Digital Democracy using Digital Platform in South Korea: Right to
Petition and Election Campaign
Abstract
This Article examines how it can be utilized and rationally utilized
using a digital platform. Korea is reviewing the National Assembly Act
and the Petition Act, and this research promotes political opinions and
legislative efficiency through digital platforms. Also, in the election
campaign, it is important the implementation of a new democracy process
using a digital platform and its effects. In particular, this researches
how are digital platforms, YouTube/political applications/metaverse,
used in the 2022 presidential election in Korea and what effect they
have had, how can a digital platform deal with the rational choice of
voters or the side effects using big data combined with AI. This paper
presents what role should digital platforms play in order to reflect
public will, expand voters’ political participation. Therefore, this
paper studied legal ways to provide political opinions and accept
policies through digital platform systems such as of ‘electronic
petitions’, Metaverse, AI.