"North Korean Internet" is practically an oxymoron.
South Korean internet phenomenon Psy took the coveted Best Video prize.
But the stamps have unleashed a flood of nationalist venom in South Korean Internet chat rooms.
Korean Internet users, meanwhile, are notorious for their Web site mob attacks, which are often virulently nationalistic, ideological and xenophobic.
What it sent was an apparently complete index of the.kp domain, an address book for the North Korean Internet.
L.D.H., formerly Livedoor Holdings, agreed this month to sell the portal to the South Korean Internet company NHN for $68 million.
In some cases, Chinese and South Korean Internet gangs were able to get away with paying as little as $3,000.
But that was before it was possible to stumble on Naver, the Korean Internet portal, and learn what not-understanding really is.
Derek Manky of Fortinet, another American security firm, who led a team of experts sifting through the virtual debris of the virtual bombing alongside the Korean Internet Security Agency (KISA), says it is hard to identify the perpetrators.
In April 2002, the South Korean Internet portal Daum created an online stamp system to charge bulk e-mailers up to 0.8 cents per message to send e-mail to its subscribers.
Other encouraging signs include the limited opening of the country to foreign businesses and even the appearance of the first-ever North Korean internet café, with a mobile phone network supposedly soon to come.
