BKLOG

So I’ve been dealing with the fact that hulu.com doesn’t work in Korea.  I understand how licensing issues might be a problem.

I have even begrudgingly put up with the fact that every time I type ‘www.google.com’ into my address bar, I automatically get directed to some wacky Korean version that only seems to search sites in Hanguel.  I actually had to contact Google tech support to find out how to keep this from happening.

I made a supremely dorky video of a streetside food vendor that I wanted to upload to Youtube.  It was very interesting how this guy made rice cakes.  But when I went to upload today, this is the message that flashed across my screen:

“본인확인제로 인해 한국 국가 설정시 동영상/댓글 업로드 기능을 자발적으로 비활성화합니다.
We have voluntarily disabled this functionality on kr.youtube.com because of the Korean real-name verification law.”

What the fuck is the Korean real-name verification law?