SOUTH KOREA: Ninety-six percent of South Koreans – more than any country surveyed – agree that Internet access is their fundamental right. But along with Chinese and Thai web users, fewer than 1 in 5 Koreans told the BBC that the Internet is a good place to find a romantic partner. But more than any other country, Koreans look to the Internet for information and cite the loss of privacy as their main Internet-related worry. An employee of the Korea Internet Security Center looks on while working at a monitoring room in Seoul in the wake of cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and US websites in July 2009.

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