The amendment bills to the 'Broadcasting 3 Acts' and the Act on the Establishment of the Korea Communications Commission, which change the governance structure of public broadcasting, passed the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee on the 25th.
On the same day, the Legislation and Judiciary Committee held a plenary session and announced that it had approved the amendments to the Broadcasting Act, the Korea Broadcasting Culture Promotion Foundation Act, the Korea Educational Broadcasting System Act, and the Act on the Establishment of the Korea Communications Commission.
The Broadcasting 3 Acts mainly involve increasing the number of directors of public broadcasters such as KBS, MBC, and EBS, and granting the right to recommend directors to journalism and broadcasting academic societies and related professional organizations, thereby changing the governance structure.
On the 25th, members of the People Power Party entered the meeting room at the 4th plenary session of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee held at the National Assembly. At this meeting, ruling party members attended for the first time in a month, and the Broadcasting Act, the Act on the Promotion of Broadcasting Culture, and the Korea Educational Broadcasting System Act amendments (collectively known as the Broadcasting 3 Acts), as well as the amendment to the Korea Communications Commission Act, were submitted for deliberation. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@
These bills had previously passed the plenary session in the 21st National Assembly but were discarded due to President Yoon Seok-yeol's veto (request for reconsideration). The People Power Party criticizes the Broadcasting 3 Acts as the 'Left-wing Broadcasting Permanent Control Law.'
The amendment to the Act on the Establishment of the Korea Communications Commission increases the quorum for the Commission's resolutions from the current two standing members to four. The relevant standing committee, the Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Communications Committee, processed the related bills on the 18th through a plenary session held solely by the opposition party, skipping the bill subcommittee review.
On the day, People Power Party members of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee who returned to the standing committee insisted on referring the bills to the second subcommittee for systematic and detailed review, but this was blocked by the committee chairperson Jeong Cheong-rae of the Democratic Party. The passed bills are scheduled to be submitted to the plenary session.
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