Editing DC Inside (section)

== Incidents and controversy ==

=== Formation of Megalia ===
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The MERS gallery (short for [[Middle East respiratory syndrome]] outbreak) was created in the spring of 2015, and became a place for bashing two women who were falsely accused of contracting MERS, refusing quarantine and going shopping in [[Hong Kong]]. They were bashed as "kimchi women" ([[wikt:김치녀|김치녀]]; ''gimchi-nyeo''), a misogynist term for women who only have shopping on their minds.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://qz.com/801067/an-epic-battle-between-feminism-and-deep-seated-misogyny-is-under-way-in-south-korea/ |title=An epic battle between feminism and deep-seated misogyny is under way in South Korea |last=Steger |first=Isabella |work=Quartz |access-date=2017-05-24 |language=en-US}}</ref>

As this continued, an influx of [[Feminism|feminists]] started using reactionary terms, coining ''gimchi-nam'' ({{Korean|hangul=김치남|labels=no|lit=kimchi man}}), a reclaimed term which mocks Korean men. DC Inside intervened by instituting a policy which forbade the usage of ''gimchi-nam''. A portion of its users regarded the measure as [[discriminatory]],{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|One news source reports, "Compared to DC Inside's track record thus far of never handing out any sanctions whatsoever against seriously misogynic statements, this [measure] was hard to comprehend".<ref name=ohmynewsmegalia/>}} which eventually led to the creation of a feminist website, [[Megalia]].<ref name="10mag">{{cite news |url=https://www.10mag.com/megalia-south-koreas-radical-feminism-community/ |last=Lee |first=Yeji |title=Megalia: South Korea's Radical Feminism Community |journal=[[10 Magazine (South Korean magazine)|10 Magazine]] |date=2016-09-01 |access-date=2017-01-27}}</ref><ref name="ohmynewsmegalia">{{cite news|author=Kim Jae-hui (김재희) |script-title=ko:일베도 서럽게 만든, '메갈리아의 딸들' |trans-title=Even Ilbe was made to feel contrition by the 'Megalia sisterhood' |journal=[[OhmyNews]] |date=2015-06-23 |url=http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0002120985 |access-date=2017-01-27 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150922084407/http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0002120985|archive-date=2015-09-22 |url-status=dead |language=ko}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=See reliable sources list on [[WP:KO/RS]]|date=April 2025}}

=== Lee Kun-hee death rumors ===
On 4 July 2016, police raided DC Inside and Ilbe Storage, which spread rumors of [[Samsung Group]] Chairman [[Lee Kun-hee]]'s death in an apparent bid to boost stock prices.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.greenpostkorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=63996 |script-title=ko:경찰, 삼성 이건희 회장 사망설 게시된 '일베' '디씨인사이드' 압수수색…루머 게시글 확인 |date=2016-07-14 |website=그린포스트코리아 |language=ko |access-date=2020-04-26}}</ref>