DC Inside

New minor galleries are created upon user request. Request message should explain the gallery topic which should not be inappropriate, and should not overlap with existing galleries. Highly active minor galleries can be promoted into main galleries by administrators. In this case, administrators take the rights to manage the galleries.

Galleries are controlled by site administrators, while minor galleries are controlled by dedicated user accounts, called by the name manager, or more frequently be the slang 주딱 ('Ju-ttak', orange-badge), by the fact that their usernames come with an orange badge. Manager roles are first assigned to ones requested creation of that gallery, and the role can be handed over to other users. Sub-managers can be appointed by managers and get a blue badge, leading them to be called 파딱('Pa-ttak', blue-badge).

Site administrators choose posts along the whole website to re-upload on HIT gallery. There are no specific standards of choosing, but it generally contains fun, useful posts. The user who created the original post can request administrators to delete it on HIT gallery.

One of the site's unique traits is its anonymity, which led to its atmosphere different from other Korean major forums.

Since 2007, you can choose to register, log-in and use your own account. Before that, it was a fully anonymous forum.

The anonymity led users to communicate casually, expressively, and with insults and abuses.[5]

It's a main source of popular jokes, buzzwords, and neologisms in Korea. Parodies, satires and slangs made of controversial social/political phenomenon/public figures is shared, and are quickly spread to other online communities and eventually to news, advertisements and everyday life. Some popular slangs are as follows:

• 잉여 ('Ying-Yar', surplus), means a person who is incompetent and useless in society, and was used widely pre-2010.[6]
• 헬조선 (hell Joseon), which speaks for itself, was generated in History Gallery, which was notorious for anti-Koreanism as of 2015.[7] The word roughly means living in Korea is harsh and hopeless.[8]

The criticism to Hwang Woo-Suk was first led by Science Gallery along with BRIC forum in 2005.[9] Stock gallery found video of evidences for the trial of Kim Ki-Choon, central member of 2016 South Korean political scandal. The video was referenced in the parliamentary audit by congresswoman Park Young-sun.[10]

Initially a voice for left-wing politics, mainstream users turned to right-wing conservative views in early as 2013.[11][12]

Many galleries are criticized of misogyny,[13] and the baseball gallery is pointed out for its secondary offense toward high school teachers reporting sexual assaults.[14]

MERS gallery (for Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak) was created in spring of 2015, and became a place for bashing two women who was falsely accused for contracting MERS, refusing quarantine and went shopping to Hong Kong. They were bashed as "kimchi woman" (김치녀; gimchi-nyeo), a misogynist term for women who only have shopping on their minds.[15]

As this continued, an influx of Feminists started using reactionary terms, coining "kimchi man" (김치남; gimchi-nam) a reclaimed term which mocks Korean men. DC Inside intervened by instituting a policy, which forbade usage of "kimchi man". A portion of its users regarded the measure as discriminatory,[lower-alpha 1] which eventually led to creation of a Feminist website, Megalia.[17][16]

On July 4, 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.[18]