Discordia encourages people to use their real names in postings so we can generally know who we're talking to, but of course, nobody is forcing you. On the other hand, it doesn't matter, because Western-style network surveillance can and does trace you without your using your real name. Is the Korean govt. just less technically proficient? Or is the infrastructure less so? (E.g., is it more difficult for the government to get server logs from message board owners in Korea than it is in various Western countries?) Or is it more a difference in style - that Korea prefers direct coercion of dissenters, while Western govts. prefer to give people the feeling that you never know when and how big brother is watching... ?