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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 11 > Cyberthugs infect South Korean Net

Cyberthugs infect South Korean Net

Malicious online attacks aren’t unique to Korea, of course, but experts point to a couple of factors that make them particularly virulent there

By John M. Glionna / The Bulletin
January 11, 2010

SEOUL — When German-born fashion journalist Vera Hohleiter poked fun in print at the smell of kimchi and the short skirts of South Korean women, the response was swift and nasty.

Incensed Seoul Internet users flooded her blog with insults, calling her a racist and a Nazi, and demanded that she....

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