In 2013, around 23,000 South Korean webpages were deleted and another 63,000 blocked by the KCSC. Every week, portions of the South Korean web are taken down by the KCSC. The reason for the new law was to combat cyberbullying in South Korea. A second change made by the government was to allow KCSC to suspend or delete any web posting or articles for 30 days as soon as a complaint is filed. The first major change by the Lee Myung-bak government was to require websites with over 100,000 daily visitors to make their users register their real name and social security numbers. The South Korean government passed a law that created a new agency called the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) to replace the ICEC, becoming the new South Korean Internet regulation and censorship body. In 2008, the election of President Lee Myung-bak was followed by the inauguration of major reforms to broadcast censorship. In 2007, over 200,000 incidents of cyberbullying were reported. During this time, there was political drive to increase extensive internet censorship, in part as a response to cases of suicide associated with online rumors. This allowed the ICEC to engage in more sophisticated internet policing and other bureaucratic entities to monitor the Internet for illegal speech or take down websites that violated the laws. ДЇrom 2002 to 2008, the government passed a revision of the TBA legislation. In the first eight months of 1996, the ICEC took down roughly 220,000 messages on Internet sites. The ICEC pursued criminal prosecutions of those who made unlawful statements and blocked several foreign websites. Passing of the act lead to the establishment of the Internet Communications Ethics Committee (ICEC), which would monitor the Internet and make recommendations for content to be removed. Any and all material deemed 'harmful' or subversive by the state is censored.ДЇrom 1995 to 2002, the government of South Korea passed the Telecommunications Business Act (TBA), the first internet censorship law in the world. South Korea is also one of the few developed countries where pornography is largely illegal, with the exception of social media websites which are a common source of legal pornography in the country. In South Korea, internet censorship is prevalent compared to other developed countries, containing some unique elements such as the blocking of pro- North Korea websites, which led to it being categorized as 'pervasive' in the conflict/security area by OpenNet Initiative. Overview of Internet censorship in South Korea

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