We have voluntarily disabled this functionality on kr.youtube.com because of the Korean real-name verification law.
It was interesting for me, it was not the first time I see this.
When I tried to book a seat at a movie theater, I was asked to give, not only by credit card number, but also my "Alien registration number"... (yes... in Korea I am an Alien!!!) ^_^
It is equivalent to a "social security number"
The point is, Korea government feels that people shouldn't be allowed to post anything and everything they want... I can understand this...
I read many stories about teens getting cyber-bullied, and who committed suicide because of this. This movement might prevent this.
You can keep having an alias, so people reading your comments/blogs/videos cannot know your real name, but IF the government needs to track you down, they can know your real name easily.
Some people are afraid that, since all it takes for someone to assume your personality is to find your social security number and then use it to impersonate you... it might do more harm than good.
However, this whole law was passed due the suicide of a very famous Korean actress. Her name is Jin-sil Choi (google it)
She committed suicide over some internet rumors.
This law is 1.5 years old now, I am not sure of it's successfulness yet, I am interested in getting people's reaction on this.
As far as the youtube.com is concerned, I found a "walk-around" for this issue... simply changing your location to "world-wide" solves this issue.
Apparently, google.com (owner of youtube.com) is not very happy about this law! Being anonymous is still one of the biggest attractiveness of the internet. Some people will not let it go without a fight!
