• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.199-225
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• 2007

This study deals with the regulatory policy of government on the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication by applying rent seeking theory to Internet Protocal TV (IPTV). Existing literature has mainly focused on the negative implications of rent seeking since Tullock [1967], Krueger [1974] and Buchanan [1980]. We have investigated the regulatory policy along with the progress of the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication. Regulatory policy on broadcasting, despite its impartial intent. has created the entry barrier in the industry, resulting in high rents. Meanwhile, regulatory policy in telecommunication is more geared by the encouragement of more competitive environments, resulting in reasonably low rents in the market. Regulatory policy in the age of convergence needs to improve the efficacy of the industry and welfare, while maintaining the rent at a reasonably low level. This research has contributed to emphasizing the positive aspect of rent seeking in policy concerned with the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunication, notably IPTV.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.237-253
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• 2018

In order to understand China's internet governance, this paper examined 1,931 Internet policies of China by bibliometric techniques. Specifically, the bibliometric techniques include simple document counting, co-word analysis, collaboration network analysis and citation analysis. The findings include: (1) China's Internet legislations mainly emphasized e-commerce and Internet governance, and, to some extent, neglected personal data protection; (2) China's Internet is under intensive multiple regulatory controls by central government. A large number of government agencies are involved in Internet policy-making. The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Information Leading Group of the State Council, enforced fewer policy documents, but occupy higher positions in the Internet governance hierarchy; (3) China's Internet legislation system is primarily composed of industry-specific administrative rules, rather than laws or administrative regulations. Nevertheless, laws and administrative regulations received significantly more citations owing to their superior force. This paper also discussed current gaps in China's internet governance and how the country's internet policies are situated in the broader global context.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권10B호
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• pp.929-935
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• 2006

When the Internet phone service, generally PC-to-Phone, first entered into the telecommunications service market, no regulatory issues were arisen to manage the service within the regulatory framework because of it's low quality, no phone number assignment and etc. However, almost the same quality, more applications and cheaper price compared with the fixed telecommunications service, have changed the regulator's policy allowing Internet phone service within market mechanism. While incumbent fixed telecommunications service enterprises had given with tremendous duties to continue the job categorized 'facilities-based telecommunication service provider', and which can be unreasonable and unfair if Internet phone service enterprises are allowed to enter into the fixed telecommunications market without any regulation. Thus, new regulatory framework has worked for the Internet phone service named the VoIP service generally in the fixed telecommunications market. Recently, VoIP is provided not only in the fixed telecommunications market but also in the mobile market as Wi-Fi phone is feasible in the wireless LAN environment. Furthermore, bundled service of Wi-Fi and cellular phone service will be launched soon, and the next version will be the mobile VoIP service operating like a cellular phone service. Hence, we will meet similar situation when the VoIP sewice enters into the fixed telecommunications service market. And, in this paper, we prospect the regulatory issues arising when the wireless or mobile VoIP service enterprises enter the mobile market, by analyzing possible scenarios.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.149-164
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• 2014

The laws and policies governing Korea's game regulations are becoming more and more topics for debate as we enter the Age of Internet. The nature of the basis for Internet regulations and policies are not rooted in freedom of speech or fundamental values of democracy, but rather focused on solving real-world problems such as protection of the youth. Furthermore, the reality is that regulatory devices for keeping the social order such as regulating gambling are being applied directly to games without consideration on the characteristics of Internet gaming, raising concerns that the expansion of constitutional values and innovative empowerment inherent to the Internet are being weakened. The Geun-Hye Park Administration which succeeded Myung-Bak Lee's Administration, even went so far as to implement the so-called "Shutdown Policy", which prohibits access to Internet games during pre-defined time zones and also instigated a time zone selection rule. In order to curb the gambling nature of Internet games, government-led policies such as the mandatory personal identification and prohibition of player selection or in other words mandatory random player selection are being implemented. These institutions can inhibit freedom of speech, which is the basis of democracy, violate the right of equality through unreasonable discrimination between domestic and foreign service providers, and infringe upon the principles of administrative law, such as laws, due process in policies, and balance in among policies and governmental bodies. Going forward, if Korea's Internet game regulations and polices is to develop in a rational manner, regulatory frameworks will need to be designed to protect the nature of the Internet and its innovative values that enable the realization of constitutional values; for example, the Internet acting as the "catalytic media for freedom of expression as a fundamental human right ", which has already been acknowledged by the Korea's Constitutional Court. At the same time, transparent procedures should be put into place that will allow diverse participation of stakeholders including game service providers, game users, the youth and parents in the legislation and enforcement process of regulatory institutions; policies will also need to be transformed to enable not only regulatory laws but also self-regulation system to be established. And in this process, scientific and empirical analysis on the expected effects before introducing regulations and the results of enforcing regulations after being introduced will need to be strengthened.

• 교육시설
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.5-20
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• 1999

With the advent of internet, the modern society is enjoying the benefits of the information age. As one of undesirable side effects of utilization of internet, however, it is often mentioned that young students are helplessly exposed to inappropriate and unqualified information. Therefore, in this paper, we will clarify the nature of inappropriate information to the younger generation and will argue for the needs of protecting the youth from inappropriate information. Especially the merits and limits of often motioned five different protective and regulatory measures are presented and analyzed, those are, establishment of acceptable use policy, active utilization of supervisory organization, promotion of Internet rating system, installation of filtering software, and legal and regulatory protection. As a fundamental means of resolving the problems, however, enforcement of systematic information literacy education, promotion of active utilization of sound information, development of search engines for the youth, design of diverse filtering softwares which can be selected by users, and increased attention by parents and teachers are suggested.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.133-145
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• 2018

본 논문은 최근 급성장하고 있는 공유경제플랫폼에 대한 바람직한 규제 방안을 논하고 있다. 디지털 기술의 발전과 혁신은 새로운 서비스, 새로운 경제, 산업 가치의 창출이라는 기대도 큰 반면, 기존 산업과의 이해 충돌에서 발생하는 사회적 신뢰 문제에 대한 우려와 도전, 과제들을 야기한다. 공유경제 역시 새로운 수요와 공급을 창출하고 혁신적인 거래방식으로 전 세계적으로 빠른 성장을 하고 있지만, 아직도 주요 도시에서는 기존 산업 가치와의 충돌이 야기하는 문제에 대해 제도적 측면에서의 한계점이 노출되고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 문제점을 최소화하기 위해 일정 수준의 규제가 필요함을 전제로 규제과정에서 수반되는 사회적 비용 최소화를 위해서 공유경제 특성을 고려한 공동규제(Co-regulation) 접근방안이 바람직함을 제안하고 있다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.215-226
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• 2017

본 연구는 유료방송시장 규제에 적용되는 공익성 개념을 고찰하고 유료방송시장을 규제하는 주요 방송 정책의 기조를 분석하였다. 지상파 방송의 공적 책무로 논의되는 다양성, 지역성, 품질 등의 방송의 공익성 개념은 유료방송산업이 발전하면서 보편적 접근, 공정 경쟁 및 소비자 보호로 확대 되었다. 하지만 공익성의 가치가 법제와 정책에 어떻게 반영될 것인가에 대한 구체적인 실천방안이 부족했으며 공익성과 산업성의 조화라는 가치는 제대로 구현되지 못했다. 유료방송 시장을 규제하는 주요 정책은 산업 성장에 대한 큰 그림 없이 추진되었다. 장기적인 청사진이 없는 정책추진은 임기응변식 수직적 규제체계로 이어져 미디어 융합시대의 규제의 정합성 문제가 야기 되었다. 유료방송 정책추진과정에서 공익성과 산업성의 논리는 혼재된 채로 각각 제대로 필요한 역할을 하지 못하거나 과도함이 문제로 지적되었다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2017

The world's unique geographical, multilingual, multiethnic, multiracial and multi religious Himalayan country Nepal has more than 100 years history on telephony service and it has been formulating appropriate policy and regulation for the adoption of new technology, introducing the competitive market environment for the overall development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures and application of ICT service and tools for socio-economic transformation. The Nepalese market seems to be continuously growing and having huge demand of mobile telephony and internet subscriptions trend. The ICT infrastructure development in difficult geographical area is quite challenging and thus operators are focusing mobile telephony and mobile internet services. Nepal has been doing its best effort on formulating policy and regulation, adoption key strategies for ICT sector development and at the same time joining hands with international and regional bodies such as ITU, SAARC etc for ICT sector development. Due to geographical diversity, policy and regulatory barriers in some extent, power supply constraints and low affordability from customers on ICT tools and services, Nepal has been facing challenges on ICT infrastructure development. However, the national statistics on ICT, Networked Readiness Index and ICT Development Index show that Nepal has done quite good progress and is keeping its pace on ICT development despite the these challenges. Moreover, there seems to be quite uncovered market segments on internet service and big opportunity on ICT sector development in Nepal in the days to come.

• 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디지털정책학회 2004년도 International Conference on Digital Policy & Management
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• pp.311-331
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• 2004

This paper addresses the democracy-oriented regulatory and legal requirements that e-democracy impacts. It demonstrates that the structure of the political system also plays a significant role in the decision to develop an e-voting application. The short term perspective of the questions put before the electorate obliterate the long term perspective in which many policy problems have to be seen. A well-designed e-voting system should produce an audit trail that is even stronger than that of conventional systems (including paper-based systems). Remote Internet voting systems pose significant risk to the integrity of the voting process, and should not be fielded for use in public elections until substantial technical and social science issues are addressed. Conclusively the paper focuses on the specific attributes an electronic voting (polling place) system should respect and ensure such as transparency, verifiability, accountability, security and accuracy in relation to the constitutional requirements such as General, Free. Equal, Secret, Direct and Democratic.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2015

국내에서는 일자리 창출 및 경기 회복을 위해 ICT 기술을 활용한 벤처 창업을 적극 지원하고, 이를 위해 다양한 규제개선 정책을 추진하고 있다. 규제개선 정책시행의 효율성을 극대화하기 위해서는 정책 수혜자의 의견이 정책 내용에 적극 반영되어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 정책의 수혜자인 창업자 중에서도 파급효과가 높은 ICT분야의 중소기업을 운영하는 CEO를 대상으로 정부에서 발표한 [벤처 창업 활성화를 위한 규제개선 추진방안] 내용의 중요도를 AHP 방법을 활용하여 분석하였다. 또한 2015년 3월 현재 규제개선 내용의 시행여부를 분석하여 이를 앞서 분석한 중요도와 결합하여 정책 시행의 효과성을 분석하였다. 분석결과 25가지 규제개선 내용이 1)효과기대 2) 제도시행의 시급성 필요 3) 미비시항 재정비 4) 검토 후 시행 후보군으로 분류되었다. 본 연구는 정성적인 규제개선 정책의 내용의 중요도를 정량적이고 학술적으로 분석하였다는데 의의가 있고, 향후 벤처 창업 활성화 정책의 수립 및 시행에 참고자료로 활용될 수 있다.