Kim Sang-hun, CEO of NHN Corp, which runs South Korea’s leading portal website Naver, apologized Thursday for negligence in monitoring an online comic that contained sexual violence and inappropriate scenes.

On Tuesday, a high school student uploaded an obscene post titled "Noise" on a cartoon section that allows amateur artists to share their user created content.

The cartoon depicted a man kidnapping an elementary school student and sexually assaulting her with a comment saying “I don’t care if I die now, because I raped a girl.”

“I feel a stong sense of responsibility for 10 million users of Naver. The company will take measures to prevent this kind of incident and make sure it will never happen again,” Kim said in a statement.

“The company will suspend the UCC comic section for a week and check the monitoring policy, ” he added.



(khnews@heraldcorp.com)