However, as the Internet's usage increasingly saturate our society, its range of adverse consequences are creating such social problems as wonton defamation brought about by anonymous, irresponsible abuse of the freedom accorded by the Internet, invasion of privacy, circulation of illegal and harmful information such as pornography, violent contents, etc.

The Internet environment requires a sense of ethics by the users. People need to perceive the Internet as an important alternative space of living that requires understanding and consideration of the feelings of others. To create a wholesome Internet culture, our society has been instituting a range of measures such as establishing the "Information and Communication Ethics Code," providing training related to this Code, providing software to block obscene, spam mail, etc. If such efforts are carried out with a sense of ethics by each individual netizen who use the Internet, a beautiful and sound culture of Internet can be created.