DC Inside

DC Inside

URL	dcinside.com
Commercial?	Yes (partly)
Type of site	Internet forum
Registration	Optional
Owner	Kim Yusik
Created by	Kim Yusik
Launched	October 1999
Current status	Active

DC Inside (디시인사이드) frequently noted under the initialism DC, is a South Korean internet forum. Initially established as a community dedicated to digital cameras and photography, it has met broad notoriety in Korea due to its unique nature. Among Western media, it is analogous to the English-language website 4chan for its image and influence upon Korean internet culture.^[1]

Overview

DC Inside was opened in October 1999 by Kim Yusik as a community of interest towards discussion specifically pertaining to digital cameras and photography, hosting only a few categorized image boards. The nascent website was primarily populated by early adopters of electronic devices, but later expanded contiguously to the propagation of additional image boards. Presently, it hosts over 500 active boards, and Kim anticipates the count to multiply to over 1000 by the latter half of 2007.^[2]

DC Inside does not depart from popular bulletin board systems used in Korea, operating a free-to-use script called "Zeroboard". Due to security vulnerabilities and bandwidth issues surrounding Zeroboard, many have publicly expressed their frustration recently in regards to the matter.^[2]

Board topics range from generic categories such as socio-politics, science and sports to particular subjects such as those committed to individual celebrities. New galleries with other topics are acknowledged and created if deemed appropriate by the site administrator.

Culture

Like similar web-based public-manipulating communities, it is difficult to define this growing community, for general totalitarian atmosphere differ tackily about the variety of a board. The Japanese internet forum 2channel is often likened to as its counterpart, serving similar purpose and sharing its chaotic nature and large size.

Members of DC Inside identify themselves as a "galler"(갤러), meaning "an inhabitant of a gallery". This term is used as a suffix to be tied to the name of a gallery, coining a new term such as "makjang galler"(an inhabitant of the makjang gallery). Although the topic of each gallery varies, the majority of members espouse a cultural foundation unique to DC Inside, sharing thoughts in "DC slang" and "DC mentality" (a.k.a leftistism).

In accordance to its status as an image board, during the entirety of its subsistence, DC Inside has produced a large quantity of internet phenomena existing in South Korea today. The immensity of significance in Korea has led to the creation of the term "surrogate website", often referred to rival communities in order to bolster its image.

List of Gallery

Gallery is like a forum in dcinside community.

KAIST Gallery Seoul National University Gallery UNIST Gallery POSTECH Gallery College Gallery Foreign University Gallery

References

1. ^ http://seoulspace.co.kr/2011/01/13/koreans-launch-ddos-attacks-against-north-korea/
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=374357&portal=portal