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Kyung-sin Park

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Tags south-korea, seoul, east-asia, korean, lawyer, law-professor, co-founder, executive-director, open-net-korea, korea-university, korea-university-law-school, harvard, ucla-law, uc-irvine, echoing-green-fellow, korean-immigrant-workers-advocates, kiwa, pspd, pspd-law-center, korea-communications-standards-commission, korea-film-council, national-media-commission, global-network-initiative, gni, freedom-online-coalition, high-level-panel-on-media-freedom, manila-principles, necessary-and-proportionate-principles, digital-rights, freedom-of-expression, net-neutrality, intermediary-liability, ai-and-human-rights, ai-basic-act, deepfakes, public-official-election-act, strategic-litigation, internet-real-name-law, constitutional-litigation

Kyung-sin Park · 3 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

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03 · Background

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Korean lawyer and Professor of Law at Korea University Law School; co-founder and Executive Director of Open Net Korea since its 4 February 2013 founding. The organisation's principal public-facing legal advocate, widely referenced as K.S. Park, and the named author of the constitutional and policy critiques on which Open Net's recent AI work rests — including the October 2025 constitutional complaint against Article 82-8(1) of the Public Official Election Act (the 90-day pre-election prohibition on AI-generated images, videos, and sounds for election campaigning) and the Global Free Speech Summit critique of the Korean AI Basic Act as a structural opening to government censorship of "high impact AI".

Park holds an A.B. in Physics from Harvard University (1992) and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law (1995). He was a 1995 Echoing Green Global Fellow with Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA) in Los Angeles, where the fellowship funded immigrant-worker organising and living-wage campaigning in Koreatown. He returned to Korea and served as International Relations Counsel at the Korea Film Council from 2002 to 2007, then led the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) Law Center as Executive Director — the PSPD start date is recorded as 2006 on Park's GNI member profile and as 2008 on his UCI faculty page; sources differ — through the period in which the centre organised high-impact free-speech, privacy, and copyright litigation that fed directly into the founding-cohort agenda of Open Net.

At Korea University, Park founded the Korea University Law Review and the Law Schools' Clinical Legal Education Center and spearheaded its internetlawclinic.org and transparency.or.kr programmes — the latter the centre's national transparency-reporting project on government surveillance and censorship requests. He is currently Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, holding the visiting position concurrently with his Korea University professorship and his Open Net executive directorship.

Park's Korean government and public-body service spans Commissioner of the Korea Communications Standards Commission from 2011 to 2014 — the presidentially appointed body that regulates internet content under Korean broadcasting and telecommunications law, and the body whose administrative censorship powers Open Net has contested across the life of the organisation — and membership of the Parliament-appointed National Media Commission in 2010, the advisory body on newspaper-broadcasting co-ownership bans and other media and Internet regulations.

Internationally, Park joined the Global Network Initiative in 2015 and serves on its board, sits on the Advisory Network to the Freedom Online Coalition, and served until 2020 on the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom convened by the UK–Canada Media Freedom Coalition. He is a named co-author of the Necessary and Proportionate Principles on Communications Surveillance and the Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability, the two foundational international civil-society standards on government surveillance and platform liability that anchor Open Net's intermediary-liability and surveillance work and that have been adopted across the Association for Progressive Communications network in which Open Net sits.

04 · Sources

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9 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. law.uci.edu

    Checked 2026-05-18

    UC Irvine School of Law visiting-faculty page for Kyung Sin Park — primary source for the Korea University Law School professorship, the UCI visiting professorship, the A.B. in Physics from Harvard (1992) and J.D. from UCLA School of Law (1995), the Korea Communications Standards Commission commissionership (2011-2014), the National Media Commission membership (2010), the Korea Film Council International Relations Counsel role (2002-2007), the PSPD Law Center executive directorship (start date 2008 on this page), the Global Network Initiative board membership, the Advisory Network to Freedom Online Coalition membership, the High-Level Panel on Media Freedom membership (until 2020), and Park's founding of the Korea University Law Review and the Law Schools' Clinical Legal Education Center

  2. globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Columbia Global Freedom of Expression expert profile — independent secondary source for Park's status as co-founder and Executive Director of Open Net, his Korea University Law School professorship, and his named co-authorship of the Necessary and Proportionate Principles on Communications Surveillance and the Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability

  3. globalnetworkinitiative.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Global Network Initiative member-profile page for K.S. Park — primary source for the 2013 Open Net Korea founding, the PSPD Law Center executive directorship (dated 2006-2016 on this page; the UCI faculty page records the start year as 2008, so the precise start year is unverifiable from current sources), and Park's 2015 GNI accession

  4. fellows.echoinggreen.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Echoing Green Fellows Directory entry — primary source for Park's 1995 Echoing Green Global Fellowship, awarded for work with Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA) in Los Angeles on improving working conditions and immigrant-worker empowerment in Korean ethnic industries

  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Wikipedia organisational article on Open Net Korea — secondary corroboration that Park Kyung-sin is one of the seven named co-founders alongside Kim Keechang, Nam Heesob, Jeon Eung-hui, Woo Jisuk, Kang Jung Soo, and Kim Borami, and that the organisation was founded on 4 February 2013 in the immediate aftermath of the August 2012 Constitutional Court ruling against the internet real-name law

  6. opennetkorea.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Open Net Korea's own Board page — primary source for Park Kyung-sin's current Executive Director role and his concurrent professorship at Korea University Law School

  7. opennetkorea.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Open Net Korea author archive for Kyung-sin Park — primary source for his designation as Director of Open Net and for the breadth of his current advocacy across free speech, net neutrality, privacy, intellectual property, innovation/regulation, and open government, plus recent international convening (APrIGF 2024 in Taiwan and Bangkok, Latin American policymaker consultations, UN-body engagement)

  8. opennetkorea.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Open Net's announcement of the constitutional complaint against Article 82-8(1) of the Public Official Election Act — primary source for the 1 October 2025 filing and Park's leadership of the constitutional challenge to the AI-deepfake-specific election-law prohibition

  9. opennetkorea.org

    Checked 2026-05-18

    Open Net's report on Park's Global Free Speech Summit Nashville presentation (14 October 2025) — primary source for his eight-point critique of the Korean AI Basic Act and the canonical Open Net position that the law "makes the government's role prominent in vetting high impact AI, which opens up a possibility for government censorship"

Source: entities/persons/person-kyung-sin-park.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.