{"id":12738,"date":"2023-07-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/07\/07\/en-korea-igf-2023-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T08:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2023-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2023\/07\/07\/en-korea-igf-2023-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2023) \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-2023-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2023 \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-2023-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2023 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 7 July 2023 the 12th Korea Internet Governance Forum met in hybrid form at Seoul&#39;s Franciscan Education Center, staging twelve sessions across AI, cybersecurity and governance tracks under the theme &#39;Change Up the Internet! Trustworthy AI Governance.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In its first edition after ChatGPT&#39;s debut, the forum confronted generative AI&#39;s use of copyrighted training data and creator protection, alongside .kr domain policy, the UN cybercrime treaty and even climate change.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The AI-copyright tension is being fought in every jurisdiction; Korea&#39;s format \u2014 creators, industry and regulators on one panel \u2014 is a template worth studying.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>The 12th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2023)<\/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-2023-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2023 \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>The 12th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>12th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>7 July 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Franciscan Education Center near Seodaemun, Seoul, hybrid with Zoom (09:40\u201318:00)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>Change Up the Internet! Trustworthy AI Governance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-hosted by 14 organisations including KISA (President Lee Won-tae), the Ministry of Science and ICT, and 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-2023-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2023 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Generative AI and Copyright \u2014 Training Data and Creator Protection<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 7 &#39;Copyright in AI Training Data and Creator Protection&#39; (moderated by Oh Byoung-il, Jinbonet)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the first KrIGF after ChatGPT&#39;s debut, panellists examined generative AI&#39;s impact on creative work, the legality of training on copyrighted works, protection of artistic style, and ownership of AI outputs [3]<\/li>\n<li>Representatives of the webtoon artists&#39; union sat alongside industry, academia and the Korea Copyright Commission \u2014 creators at the same table as regulators [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. .kr Domain Policy \u2014 From or.kr Eligibility to WHOIS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 2 &#39;National Domain Policy Issues and Future Directions&#39; (moderated by Yoon Bok-nam; presentations by Prof. Kang Kyung-ran of Ajou University and Oh Byoung-il of Jinbonet)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four questions were on the table: relaxing eligibility for the non-profit or.kr space, shortening regional domains (e.g. daegu.kr to dg.kr), creating new public second-level domains, and privacy in WHOIS lookups [4]<\/li>\n<li>The backdrop was stagnating .kr registrations while trendy strings like .ai boomed; KISA officials joined the panel [4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. A Broadening Agenda \u2014 From the UN Cybercrime Treaty to the Climate Crisis<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 11 &#39;International Regulation of Cybercrime: The UN Treaty Negotiations&#39; and Session 12 &#39;Internet Governance for Carbon Neutrality and the Climate Crisis&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With negotiations on the UN cybercrime convention in their final stretch, a session examined the direction of international cybercrime regulation [5]<\/li>\n<li>Another session framed carbon neutrality and the climate crisis as internet-governance issues, stretching the agenda to digital policy&#39;s outer edge [5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Youth Sessions \u2014 Young People Setting the Agenda<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Four youth sessions: data sovereignty, cybersecurity governance models, GPAI and Korea&#39;s response, and the role of youth in internet governance<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The active participation of diverse stakeholders is critically important (translated from Korean)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Park Jung-seop (Director, Digital Infrastructure, KISA)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Four of the twelve sessions were youth-proposed, with young participants leading debates on data-sovereignty models and Korea&#39;s response to AI governance initiatives such as GPAI [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Alumni of Asia-Pacific youth programmes help propose and run sessions \u2014 next-generation capacity building is now a structural feature of the forum [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What was the headline in 2023?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Generative AI. In the first edition after ChatGPT, the theme itself was &#39;Trustworthy AI Governance&#39; \u2014 and the webtoon artists&#39; union debated at the same table as industry and the Copyright Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. The most contentious point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Where to draw the AI-copyright line: is training on copyrighted works fair use, is artistic style protectable, and who owns AI outputs? The unresolved tension was the agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Every jurisdiction is fighting the same copyright battle over AI training data. Korea&#39;s multistakeholder session design offers a workable template for that debate.<\/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-2023-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2023 \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 2023 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:\/\/www.kisa.or.kr\/402\/form?postSeq=2290\">2023\ub144 \uc81c12\ud68c \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.dailysecu.com\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=147502\">2023\ub144 \uc81c12\ud68c \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uac1c\ucd5c\uff08\u7b2c12\u56deKrIGF\u958b\u50ac\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \ub370\uc77c\ub9ac\uc2dc\ud050\uff08Daily Secu\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.or.kr\/3388\">[\uc138\uc1587] \uc778\uacf5\uc9c0\ub2a5 \ud559\uc2b5 \ub370\uc774\ud130\uc758 \uc800\uc791\uad8c\uacfc \ucc3d\uc791\uc790 \ubcf4\ud638, \uc5b4\ub5bb\uac8c \ud560 \uac83\uc778\uac00?\uff08AI\u5b66\u7fd2\u30c7\u30fc\u30bf\u306e\u8457\u4f5c\u6a29\u3068\u5275\u4f5c\u8005\u4fdd\u8b77\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:\/\/igf.or.kr\/3372\">[\uc138\uc1582] \uad6d\uac00\ub3c4\uba54\uc778 \uc815\ucc45\uc774\uc288 \uacf5\uc720 \ubc0f \ubc1c\uc804\ubc29\ud5a5 \ud1a0\uc758\uff08\u56fd\u5bb6\u30c9\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3\u653f\u7b56\u30a4\u30b7\u30e5\u30fc\u306e\u5171\u6709\u3068\u767a\u5c55\u65b9\u5411\u8a0e\u8b70\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:\/\/igf.or.kr\/3564\">2023 \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uad6d\ubb38\ubcf4\uace0\uc11c\uff0f\uc601\ubb38\ubcf4\uace0\uc11c\uff08\u516c\u5f0f\u5831\u544a\u66f8\u30fb\u97d3\u56fd\u8a9e\/\u82f1\u8a9e\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<\/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 7 July 2023, 16:00 (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 7 July 2023 the 12th Korea Internet Governance Forum met in hybrid form at Seoul&#8217;s Franciscan Education Center, staging twelve sessions a<\/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":[163,161,160,703,162,164],"class_list":["post-12738","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-koreaigf2023","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738","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=12738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}