The Chun Doo-hwan Regime of tyranny of media ownership was restored with the Five-fold Punishment and Compensation Act for articles led by the key authorities of the Moon Jae-in regime.
The revision of the Media Act, which strengthened the control of the three media actors in reporting, editing, and coverage of press stocks, made the media ownership dominance absolute with the right to claim up to five times punitive damages for false or manipulated reports, and the right to block access to other articles as well as correction information.
On the 19th, the Culture and Culture Committee passed the 'Partial Amendment to the Media Arbitration and Damage Relief Act' with 9 votes in favor of a total of 16 members, and former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Do Jong-hwan, a key member of the pro-municipal authority, was chaired by the Hankyoreh reporter Kim Eui-gyeom, who became President Moon's spokesperson. The Uri Party lawmaker was passed with a quorum for the opposition party.
As reporters' articles were converted into material goods through the punitive damages law, smuggling between the media owners and chaebols was strengthened, and the 'power-press cohesion' was strengthened by strengthening the control of the media owners over the editorial and reporting rights, which are the core of press freedom. Guaranteed.
The Chun Doo-hwan system was a joint venture between the military security guard and the courtroom under the new military's 'K-Duke' operation, through the Ministry of Education, the consolidation of media companies under the control of the media owner and the mass layoffs of blacklisted reporters. The power-media ties with the media owners were strengthened by notifying the press every day of news guidelines such as 'allocation of the number of articles for editing and designation of non-reporting'.
An official from the Blue House told reporters on the 19th about the amendment to the Media Arbitration Act, saying, "Remedies for damage caused by false media reports are not sufficient, so legislative efforts are also needed to increase the effectiveness of damage relief."
At a policy coordination meeting on the 19th, Democratic Party floor leader Yun Ho-jung said, "The focus of the existing bill is shifted from arbitration to damage relief to clarify the protection of the people's rights and interests and to balance the interests of both the public and the media as much as possible." The 'adhesion' effect was not mentioned.
In an interview with Media Today on the 11th, Rep. Kim Eui-gyeom said, "The system of punitive damages already exists in the English-American law system. In the case of the United States, as well as case law, it is state law. There is no federal law, but as a state law, all states have punitive damages laws. In the United States, that law is a commercial law for us. The Commercial Act is a law that regulates the conduct of corporations. It applies equally to the media and general companies,” he said, adding that the “Subordinate Support Act to Check Local Businesses’ Countermeasures to Large International Media Companies” was applied to the entire Korean media system.
The 'small land support policy' introduced as a control measure by the central press under the Roh Moo-hyun system is also actually implemented in European countries by the local government, the 'progressive magazine subscription support for information balance for remote residents' system, and not the central government by the Roh Moo-hyun government's media war team. The local government's 'subsidiary policy' was altered by applying the central newspaper, and the central government support system for newspaper delivery began.
Rep. Kim told Media Today, "The revision of the Media Arbitration Act is the first step to improve the media environment and ecosystem, and the next step is to deal with the problem of portal sites."
Former Democratic Party leader Lee Nak-yeon, who was included in the Journalists Association's "Journalists who cooperated in the establishment of the Chun Doo-hwan system," appeared on the program hosted by Rep. Kim Eui-gyeom and said, "I'm sure that the power of Rep. It's late, but I'm glad," he said on the 20th, saying, "I would have welcomed it if I were a working journalist."
According to the opinion poll of the Journalists Association, “agree” rate was high among local broadcasting companies (51.6%), internet media companies (42.9%), and three terrestrial broadcasters (40.6%), and the responses “disagree” were found by the National Daily (58.8%), It was higher in general/media channels (57.1%) and telecommunication companies (55.7%). By department, editorial/commentary (66.7%), political department (64.0%), and general reporting (56.4%) answered 'disagree' with the exclusion of hands, while photography department (55.3%) and video department (48.2%) %) and the editorial/editing department (45.6%) revealed that there was a temperature difference between reporters penn and those who did not.>
The Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club Board of Directors said on the 20th, “Among foreign journalists working in Korea, some reporters are conscious of Korea’s defamation laws in addition to the Media Arbitration Act. In Korea, which is rare among major countries in the world, the crime of defamation can be punished not only by civil liability but also by criminal punishment. We express our deep concern over the enforcement of the amendment to the Media Arbitration Act,” he said in a statement.