Information and communication technologies that have been rapidly developing have recently become the main route for the distribution of hate speech. Discriminatory or prejudicial statements or fake news are spread widely through social networking services to cause confusion and anxiety. Some newspapers, broadcasts, or YouTube videos exaggerate and reproduce such fake news. In other cases, politicians or economic or social organizations may use this information to achieve their own purposes. There are many examples of the current status of hate speech in Korean society. The murder of a woman by a man in his thirties in a public restroom of a karaoke bar near Gangnam Station in 2016 showed how misogyny may lead to crime, spurring a social debate about misogyny. In 2018, approximately 550 asylum seekers from Yemen applied for refugee status at Jeju Island. Unconditional hate was targeted at these Muslim refugees, encouraging racial discrimination and xenophobia. This hate speech was then disseminated and intensified by the media’s provocative reports, speculative articles, and fake news. In September of the same year, those who were against the first Incheon Queer Culture Festival expressed hate towards the participants of the event, threatened them, and caused violence. This showed that hate can directly cause harm to public wellbeing. 7