forum shows one country wrestling with it early.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Korea IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/en-korea-igf-2013-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2013 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 About Korea IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Korea IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2013 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xn--3e0bx5euxnjje69i70af08bea817g.xn--3e0b707e\/jsp\/governance\/krigf.jsp\">\ud55c\uad6d \uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc (KrIGF) \uc18c\uac1c\u30fb\uac1c\ucd5c \uc774\ub825\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u5c65\u6b74\u8868\uff09<\/a> \u2014 KRNIC \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uc815\ubcf4\uc13c\ud130\uff08KISA\u904b\u55b6\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediatoday.co.kr\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=107098\">&quot;\uc778\ud130\ub137 \uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4, \uc65c \uc57c\ub2e8\ub4e4\uc774\uc57c?&quot;\uff08\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u3001\u306a\u305c\u9a12\u3050\u306e\u304b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \ubbf8\ub514\uc5b4\uc624\ub298\uff08Media Today\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giswatch.org\/en\/country-report\/internet-governance\/korea-republic\">Korea, Republic of \u2014 Internet governance country report<\/a> \u2014 Global Information Society Watch\uff08APC\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/republic-of-korea-igf\">Republic of Korea IGF\uff08NRI\u767b\u9332\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 UN IGF Secretariat (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Revision History<\/h2>\n<p>Rev. 1 \u2014 published 16 July 2013, 09:00 (Article published)<\/p>\n<p>Rev. 2 \u2014 updated 16 July 2026, 20:09 (Fully revised into the in-depth edition: added the 3-line summary, minutes digest, short talk, source list and diagrams (all quotes verified against the listed sources))<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd KrIGF met at Konkuk University in Seoul on 3 May 2013, growing sharply to seven sessions and about 150 participants from the tiny in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,77,11],"tags":[163,161,160,670,162,164],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aprigf","category-igf","category-korea-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-koreaigf2013","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}