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As if there was a controversy over fairness… Academia: “Excessively biased composition”

It was confirmed that the Korea Communications Standards Commission sent official letters recommending election broadcast deliberation members to general programming channels such as TV Chosun and Channel A and some conservative groups ahead of the general election in April next year. Provided by the National Defense Commission

Prior to forming the Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee for the general election in April next year, the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCC) requested comprehensive programming channels such as TV Chosun and Channel A, as well as some conservative groups and academic societies with pro-government tendencies, to recommend deliberation committee members. It was confirmed that it was done. Since the inauguration of Chairman Ryu Hee-rim, there have been criticisms that the Broadcasting Review Committee imposes excessively severe punishment on critical media and applies lenient review standards to pro-government media, and it is expected that controversy over the fairness of the composition of the Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee for the general election will also arise. According to the data on the ‘Status of the composition of the Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee for the 22nd National Assembly Election’ received by the Hankyoreh on the 5th from the office of Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Jeong Pil-mo, a member of the National Assembly Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, the National Assembly Election Committee received election support from multiple recommending organizations (groups) until the 2nd. It was recommended by the Broadcasting Review Committee. The Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee is an organization that reviews the fairness of election broadcasts, and must be established and operated one day before preliminary candidate registration. In accordance with the Public Official Election Act (Article 8 2), deliberation members are recommended by the National Assembly negotiating group, the National Election Commission, the Korean Bar Association, broadcasting companies, broadcasting academia, journalist groups, and civic groups. (9 people in total) The National Deliberation Committee is responsible for the election. This is where recommendations from the Broadcasting Review Committee were requested. First, the National Defense Commission requested that the Korea Broadcasting Association and the Korea Cable TV Broadcasting Association, as well as the four general broadcasting companies including TV Chosun, JTBC, Channel A, and MBN, recommend the committee members responsible for recommending broadcasting companies. Until now, the broadcasting company recommendation deliberation committee has been alternately recommended by the representative Korea Broadcasting Association and the Cable TV Broadcasting Association rather than individual broadcasting companies, but this time, the four comprehensive broadcasting companies were included in the recommendation group. This is the result of giving broadcasting companies that may be subject to deliberation the authority to recommend deliberation committee members.

Institutions and organizations requested by the Korea Communications Standards Commission (Chairman Ryu Hee-rim) to recommend deliberation members for the Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee for the 22nd general election. Provided by Rep. Jeong Pil-mo’s office

It may also be pointed out that it is inappropriate to ask a new academic society, the Korean Media Policy Society, to recommend a deliberation committee member from the broadcasting academic community, which has generally been recommended by the Korean Journalism Society or the Korean Society of Journalism and Information Studies. In particular, the Korea Media Policy Association, launched in June 2019, is chaired by Park Cheon-il, a professor in the Department of Media Studies at Sookmyung Women’s University, who is serving as a civilian member of the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s Media and Content Industry Convergence Development Committee. Regarding this, an academic figure who requested anonymity pointed out, “Professor Park Cheon-il is in fact in charge of government affairs, and entrusting the recommendation of election broadcast deliberation committee members to a new academic society led by him is an overly biased structure.” The Korean Broadcasting Journalists Club, which cannot be considered representative of all broadcasting journalists, was asked to recommend members of journalistic organizations that have been recommended so far by the Korea Broadcasting Journalists Association or the Journalists Association of Korea, but the conservative media, which was established in June 2022 immediately after the inauguration of the Yoon administration, It is also controversial that the National Coalition for Fair Media, an organization, was requested to recommend a deliberation member while claiming to be a civic group. In the past three years since 2021, the National Defense Commission has established an election broadcast deliberation committee five times (including re-elections and by-elections), and among civic groups, the Korea YWCA (YWCA) Association and the Korean Women’s Association have recommended deliberation committee members. Kim Dong-chan, policy committee chairman of the Citizens’ Solidarity for Media Reform, said, “As this Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee will play a very important role in reviewing the fairness of election broadcasts for next year’s general election, the National Broadcasting Committee of Korea, the Korea Media Policy Society, etc. have submitted official letters recommending deliberation members. He pointed out, “It seems necessary to closely verify how representative the organizations that were sent are in each field.” Reporter Choi Seong-jin csj@hani.co.kr
2023-11-05 03:31:47
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After meeting with former emergency committee chairman Kim Jong-in
“People are disappointed with the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s mismanagement.”

Lee Jun-seok, former representative of the People Power Party, is visiting the office of former emergency committee chairman Kim Jong-in in Gwanghwamun, Seoul on the 1st to meet former emergency committee chairman Kim Jong-in. yunhap news

Lee Jun-seok, former representative of the People Power Party, criticized Innovation Committee Chairman In Yo-han, saying, “He came to me as a doctor and said he was wrong and would give me medicine.” The People Power Party’s crisis originated from President Yoon Seok-yeol, but the argument is that an incorrect diagnosis is being made. After meeting with Kim Jong-in, former chairman of the People Power Party Emergency Response Committee, at an office in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 1st, former representative Lee said to reporters, “It seems that (the people) are completely disappointed with the various misdeeds of the Yoon Seok-yeol government over the past 17 months, but Chairman In’s What was the diagnosis? He said, ‘I will feed the party bitter medicine,’” he said. “Now the people are dissatisfied with something else, not the party, so why are they feeding the party bitter medicine? “That accurately represents Yongsan’s logic,” he said. He continued, “As long as Chairman In speaks like that on behalf of Yongsan’s logic, members within the party will never agree. “There are many people in our party who are too cowardly to speak up, but I don’t think anyone would agree with a doctor who comes to us and says he will give us the wrong medicine,” he said. “I think it is important to give the medicine to the right person.” Former Representative Lee also said about the ‘youngnam senior lawmaker running for office in the metropolitan area’ floated by Chairman In, “Since public sentiment has been confirmed in Gangseo-gu, all you have to do is take a sample of 10 people and ask them. “When I asked, ‘Would you be impressed if former Representative Joo Ho-young and Representative Kim Ki-hyun ran for office in Gangseo-gu?’, the answer they gave would probably be close to the actual effect.” “If you think it’s important, go and ask the residents of Gangseo-gu, who showed terrible public sentiment this time, at least once,” he said. Meanwhile, former CEO Lee, who is also attracting attention for the ‘new party creation theory’, said about meeting former Chairman Kim on this day, “He always gives me a lot of advice, so he told me, ‘At this point, meet some people and mainly discuss with certain people.’ “I also shared and said, ‘I am consulting with certain people,’” he explained. He said, “Because former Chairman Kim interacts with a wide range of people, I also listen to people who say, ‘They are really great people,’ so I would like to meet them as a courtesy.” When asked about the creation of a party and the specific timing of the creation of the party, he said, “I did not discuss the exact schedule or such things.” “I didn’t,” he answered. Reporter Shin Min-jeong shin@hani.co.kr
2023-11-01 06:59:52
#Lee #Junseok #Yohan #medicine #wrong #party #Yongsans #logic

Kim Jin-wook, head of the Corruption Investigation Office, is returning to his office after the unveiling ceremony for the Corruption Investigation Office’s signboard reflecting the new logo at the Gwacheon Government Complex on August 26 last year. yunhap news

It was confirmed that Kim Seon-gyu, head of the 1st investigation department of the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (Corruption Investigation Office), received a suspended prison sentence at the appeals court for a case indicted before his appointment to the Corruption Investigation Office. He was found not guilty in the first trial, but if a sentence of imprisonment or higher is confirmed as requested, he may be dismissed from his position as a prosecutor at the Corruption Investigation Office. The second trial verdict is scheduled to come out in January next year. The Hankyoreh reported on the 31st that the prosecutors requested a one-year prison sentence and two years of probation at the appeal hearing on the case of Director Kim’s violation of the Personal Information Protection Act, which was held on the 26th at the Criminal Division 9 of the Seoul Central District Court (Presiding Judge Seong-bok Lee). done. The sentencing will take place on January 11th next year. Prosecutors from the Corruption Investigation Office are not dismissed, except in cases of impeachment or being sentenced to imprisonment or higher. Even if a suspended sentence is imposed, the sentence is equivalent to imprisonment or higher. Director Kim submitted a 213-page arrest warrant request written while investigating Mr. He is suspected of passing it on to Mr. Prosecutors indicted Director Kim without detention in April 2020. The issue is whether the data handed over by Director Kim contained personal information such as the names, resident registration numbers, stock holdings, and real estate ownership of 19 references in addition to the allegations against Mr. A. The first trial court declared him not guilty in September 2021 on the grounds that it was true that Director Kim handed over the arrest warrant request form to Mr. B, but that personal information, etc., may not have been included in it. The written opinion delivered by Director Kim to Mr. B was written on November 25, 2014, and the actual arrest warrant request was made three days later. This means that the delivered opinion did not contain personal information, and that the information may have been updated in later versions. He also judged that since Mr. B already knew Mr. A’s name, etc., it did not amount to a leak of ‘informing information to a person who does not know the information.’ Director Kim took office as the new head of the Corruption Investigation Office in October last year. This happened one year after the first trial acquittal. His position was recently changed to head of the 1st investigation department of the Corruption Investigation Office. Director Kim is classified as a ‘special agent’ who was dispatched to the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and investigated the Park Yeon-cha Gate. Reporter Jeon Gwang-jun light@hani.co.kr
2023-10-31 05:58:39
#단독 #Prosecutors #seek #prison #sentence #prosecutor #Corruption #Investigation #Office.. #confirmed #dismissal