Korea’s Online Clash

The Quest for a DMZ Between Privacy and Security

South Korea is among the world’s most wired places. Seoul metro passengers stream KBO baseball games on their tablet PCs while native search companies Naver and Daum provide high-quality street views that outmatch the Google equivalent. High technology is at the heart of Korean industry and society; the country is renowned for its high-speed fiber-optic Internet connections, ubiquitous Wi-Fi networks, and relatively cheap unlimited data plans. And few nations have grappled as forcefully with the trade-offs between online security and online anonymity, having ditched the latter to strengthen the former. …