Some of you have been complaining about not being able to access this site, and the problem seemed to only get worse from last week.
I was on the phone with KT yesterday, since the problem has gotten worse, specifically since last Friday. To their credit, they seemed concerned with the problem.
Korea.blogs.com (I ain't linking it!) seems to be the site that's the issue. The guy on the phone with me specifically checked the list of places banned by the MIC and blogs.com and SixApart (same company) is on it. And korea.blogs.com is specifically at issue (although it doesn't seem to be really active). Last Friday, they made another aggressive update to the block, apparently, which is why things have gotten worse. I myself was giving a lecture for a week at Kyeong Hee University in Suwon, and at the beginning of the week, I had accessed my site in class, while by Friday, it was no dice.
It was explained to me that since KT is also government-affiliated, they're more zealous about complying with MIC requests than private companies are. Which explains a lot of things. It is possible that KT was simply overzealous in blocking the offending site. It's blocked on the private sites as well, so they must have gotten the memo. Maybe it's KT's fault that they used a shotgun to swat a fly.
In any case, they're still checking, as there are possibly other issues exacerbating things. He's supposed to call me back.
But for now - yes, blogs.com and SixApart sites are on the ban list, but KT seems to be on the case about the problem of perhaps having blocked hundreds of thousands of sites because of a couple bad apples. I just think they didn't know.
We'll see how this pans out. And all this explains why my traffic has really started to take a dive lately. Especially from last week. Grrr. More news as I get it!