Yoon Appoints Moon Jae-wan and Lee Jung-ok as Successors to Dismissed Defense Security Committee Members

Monitoring Committee Party Composition 6 to 1

On the 22nd, President Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Moon Jae-wan, a full-time professor at the Graduate School of Law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and Lee Jung-ok, former head of the KBS Global Strategy Center, as new members of the Korea Communications Standards Commission. They are successors to former commission members Ok Si-chan and Kim Yoo-jin, who were recently dismissed amid controversies over 'profanity scandals' and 'breach of confidentiality.'

The nine members of the Communications Standards Commission are recommended in groups of three by the President, the Speaker of the National Assembly, and the relevant standing committee, the Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Communications Committee. Typically, the Speaker's quota is recommended by the Speaker and the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties, one each.

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Commissioner Moon graduated from Seoul National University Law School and has served as a reporter for Maeil Business Newspaper, a professor in the Department of Law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, a full-time professor at the Graduate School of Law at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, a director of the Korea Broadcasting Culture Promotion Foundation, a constitutional research commissioner at the Constitutional Court, president of the Korean Association of Media Law, and president of the International Broadcasting Exchange Foundation.

New commissioner Lee graduated from Yonsei University’s Department of French Language and Literature and has held positions such as KBS Paris correspondent, head of the KBS Global Strategy Center, auditor of the Kwanhun Club, secretary-general of the Korea Broadcasting Association, and mediator of the Advertising Dispute Mediation Committee of the Korea Advertising Self-Regulation Organization.

With the appointment of the two commissioners, the Communications Standards Commission now has a 6-to-1 ratio between ruling and opposition members. The two vacant seats are reportedly under discussion in the National Assembly.