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25 Sw. J. Int'l L. 100 (2019)
Fake News from a Legal Perspective: The United States and South Korea Compared

handle is hein.journals/sjlta25 and id is 108 raw text is: FAKE NEWS FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE: THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH KOREA COMPARED Ahran Park & Kyu Ho Youm* I. IN TRO DU CTION ...................................................................................... 100 II. FAKE NEWS AS A DEFINITIONAL QUESTION ..................................... 102 A . The U nited States .......................................................................... 103 B . South K orea .................................................................................. 103 III. LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF FAKE NEWS .......................................... 105 A . The U nited States .......................................................................... 105 B . South K orea .................................................................................. 110 III. REINVENTING THE WHEEL IN THE FAKE NEWS WORLD? ................ 112 A . The U nited States .......................................................................... 113 B . South K orea .................................................................................. 115 IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ........................................................... 119 I. INTRODUCTION Fake news has emerged as a pressing concern since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As media columnist Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times noted in November of 2016, [t]he internet-borne forces that are eating away at print advertising are enabling a host of faux-journalistic players to pollute the democracy with dangerously fake news items.' Similarly, The Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan, a former New York * Ahran Park is a senior researcher at the Korea Press Foundation in Seoul, South Korea. Kyu Ho Youm is Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. This article is the authors' updated and revised version of the authors' paper presented at the Fake News and Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives, symposium at Southwestern Law School on January 26, 2018. 1. Jim Rutenberg, Media's Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 6, 2016, at B1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/business/media/medias-next- challenge-overcoming-the-threat-of-fake-news.html?_r-0.