Korean Progressive Network 'Jinbonet'

Struggle for Access to Glivec
in South Korea
Solidarity Needed Now!!!

Yesterday more than thousand mainly teachers and their supporters, like students organized in Da-hamkke (All Together), took the streets of Seoul to protest against the government’s plans to implement NEIS

좀전에 보낸 시민사회 선언문과 별도로, 어제 발표된 정부간 선언문(안)의
보안(security) 분야에 대한 진보네트워크센터의 입장을 발표했습니다.

2003년 7월 18일
WSIS intersessional Paris 참가단

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Korea Progressive Network ‘Jinbonet’

Statement on paragraphs 34-37 of the new Draft Declaration of Principles
Document WSIS03/PICP/DT/4(Rev.2)-E

Civil Society Information Security and Privacy Working Group submitted a
Statement on the new Draft of Principles on 17. July. We appreciate the
endeavor of the Working Group a

아래와 같은 한국 시민사회의 WSIS에 대한 선언문을
WSIS intersessional 회의장에 배포했습니다.

2003년 7월 18일
WSIS intersessional Paris 참가단

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Statement of Korean Civil Society Network for WSIS

This statement has been prepared after diverse issues regarding
information society were reviewed and discussed at Korean civil society
workshop for the world summit on the information society (WSIS), and
contains the common consensus of Korean civil societies to information
socie

This statement has been prepared after diverse issues regarding information society were reviewed and discussed at Korean civil society workshop for the world summit on the information society (WSIS), and contains the common consensus of Korean civil societies to information society. The groups and individuals who signed at the bottom are those who support this statement. And this statement is open to criticism and will be updated continuously.

Civil Society Information Security and Privacy Working Group submitted a Statement on the new Draft of Principles on 17. July. We appreciate the endeavor of the Working Group and we basically agree with the comments. Moreover we want to comment more to the new draft Declaration of Principles. We hope our comment to be taken into consideration at the future process of WSIS.

The union cites legitimate security concerns for its opposition to the system, which initiated and supported by the ministry of education. After a four-day sit-in struggle last week in Seoul’s Hullyeonwon Park, to show their strong opposition against NEIS last Saturday the teachers organized in the KTEWU took the streets of Seoul.

June 18th, 2003, nine human rights activists in South Korea starts hunger strike struggle on the street against National Education Information System (NEIS) for an indefinite period.

We have very serious concerns that the Japanese government decided not to invite North Korea to the Asian Regional Conference for World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and we hope Japanese Government as a host of this regional meeting should make a sincere effort to invite all Asian countries including North Korea to this meeting.

Beginning with the issues raised and seeking to positively contribute to the Asian Regional Conference and to the WSIS process at the global level, the 33 participants have come to a consensus on the following vision, principles and plan of action.

This is a joint statement of national, regional and international NGOs participating at the Asian Civil Society Forum of the Conference of Non-governmental Organizations in Consultative Relations with the United Nations (CONGO).

[성명서]
일본 정부는 ‘정보사회 세계정상회의 (World Summit on the Information Society)를 위한 아시아 지역회의’에 북한을 초청해야 한다!

2003년 1월 13일부터 15일까지, 일본 동경에서는 ‘정보사회 세계정상회의를 위한 아시아 지역회의’가 개최된다. 이 회의에 일본 정부는 북한을 초청국에서 제외했다고 한다. 우리는 북한에 대한 일본 정부의 부당한 행태에 대해 비판하여, 즉시 북한을 초청할 것을 일본정부에 요구한다.

정보사회 세계정상회의는 2003년 말, UN 주최로 개최되는 정보사회에 대해 논의하는 중요한 자리이다. 정보사회는 경제, 정치, 사회, 교육, 미디어, 인권 및 개발 등 전 세계적으로 우리들의 삶에 많은 변화를 줄 것이다. 따라서, 이 회의는 정부, 기업, NGO들을 포함한 모든 이해당사자들이 어떠한 조건 없이 참여할 수 있는 공간이어야 하며, 이는 이미 UN에 의해 선언된 바 있다. UN은 정보사회 세계정상회의를 소개하는 문서에서 “정보사회세

On August 28th, an open conference on the role of digital libraries was held at the hall of the National Human Rights Commission in Seoul, South Korea

The National Health Insurance System Board held talks on September 6 to try decide the retail price of Gleevec, a cancer drug used for treating leukemia, only to end by delaying the talks even further. One year has passed since the problem of Gleevec first arose.

Korean civil society organizations (CSOs) held an open discussion regarding the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at 3 p.m., September 25th, at the conference hall of the National Human Rights Commission of South Korea.

Police arrested Kim Kang-pil, a member of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) in South Korea on July 25th. Kim uploaded several materials related to North Korea onto the bulletin board of DLP website. Prosecution claimed his actions violated the National Security Law, Article 7, Clause 1 (an act advantageous to the enemy) and Clause 5 (bringing the materials of profit to the enemy); in this clause enemy means North Korea.

Only by this kind of public support was Novartis able to recollect all invested capital within eight months of global marketing of Gleevec. But now, Novartis has twenty years of intellectual property rights.

On July 9th, the Suwon District Court made preliminary decision against Soribada (http://www.soribada.com), a Peer to Peer (P2P) program for MP3 file sharing, should be suspended. This is the first judgement regarding this type of case since the Korean recording industry accused the Soribada managers of infringement of copyrights last January and the prosecution indicted them last August. Though the final decision for the prosecution indictment has not been decided, we are seriously worried about this judgement.

On June 27, the South Korean consitutional court ruled that Article 53 of the Electronic Communication Business law, as well as Article 16 of an enforcement ordinance ot the law, otherwise knows as “regulation of dangerous communication,” were unconstitutional for violating freedom of expression.

On May 3rd, prosecutors charged Jeon Ji-Yoon, a Sungkonhoe University student and a member of “Dahamkke,” the Democratic Labor Party’s student committee, for violation of the National Security Law (NSL). According to prosecutors, this violation stemmed from statements made by Jeon on an internet bulletin board. Jeon has been in prison since May 7th.