{"id":12733,"date":"2021-10-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/23\/en-korea-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-10-23T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T09:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/10\/23\/en-korea-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2021) \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-2021-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2021 \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-2021-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The 10th Korea Internet Governance Forum met fully online for a second year on 20 August 2021, staging eleven workshops and one lecture under the theme &#39;A New Beginning: Governance for Equality, Fairness and Participation.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda captured pandemic-year strains: platform power and targeted advertising, digital inclusion of older people, human rights and democracy in Myanmar, and media literacy for teenagers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The milestone 10th edition asked, in effect, &#39;digitalisation for whom?&#39; \u2014 a question every ageing, platform-dependent society is now confronting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>The 10th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2021)<\/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; Fully online for the second consecutive year due to COVID-19<\/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-2021-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2021 \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 10th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2021)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>10th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>20 August 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Held online (Zoom with YouTube streaming, 10:00\u201317:50)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>A New Beginning: Governance for Equality, Fairness and Participation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Workshops<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-hosted by 14 organisations including KISA and KIGA, with support from the Ministry of Science and ICT and others<\/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-2021-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2021 \u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Platform Governance \u2014 Sustainable Ecosystems and Targeted Advertising<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: &#39;Sustainable Platform Governance&#39; (Programme Committee session), &#39;Targeted Advertising and Personal Data&#39; and related workshops<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Programme Committee itself convened a session on designing a sustainable platform ecosystem, as platform-regulation debates intensified in Korea [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>A dedicated workshop challenged how tech firms collect and use personal data for targeted advertising [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Digital Transformation and Ageing \u2014 Participation, Inclusion or Exclusion<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop 1 &#39;Digital Transformation and the Ageing Population: Participation, Inclusion or Exclusion&#39; (led by KISDI researchers)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers from KISDI asked squarely whether older Koreans would participate in, or be excluded by, rapid digital transformation [2]<\/li>\n<li>Panels warned that as contact-free services became the norm, the digital divide risked hardening from inconvenience into structural exclusion [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Human Rights and Democracy in Myanmar \u2014 Solidarity across Borders<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop &#39;Human Rights and Democracy in Myanmar&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following the February 2021 military coup in Myanmar, the programme included a session on the internet, human rights and democracy there [2]<\/li>\n<li>A national IGF putting another country&#39;s human-rights crisis on its agenda made this one of the year&#39;s most distinctive sessions [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Media Literacy for Teenagers \u2014 When 100% of Teens Are Online<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Workshop 4 &#39;The Direction of Media Literacy Education for Youth&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With surveys showing 100.0% internet use among Korean teens in 2020, the workshop tackled fake news and harmful content [3]<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledging the limits of school-only education, panellists called for programmes linking families, companies, civil society and young people themselves [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What marked the 10th edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The theme &#39;A New Beginning.&#39; Despite a second all-online year, the forum went back to first principles \u2014 equality, fairness, participation \u2014 and organised eleven workshops into three tracks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. The most striking session?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The one on Myanmar. A national forum in Korea put post-coup human rights and democracy squarely on its agenda, showing internet governance as a vehicle for cross-border solidarity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Digital exclusion of older people and the privacy cost of targeted advertising are universal issues \u2014 and they sharpen as governments push services online.<\/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-2021-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2021 \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 2021 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:\/\/kisa.or.kr\/402\/form?lang_type=KO&#038;page=&#038;postSeq=2057\">KISA, 2021 \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uac1c\ucd5c\uff08KISA\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u97d3\u56fd\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u632f\u8208\u9662\uff08KISA\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kisti.re.kr\/notifications\/post\/notice\/5326\">2021 \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uac1c\ucd5c \uc548\ub0b4\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185\u30fb\u30d7\u30ed\u30b0\u30e9\u30e0\u6982\u8981\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \u97d3\u56fd\u79d1\u5b66\u6280\u8853\u60c5\u5831\u7814\u7a76\u9662\uff08KISTI\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.or.kr\/2862\">[\uc6cc\ud06c\uc20d 4] \uccad\uc18c\ub144\uc758 \ubbf8\ub514\uc5b4 \ub9ac\ud130\ub7ec\uc2dc \uad50\uc721\uc774 \uc774\ub8e8\uc5b4\uc838\uc57c \ud560 \ubc29\ud5a5\uff08\u9752\u5c11\u5e74\u306e\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u30ea\u30c6\u30e9\u30b7\u30fc\u6559\u80b2\u306e\u65b9\u5411\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:\/\/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 23 October 2021, 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 10th Korea Internet Governance Forum met fully online for a second year on 20 August 2021, staging eleven workshops and one lecture unde<\/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":[163,161,160,901,162,164],"class_list":["post-12733","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-koreaigf2021","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733","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=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}