A major French daily says South Korea has become a 'lab for digital democracy.'

Thursday's edition of Le Monde said South Korea's latest demographics show that two-thirds of the Korean population is under the age of 40, and that with the rapid spread of Internet service, the nation had the largest per capita number of Internet users in the world.

The daily went on to say that although Korea has a relatively short history of democracy, its people have become global leaders in expressing their ideas via ultramodern means like online newspapers and cellular phones.

The paper cited as an example of the so-called "digital democracy" a civic online movement during the 2000 parliamentary poll in which Korean activists drew up and made public a list of corrupt parliamentary candidates.