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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2019.17.1.073

Philosophical backgrounds of universal service in Korea and the US  

Kim, Sung-Wook (School of Media and Communication at Seoul Women's University)
Kwak, No-Jin (Department of Communication at University of Michigan)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.17, no.1, 2019 , pp. 73-84 More about this Journal
Abstract
By a comparative study of the philosophical backgrounds of universal service in Korea and the US, this research finds that Korea has paid little attention to the relations between universal service and basic human rights even though it has rapidly and successfully implemented universal service of telephone and the internet services in the past. Based on this key finding, it reaches a conclusion that Korea should adopt a new approach in implementing universal service in the future, considering the goals and contributions to the improvement of the basic human rights of universal service because economic goals have been main drivers of the implementation of universal service so far in Korea, which is not appropriate and suitable for the information society that new telecom services are rapidly emerging.
Keywords
Universal service; Net neutrality; Telephone service; Internet service; Mobile data service;
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