South Korean Video Game Raises Awareness of Government Surveillance

Somi is an unlikely South Korean political activist who has developed a video game to increase public awareness of growing government surveillance. At the Busan Indie Connect (BIC), he wears a pair of large, black sunglasses with reflective lenses. Somi, a pseudonym, is well known among his peers at the conference for independent game makers in Busan, South Korea. The glasses, however, are a small attempt to conceal his identity as a game developer from coworkers at his day job. His...

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