It is a seed engine-based Korean wiki that was founded on April 17, 2015. (KST). It is run by umanle S.R.L., which has its headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay’s capital.

Namu Wiki was founded by namu, PPPP, and kasio. These users originally emerged as fluid nicks on the Rigveda wiki bulletin board, but the producers of Namu Wiki are not operating for the benefit of a certain organization or group, and the creators of Namu Wiki reject the commercialization of information and peaceful knowledge. The idea is to encourage people to share. After Namu Wiki was founded, ztirf and syndrome joined, and the first management team was created. The executives’ roles at the time, according to Syndrome’s statement on May 8, 2015, were as follows. namu – Backend developer PPPP – Frontend developer kasio – Renderer developer syndrome – Problem tracker and other issue management NamuWiki’s creators do not reveal their true identity. since you are aware of the situation Once the creators’ names are disclosed, there’s a good chance that anybody who is unhappy with Namu Wiki will register a complaint from all sides, and the Rigveda Wiki may use a legal company to file a broad complaint while keeping their anonymity. His major role, according to the founder namu’s response to the Namu Wiki Q&A bulletin board, is information security. The creators of NamuWiki, JusoWiki lost their unique power once NamuWiki was bought by umanle S.R.L., a Paraguayan firm, via a transfer of ownership.

Because NamuWiki’s server is in Slovakia, NamuWiki was taken over by the Paraguayan limited liability firm umanle S.R.L., and although NamuWiki follows Paraguayan laws, it is also bound by Korean laws. As a result, Namu Wiki is not bound by Korean laws. As a result, tales that violate the National Security Act or explicit material that is allowed in Paraguay may be uploaded. Defamation is also decided on the broad Paraguayan defamation law rather than the Korean defamation law. Furthermore, it is a violation of Paraguay’s Personal Information Protection Act if member information is provided on to the Korean police on the Korean police’s orders. There is no risk if you respect Paraguayan law while drafting paperwork since paraguayan police only collaborate with Korean police for breaches of Paraguayan law. Even if the local police in Paraguay seek member information, only a court order is required to provide member information. Instead, if you provide user information to the Korean police without going through this procedure, you might face penalties under Paraguay’s Personal Information Protection Act. However, if a Korean resident publishes a paper as a non-member, disclosing the complete IP, his identity would be known, and he may face legal action. Since August 2016, however, it has been subjected to temporary restrictions. The difficulty is that, regardless of the content’s importance, anybody may remove the whole document containing his or her description if he or she does not want to read criticism of himself. Furthermore, since management does not analyze the interim measure’s appropriateness and deletes it automatically, press freedom may be harmed. Instead, anytime a right holder requests that a document be removed, Namu Wiki publishes the material in the Namu Wiki: Transparency Report, and contributors may request that the document be restored via a request for objection. According to the rule of the shorter term, establishing a headquarters in Paraguay is troublesome.
When NamuWiki users with Korean nationality go overseas, they must be aware that local laws that follow the territoriality principle and Korean laws that follow the territoriality principle might be implemented simultaneously. You may face penalties under Korean law if you enter the nation. The original author of the post or the person who copied and spread the material has the legal duty, but the internet service provider is also liable for maintaining the post. For example, an internet service provider is liable for assisting if it directly verifies or just partially recognizes a copyright infringement post made by an online service user. Consult the Seoul Central District Court’s precedents. Because Namu Wiki’s running corporation is based in Paraguay, some individuals may incorrectly conclude that Namu Wiki is an extraterritorial jurisdiction where Korean law does not apply. That is to say, when Korean editors change documents on Namu Wiki, Korean law does not apply. Because Korean law applies both territorialism and territorialism, even though the Namu Wiki server and business are located outside of Korea, any conduct on Namu Wiki that contravene Korean law are punishable if your name is exposed. It is feasible to locate and track the user’s legal address with merely an IP if umanle S.R.L. offers personal information such as IP to the complaint or the editor himself is talking about his/her own past, whether it is a home Internet IP or a mobile phone IP. Also, just because Namu Wiki isn’t governed by Korean law doesn’t imply that conduct like making excessively defamatory claims on the site are automatically tolerated. So, if you dare to submit a harmful post while not logged in, you may face legal consequences under Korean law. The Namu Wiki site, not the people that use Namu Wiki in Korea, is exempt from Korean legislation. If Namu Wiki is converted into a non-profit organization, such as a social cooperative, non-profit association, or foundation, it will be able to avoid Korean legislation to some degree if it is founded outside of Korea. On the other side, there is the problem that participation by wiki users in Korea is difficult.
The Berne Convention protects copyright, and it is always unlawful to violate copyright everywhere in the world, with the exception of a few nations. There is no way out, not even in China or North Korea. The Paraguayan court may submit information on the complaint to the Korean police/office prosecutor’s in circumstances where it is prohibited under Paraguayan law, such as in violation of copyright law. Because the operational business is based in Paraguay, a case for infringement of copyright and database rights, as well as a breach of the Act on the Prevention of Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets, will be brought in the Paraguay Court where the firm is based. Open source precedents are relevant in this instance. It is considered to be more beneficial to Namu Wiki since the trial will take place in Paraguay, which is friendlier to the GPL and CCL than Korea, rather than Korea, which lacks a judicial framework. Furthermore, since Korean copyright holders are foreign businesses under Paraguayan law, they cannot apply penalties on their own without the Paraguayan government’s authorization. It is indirectly sanctioned via effective temporary measures since it is a diplomatic problem that is interpreted as involvement in domestic matters.