Hello Cheol, first of all, we are all very concerned about this issue and we are still sorting things out. So more informations especially from you in the country would be of great value.
To your question at first: According to the comScore data ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore ) the Korean Wikipedia had in February 2009 more than 1.1 million visitors. I suppose most of them come from South Korea, so, yes, we have quite certain more than 100,000 visitors from South Korea. My understanding about Google and YouTube is that they decided to close down their subsidiary in South Korea. There are two things that I don't understand at the moment: First, as far as I know companies that are based in South Korea or have subsidiaries there have to obey the law. But how is it with companies outside of South Korea? Is it in the text of the law that website of such companies could be blocked? The second thing that I don't quite understand until now is that it seems they had submitted the law but have decided not to enforce it. Is that the situation at the moment? (This is in so far confusing for me as it says that the gouvernment itself doesn't obey or doesn't expect its citizen to obey the law of the country, which put the total legal system in question.) A rough translation of the law (or the critical part of it) would be helpful for us to judge the situation. Though the reason for your mail is not happy I am happy that you contacted us here. The korean community is until now very very underpresented here and the prospect to have a chapter there one day is very exciting. Ting RYU Cheol wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by no business in South Korea. > The foundation is in Florida, so you don't need to abide by the law of > United Kingdom? > > But I'm an contributing editor of Wikipedia residing in South Korea > and some of ko.wp editors are preparing to establish South Korea > chapter to promote Free Culture Movement. South Korean editors have to > abide by the regulations of Korean government. > > I want to know if we have visitors more than 100,000 from South Korea or not? > > -Cheol > > 2009/4/9 Nathan <[email protected]>: > >> Assuming it isn't an April Fool's joke, the fact remains that the Wikimedia >> Foundation is not bound to abide by the laws of South Korea. Google had >> business there, presumably, while the Foundation does not. >> >> Nathan >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
