Monitoring Racial Discrimination Comments on the Internet
As of late December, 2010, migrants constituted 2 per cent of the entire population in South Korea, exceeding 1,270,000. The types of migrants are becoming diverse from migrant workers, overseas Koreans, marriage migrants to refugees and international students. The Korea Statistics anticipated that migrants will make up 5 per cent of the whole population in 2020 and 9.2 per cent in 2050.
In order to promote understanding among different races and ethnicities as prescribed in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the NHRCK formed a university student monitoring group to monitor racial discrimination comments on the Internet on 1 – 31 October 2010. The monitoring results showed that the degree of racial discrimination comments in Korean society reached a serious level.
Thus, the NHRCK presented the following opinion to the Minister of Justice and the Chairperson of the Korea Internet Self-governance Organization Committee.
The NHRCK expressed its opinion to the Minister of Justice that appropriate regulatory measures on expressions instigating racism on the Internet should be included in the formulation of its policy on migrants.
The NHRCK also delivered its opinion to the Chairperson of the Korea Internet Self-governance Organization Committee that the effective voluntary measures should be adopted to prevent the dissemination of racial discrimination comments.
