South Korea

=== Cyber security ===
{{See also|Internet censorship in South Korea}}
Following [[2013 South Korea cyberattack|cyberattacks]] in the first half of 2013, whereby government, news-media, television station, and bank websites were compromised, the national government committed to the training of 5,000 new cybersecurity experts by 2017. The South Korean government [[Bureau 121|blamed North Korea]] for these attacks, as well as incidents that occurred in 2009, 2011 and 2012, but Pyongyang denies the accusations.<ref name="Jun">{{cite news|title=Seoul Puts a Price on Cyberdefense|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/09/23/seoul-puts-a-price-on-cyberdefense/|access-date=24 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=23 September 2013|author=Kwanwoo Jun|archive-date=25 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925102342/http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/09/23/seoul-puts-a-price-on-cyberdefense/|url-status=live}}</ref> South Korea's government maintains a broad-ranging approach toward the regulation of specific online content and imposes a substantial level of [[Censorship in South Korea|censorship]] on election-related discourse and on many websites that the government deems subversive or socially harmful.<ref>{{cite news |title=South Korean war on 'fake news' raises concern of censorship |url=https://www.apnews.com/3d14a9663b114644a36e123a7c7bf9b1 |work=Reuters |date=26 October 2018 |access-date=14 September 2019 |archive-date=11 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111160909/https://apnews.com/3d14a9663b114644a36e123a7c7bf9b1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Is South Korea Sliding Toward Digital Dictatorship? |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvolodzko/2019/02/25/is-south-korea-sliding-toward-digital-dictatorship/ |work=[[Forbes]] |date=25 February 2019 |access-date=14 September 2019 |archive-date=5 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205192451/https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvolodzko/2019/02/25/is-south-korea-sliding-toward-digital-dictatorship/ |url-status=live }}</ref>