{"id":12732,"date":"2020-10-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/10\/04\/en-korea-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T13:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/10\/04\/en-korea-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2020) \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-2020-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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-2020-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 21 August 2020 the 9th Korea Internet Governance Forum went fully online for the first time (Zoom and YouTube), under the theme &#39;Internet Governance in the Pandemic Era: New Normal, Connection, Safety.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nine workshops and two lectures tackled the year&#39;s defining questions: balancing epidemic control with privacy, the digital divide of a contact-free society, and demands on Korea&#39;s newly empowered Personal Information Protection Commission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Every country wrestled with pandemic-era privacy trade-offs; KrIGF 2020 shows how a national IGF kept the multistakeholder conversation running through the crisis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>The 9th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2020)<\/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<blockquote>\n<p>&#x1f4cd; The first fully online KrIGF, prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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-2020-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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>The 9th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2020)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>9th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>21 August 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online (Zoom webinar with YouTube streaming, 10:00\u201318:00)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Internet Governance in the Pandemic Era: New Normal, Connection, Safety<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Workshops<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-hosted by 14 organisations including the Korea Internet &amp; Security Agency (KISA, President Kim Seok-hwan) and the Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA, Chair Lee Dong-man)<\/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-2020-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Epidemic Control and Personal Data \u2014 Balancing Public Health with Privacy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop sessions on COVID-19 issues<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to balance the use of personal data for epidemic control against privacy protection was a headline workshop theme [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Having deployed data-intensive contact tracing, Korea&#39;s community stressed that crisis-time data use needs societal scrutiny and dialogue [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Wishes for the New Privacy Regulator \u2014 Oversight in the &#39;Data 3 Laws&#39; Era<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop 7 &#39;What We Want from the Integrated PIPC&#39; (proposed by Jinbonet, moderated by lawyer Yoon Bok-nam)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the January 2020 &#39;Data 3 Laws&#39; elevated the Personal Information Protection Commission to a central agency, lawyers, industry groups, consumer bodies, civil society and the Commission itself debated its top priorities [3]<\/li>\n<li>Key questions: balancing data protection with data use, securing independence from government data policy, and joining international privacy norm-setting [3]<\/li>\n<li>Civil-society advocates such as Chang Yeo-kyung (IDR) shared the panel with PIPC officials [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The Contact-Free Society and the Digital Divide \u2014 Shadows of the New Normal<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop sessions on contact-free culture and the digital divide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The digital divide widened by the sudden shift to contact-free life was a core workshop theme [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>As education, public services and commerce moved online, panels warned that older people and other digitally vulnerable groups risked being left behind [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. AI Ethics and the Future of the DNS \u2014 Lectures and an Open Domain-Policy Debate<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Two lecture sessions and an open meeting of KIGA&#39;s internet address resources subcommittee<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two lectures \u2014 on AI ethics guidelines and on the present and future of the DNS \u2014 paired policy debate with capacity building [1][4]<\/li>\n<li>An open debate on improving national (.kr) domain policy ran alongside, keeping address-resource stewardship in public view [1][4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. How did they hold a forum in the pandemic year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Fully online \u2014 a Zoom webinar with YouTube streaming. Registered participants joined interactively; everyone else could watch live, so the dialogue never stopped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the biggest debate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Epidemic control versus privacy. Korea&#39;s data-heavy contact tracing made the question of limits and oversight on crisis-time data use especially urgent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Every country faced the same trade-offs with contact-tracing apps. And Korea&#39;s debate over its newly empowered privacy regulator maps directly onto discussions about data-protection authorities elsewhere.<\/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-2020-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2020 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \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 2020 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=\"http:\/\/igf.or.kr\/2732\">\ud32c\ub370\ubbf9 \uc2dc\ub300\uc758 &#39;\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4&#39;\ub97c \ub17c\ud558\ub2e4\uff08\u30d1\u30f3\u30c7\u30df\u30c3\u30af\u6642\u4ee3\u306e\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u3092\u8ad6\u3058\u308b\uff09<\/a> \u2014 KrIGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08\u97d3\u56fd\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idr.jinbo.net\/535\">2020 \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) &#39;\ud32c\ub370\ubbf9 \uc2dc\ub300\uc758 \uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4 : \ub274\ub178\uba40, \uc5f0\uacb0, \uc548\uc804&#39; \uac1c\ucd5c\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u544a\u77e5\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u9032\u6b69\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc \u60c5\u5831\u4eba\u6a29\u7814\u7a76\u6240\uff08idr.jinbo.net\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.or.kr\/2533\">[\uc6cc\ud06c\uc0f5 7] \ud1b5\ud569 \uac1c\uc778\uc815\ubcf4\ubcf4\ud638\uc704\uc6d0\ud68c\uc5d0 \ubc14\ub780\ub2e4\uff08\u7d71\u5408\u500b\u4eba\u60c5\u5831\u4fdd\u8b77\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a\u306b\u671b\u3080\uff09<\/a> \u2014 KrIGF\u4e8b\u52d9\u5c40\uff08\u97d3\u56fd\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u30d5\u30a9\u30fc\u30e9\u30e0\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nkeconomy.com\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=3389\">KISA, 21\uc77c 2020 \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uac1c\ucd5c\uff08KISA\u300121\u65e5\u306bKrIGF 2020\u958b\u50ac\uff09<\/a> \u2014 NK\uacbd\uc81c\uff08NK\u7d4c\u6e08\uff09 (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) \uac1c\ucd5c \uc774\ub825\uff08KrIGF\u958b\u50ac\u5c65\u6b74\u8868\uff09<\/a> \u2014 KIGA\uff0f\ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uc815\ubcf4\uc13c\ud130\uff08KRNIC\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 4 October 2020, 13:00 (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>On 21 August 2020 the 9th Korea Internet Governance Forum went fully online for the first time (Zoom and YouTube), under the theme &#8216;Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,77,11],"tags":[163,161,160,2393,162,164],"class_list":["post-12732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igf","category-korea-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-koreaigf2020","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732","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=12732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}