{"id":12742,"date":"2025-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/07\/01\/en-korea-igf-2025-overview\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:00:00","slug":"en-korea-igf-2025-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2025\/07\/01\/en-korea-igf-2025-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 14th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2025) \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-2025-overview_thumbnail-2.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2025 \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-2025-overview_s3-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2025 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 3 July 2025 the 14th Korea Internet Governance Forum returned to Sejong University in Seoul after six years, staging nine sessions across AI, governance and digital-responsibility tracks under the theme &#39;The Future of Internet Governance: The Path We Must Take.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The agenda was ripped from the headlines: military AI and human rights via the &#39;Lavender&#39; system used in Gaza strikes, Korea&#39;s stance on the WSIS+20 review, and April 2025&#39;s massive SK Telecom USIM data breach read through the lens of &#39;ontological security.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>With the IGF&#39;s mandate at stake in WSIS+20, every country faced the same homework; and Korea&#39;s framing of a telecom mega-breach as a question of citizens&#39; anxiety offers a fresh angle on incident response debates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>The 14th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2025)<\/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 forum&#39;s first return to Sejong University since the 8th edition in 2019<\/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-2025-overview_h2-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2025 \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 14th Korea Internet Governance Forum (KrIGF 2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Edition<\/td>\n<td>14th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>3 July 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>Sejong University, Gwanggaeto Building B1, Seoul, hybrid with online participation (09:00\u201318:00)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>The Future of Internet Governance: The Path We Must Take<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sessions<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>Co-hosted by 20 organisations including KISA 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-2025-overview_minutes-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2025 \u30bd\u30a6\u30eb \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Military AI and Human Rights \u2014 From &#39;Lavender&#39; in Gaza to Korea&#39;s Autonomous Weapons<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 7 &#39;Military AI Threatening Human Rights and Peace&#39; (AI track, moderated by AI Ethics Letter)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Citing defence contractors such as Palantir and the &#39;Lavender&#39; AI system used in Israeli strikes on Gaza, the session argued AI has entered the stage of directly informing life-and-death decisions [4]<\/li>\n<li>Korea&#39;s own rapid adoption of drones, autonomous weapons and AI-based command-and-control was said to be outpacing debate on human-rights and social impacts [4]<\/li>\n<li>The panel was strikingly diverse \u2014 from a KISA security-technology director to Amnesty International Korea, a Palestine solidarity group and overseas tech-worker activists [4]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. WSIS+20 and the IGF&#39;s Future \u2014 Korea&#39;s Move at the 20-Year Mark<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 8 &#39;WSIS+20 and Responding to Global Internet Governance Debates&#39; (Governance track, led by KISDI)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahead of the WSIS+20 review, panellists debated strengthening the WSIS process and the IGF&#39;s role, and Korea&#39;s position on sustainable IGF funding and greater inclusiveness [5]<\/li>\n<li>KISDI chaired and keynoted, with KISA, Kakao, Jinbonet and academia mapping government, industry and civil-society responses [5]<\/li>\n<li>Closing the digital divide and ensuring equitable access were revisited as WSIS&#39;s founding concerns [5]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. The SK Telecom USIM Breach and &#39;Ontological Security&#39; \u2014 Data Protection in an Age of Anxiety<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 9 &#39;In an Age of Anxiety, Is Your Data Safe?&#39; (Digital Responsibility track)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Responding to the massive leak of SK Telecom subscribers&#39; USIM data discovered on 22 April 2025, the session focused on user anxiety beyond technical damage \u2014 amplified by the company&#39;s inadequate response and swirling uncertainty [6]<\/li>\n<li>Introducing the concept of &#39;ontological security,&#39; it framed data breaches as threats to the stability of personal identity, asking where responsibility lies and whether current law suffices [6]<\/li>\n<li>University researchers presented, with discussants from KISA, industry, the bar and civil society linking the incident to institutional reform [6]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Trust in the AI Era \u2014 Voice Phishing, Digital Twins and Domain Liberalisation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Session 6 on AI-driven voice phishing, Session 3 on digital twins, Session 4 on Korea&#39;s public AI-ethics discourse, and a session on opening restricted domain names<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;AI is permeating every corner of society and unpredictable issues arise daily; discussion among diverse stakeholders will be a vital foundation for sound internet public policy (translated and abridged from Korean)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Park Jung-seop (Head of KRNIC, the Korea Network Information Center, KISA)<\/strong> [2][3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>AI-powered voice phishing got its own session as a threat to digital trust, alongside sessions on the public discourse of AI ethics and the two faces of digital-twin technology [2][3]<\/li>\n<li>The governance track also debated opening up restricted domain names \u2014 classic resource stewardship sharing the bill with AI-era trust issues across nine sessions [2][3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. The biggest issue in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The future of internet governance itself. In the year of the WSIS+20 review \u2014 with the IGF&#39;s mandate on the line \u2014 government, industry and civil society debated Korea&#39;s position at one table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. The rawest topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The SK Telecom USIM breach. A leak affecting tens of millions of subscribers was debated not as a technical failure but as a crisis of public anxiety and identity security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Every country had WSIS+20 homework that year, telecom mega-breaches can happen anywhere, and the military-AI debate \u2014 from Gaza to autonomous weapons \u2014 concerns any security-conscious society.<\/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-2025-overview_h1-1.svg\" alt=\"Korea IGF 2025 \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 2025 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.kr\/402\/form?postSeq=2512\">2025\ub144 \uc81c14\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.ddaily.co.kr\/page\/view\/2025070315002010305\">&#39;\ud55c\uad6d\uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\ud3ec\ub7fc&#39; \uac1c\ucd5c\u2026AI\u00b7\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4\u00b7\ub514\uc9c0\ud138\ucc45\uc784 \ub17c\uc758\uff08\u97d3\u56fdIGF\u958b\u50ac\u3001AI\u30fb\u30ac\u30d0\u30ca\u30f3\u30b9\u30fb\u30c7\u30b8\u30bf\u30eb\u8cac\u4efb\u3092\u8b70\u8ad6\uff09<\/a> \u2014 \ub514\uc9c0\ud138\ub370\uc77c\ub9ac\uff08Digital Daily\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(KrIGF) \u30bb\u30df\u30ca\u30fc\u60c5\u5831<\/a> \u2014 \u5927\u97d3\u6c11\u56fd\u56fd\u4f1a\u56f3\u66f8\u9928\uff08NANET\uff09 (accessed 2026-07-11)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/igf.or.kr\/3915\">[\uc138\uc1587] \uc778\uad8c\uacfc \ud3c9\ud654\ub97c \uc704\ud611\ud558\ub294 \uad70\uc0ac \uc778\uacf5\uc9c0\ub2a5\uff08\u4eba\u6a29\u3068\u5e73\u548c\u3092\u8105\u304b\u3059\u8ecd\u4e8b\u4eba\u5de5\u77e5\u80fd\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\/3918\">[\uc138\uc1588] WSIS+20\uc640 \ud5a5\ud6c4 \uad6d\ub0b4\uc678 \uae00\ub85c\ubc8c \uc778\ud130\ub137\uac70\ubc84\ub10c\uc2a4 \ub17c\uc758 \ub300\uc751 \ubc29\ud5a5<\/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\/3925\">[\uc138\uc1589] \ubd88\uc548\uc758 \uc2dc\ub300, \ub2f9\uc2e0\uc758 \uc815\ubcf4\ub294 \uc548\ub155\ud558\uc2ed\ub2c8\uae4c?\uff08\u4e0d\u5b89\u306e\u6642\u4ee3\u3001\u3042\u306a\u305f\u306e\u60c5\u5831\u306f\u5b89\u5be7\u3067\u3059\u304b\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\/3974\">2025 \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 1 July 2025, 11:00 (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 3 July 2025 the 14th Korea Internet Governance Forum returned to Sejong University in Seoul after six years, staging nine sessions across<\/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":[163,161,160,1025,162,164],"class_list":["post-12742","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-koreaigf2025","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742","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=12742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}