It's not as dead as people on here say. My initial reaction was the same when I came back and started actively playing again...but I just looked a little harder and have found a vibrant core community that's very active on this server, and I actually enjoy it a lot, because I never deal with lag and real rivalries and friendships start to develop.
F2P will boost population and activity, and then I would like to see server transfers offered TO Jung Ma after things have stabilized a bit, but there are some of us who joined an RP-PVP server for a specific reason and we would like such a server to remain active.
I'm having a lot of fun on Jung Ma. WZ pops aren't too infrequent, and world pvp is constant, thought admittedly devoid of objective or MUCH organization, but still a lot of fun.
I understand people's angst, but I'm more attracted to the notion of trying to better our community than abandoning it.
That being said I'm playing my first lvl 50 and interacting with my guild a lot. I would probably have NO fun trying to re-roll an alt. I do think this problem needs to be addressed, I would just hate to see the server completely fall apart.