{"id":12724,"date":"2016-07-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/07\/03\/en-korea-igf-2016-overview\/"},"modified":"2016-07-03T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2016-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2016\/07\/03\/en-korea-igf-2016-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2016) \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-2016-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2016 \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-2016-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2016 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 5th KrIGF met on 23 September 2016 at Sejong University&#39;s Gwanggaeto Hall in Seoul under the theme &#39;Internet for All, Governance by All&#39;, drawing about 120 participants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Workshops ran in four tracks \u2014 governance, cybersecurity, human rights and emerging issues \u2014 covering zero-rating, webcasting regulation, mandatory ISMS certification, IoT, and gender and ICT.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the NGO Open Net hosting three sessions on contested regulations, the forum cemented its role as a public venue where even government policy could be openly challenged.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>5th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2016)<\/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-2016-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2016 \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>5th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>23 September 2016, 09:00\u201318:30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Gwanggaeto Hall, Sejong University, Seoul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Internet for All, Governance by All<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Participants<\/td>\n<td>120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Hosted by the Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA), co-organised by 21 bodies including KISA and Kakao; sponsored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Naver, Kakao and Gabia<\/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-2016-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2016 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Four Tracks \u2014 Governance, Security, Human Rights and Emerging Issues<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ten workshops were clustered into four tracks \u2014 internet governance, cybersecurity, human rights and emerging issues \u2014 mirroring the global IGF&#39;s architecture at national scale, as dig.watch records [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>KIGA&#39;s official history logs 12 sessions and about 120 participants, with address-resource governance, IoT and information-security management as headline topics [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Zero-Rating and Webcasting Rules \u2014 Open Net&#39;s Triple Bill on Regulation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NGO Open Net hosted three sessions on contested regulations: webcasting rules, zero-rating and mandatory ISMS (information security management system) certification [4][2]<\/li>\n<li>Zero-rating raised net-neutrality alarms, and the ISMS mandate \u2014 then being extended to universities \u2014 was among the year&#39;s most disputed rules, making the forum a channel for open policy criticism [4][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Address Resources and Security in the IoT Era \u2014 Governing New Technology<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With IoT adoption accelerating, governance of address resources and security-management regimes topped the agenda, per KIGA&#39;s official history [3][2]<\/li>\n<li>Workshops on domain names and international politics, cryptographic policy, and network security brought the technical community and policymakers to the same table, dig.watch notes [3][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Gender and ICT \u2014 The Human-Rights Track Broadens<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sessions on gender and ICT, net neutrality, privacy and data protection, intermediary liability and online-to-offline commerce anchored the human-rights and emerging-issues tracks [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>True to the theme &#39;Internet for All&#39;, the programme deliberately wove user and citizen perspectives into technology policy debates [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did this meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it is an annual forum where government, business and civil society debate as equals. Its value in 2016 was subjecting live regulations, from zero-rating to the ISMS mandate, to public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the most contentious topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Regulation itself: is zero-rating fair to competitors, and did mandatory security certification go too far? Civil-society groups pressed these questions directly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Mobile data pricing, webcasting rules, IoT security \u2014 the agenda was the everyday internet, debated in the open.<\/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-2016-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2016 \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 2016 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:\/\/igf.or.kr\/category\/2016-krigf\/2016-summary\">2016 KrIGF \uac1c\uc694\uff08\u7b2c5\u56de\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u6982\u8981\uff09<\/a> \u2014 KrIGF\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08Kr-IGF \ud55c\uad6d \uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dig.watch\/event\/korea-internet-governance-forum\">Korea Internet Governance Forum\uff082016\u5e74\u7248\u30a4\u30d9\u30f3\u30c8\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\uff09<\/a> \u2014 DiploFoundation (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\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=\"https:\/\/www.opennetkorea.org\/about-opennet\/summary-of-activities\">Summary of Activities\uff082016\u5e74\u306eKrIGF\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u4e3b\u50ac\u8a18\u9332\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Open Net Korea\uff08\uc624\ud508\ub137\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nsp.nanet.go.kr\/trend\/seminar\/detail.do?seminarControlNo=SEMI0000004693\">2025\ub144 \uc81c14\ud68c \ud55c\uad6d \uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc \uc138\ubbf8\ub098 \uc815\ubcf4\uff08\u6b74\u4ee3\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u4e00\u89a7\u3092\u542b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u97d3\u56fd\u56fd\u4f1a\u56f3\u66f8\u9928\uff08\uad6d\ud68c\ub3c4\uc11c\uad00\uff09 (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 3 July 2016, 10:00 (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 5th KrIGF met on 23 September 2016 at Sejong University&#8217;s Gwanggaeto Hall in Seoul under the theme &#8216;Internet for All, Governance by All&#8217;<\/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":[163,161,160,858,162,164],"class_list":["post-12724","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-koreaigf2016","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724","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=12724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}