{"id":12739,"date":"2024-07-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/07\/09\/en-korea-igf-2024-overview\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2024-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2024\/07\/09\/en-korea-igf-2024-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2024) \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-2024-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2024 \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-2024-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2024 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 28 June 2024 the 13th Korea Internet Governance Forum met in hybrid form at Seoul&#39;s Franciscan Education Center, running twelve sessions under the theme &#39;The AI Era: Multistakeholder Governance for Safety and Human Rights.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Debate ran along the safety-versus-rights axis: Korea&#39;s role in global cybersecurity governance, the legitimacy of internet censorship by the Korea Communications Standards Commission, and a youth session on &#39;techno-feudalism&#39; challenging Big Tech&#39;s data dominance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the year the UN adopted the Global Digital Compact, KrIGF connected global agendas with a raw domestic censorship controversy \u2014 a model for linking international and national debates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>The 13th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2024)<\/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-2024-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2024 \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 13th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>13th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>28 June 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Franciscan Education Center, Seoul, hybrid with online participation and YouTube streaming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>The AI Era: Multistakeholder Governance for Safety and Human Rights<\/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 17 organisations including KISA (President Lee Sang-joong) and KIGA<\/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-2024-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2024 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Global Cybersecurity Governance \u2014 Searching for Korea&#39;s Role<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;Global Cybersecurity Governance Today and Korea&#39;s Role&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting professor Lee Chang-beom of Dongguk University mapped the landscape: rising ransomware, DDoS and AI-generated disinformation, plus state-backed attacks, attribution difficulty and the blurring line between crime and war [3]<\/li>\n<li>Dr Kim So-jeong of the Institute for National Security Strategy flagged poor information sharing among government, public bodies and industry; real-time sharing systems, interoperability and forensic cooperation were urged [3]<\/li>\n<li>Oh Byoung-il of Jinbonet pressed for transparency and inclusion of diverse voices in security policy consultations [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Internet Censorship by the KCSC \u2014 Is This Acceptable?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session &#39;Internet Censorship by the Korea Communications Standards Commission \u2014 Is It Acceptable As Is?&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dedicated session asked whether the Korea Communications Standards Commission&#39;s blocking of illegal and harmful content amounts to de facto internet censorship \u2014 a distinctly Korean controversy [2]<\/li>\n<li>The tension between tackling illegal content and protecting free expression made this the sharpest embodiment of the &#39;safety and human rights&#39; theme [2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Techno-Feudalism \u2014 A Youth Session Challenging Big Tech&#39;s Data Dominance<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 2 (Youth) &#39;Transnational Data Governance in the Age of Techno-Feudalism: A Political Inquiry&#39;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Young researchers argued that as Microsoft and Google build worldwide data centres for AI, capital- and data-rich firms rule &#39;digital fiefdoms&#39; on which other companies and users must live \u2014 techno-feudalism [4]<\/li>\n<li>Panellists from academia, KISA, Open Net and Kakao debated the inequalities produced by data and platforms, hardships at the periphery, and principles for a transnational governance model to overcome them [4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. UN Agendas and Ground-Level Infrastructure \u2014 GDC, Routing Security and .kr Policy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Sessions on the UN digital cooperation agenda, a routing-security tutorial, and Session 9 on creating new public second-level .kr domains<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The value of internet governance lies in drawing out sound policy by debating social issues from the perspectives of diverse stakeholders \u2014 government, academia, industry and civil society (translated from Korean)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Lee Sang-joong (President, Korea Internet &amp; Security Agency)<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>With the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact nearing adoption, a session on the UN digital cooperation agenda weighed Korea&#39;s response to the global process [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure and resource stewardship also featured: a tutorial on routing security and trust-building, the policy of creating new public second-level .kr domains, and a session on the past, present and future of .kr [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. Why &#39;safety and human rights&#39; in 2024?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Because the stronger the safety measures against AI risks and cyberattacks, the sharper the tension with rights like free expression. Debating Korea&#39;s cybersecurity role and KCSC censorship on the same day captured exactly that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What is &#39;techno-feudalism&#39;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The idea that Big Tech firms rule &#39;digital fiefdoms&#39; with their capital and data, leaving other companies and users to live on their platforms like tenants \u2014 debated head-on in a youth-led session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Governments everywhere had to respond to the UN&#39;s Global Digital Compact that year, and the balance between blocking harmful content and protecting speech is contested in every democracy.<\/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-2024-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2024 \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 2024 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=2420\">2024\ub144 \uc81c13\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.kisa.or.kr\/401\/form?postSeq=3289\">2024\ub144 \uc81c13\ud68c \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uac1c\ucd5c \uc548\ub0b4\uff08\u958b\u50ac\u6848\u5185\u30fb\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u4e00\u89a7\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:\/\/igf.or.kr\/3775\">\uae00\ub85c\ubc8c \uc0ac\uc774\ubc84\uc548\ubcf4 \uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4 \uce21\uba74\uc5d0\uc11c \ud55c\uad6d\uc758 \uc5ed\ud560\uc740 \ubb34\uc5c7\uc778\uac00\uff08\u30b0\u30ed\u30fc\u30d0\u30eb\u30fb\u30b5\u30a4\u30d0\u30fc\u5b89\u4fdd\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u97d3\u56fd\u306e\u5f79\u5272\u3068\u306f\u30fb\u30bb\u30c3\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u5831\u544a\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\/3628\">[\uc138\uc1582] (Youth) \ud14c\ud06c\ub178 \ubd09\uac74\uc8fc\uc758(Techno-feudalism)\uc2dc\ub300, \ucd08\uad6d\uc801 \ub370\uc774\ud130 \uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\uc5d0 \ub300\ud55c \uc815\uce58\uc801 \uace0\ucc30<\/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\/3827\">2024 \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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hXXMhRoVj4I\">[LIVE] 2024\ub144 \ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc(KrIGF) \uac1c\ud68c\uc2dd\uff08\u958b\u4f1a\u5f0f\u4e2d\u7d99\u30a2\u30fc\u30ab\u30a4\u30d6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 YouTube\uff08KrIGF\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb\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 9 July 2024, 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 28 June 2024 the 13th Korea Internet Governance Forum met in hybrid form at Seoul&#8217;s Franciscan Education Center, running twelve sessions <\/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":[163,161,160,1023,162,164],"class_list":["post-12739","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-koreaigf2024","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739","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=12739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}