Netizens is a relatively recent combination word (from interNET + citIZENS). In this paper, it refers to all Internet users in Korea. Netizens in South Korea have also participated in street demonstrations, not limiting themselves to acquiring information and debating political issue from their personal computers. Although this progress has gradually become imbedded in the South Korean polity, a question remains unanswered: How strong is South Korean Netizens’ influence over politics? And to what extent are politically influential South Korean Netizens losing their vision and inadvertently undermining a democratic society? The unresolved tension in that question needs more attention from leaders and regular or occasional political activists in South Korean protest movements, as well as from others in South Korean civil society.
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