Candidate Lee Jin-suk for KCC Chairperson: "Union Suppression? Malicious Framing"

Rebuttal to 2014 Business Plan Report
"For Management Stabilization and Ensuring Fairness"

Lee Jin-sook, Candidate for Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission / Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

Candidate for the Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission, Lee Jin-sook, has denied reports claiming that she submitted a plan to suppress labor unions while applying for the MBC president position in 2014, calling it a "malicious framing."

On the 15th, MBC reported news titled "Lee Jin-sook submitted a plan to suppress labor unions while applying for the public broadcaster president position." The report stated that candidate Lee included in her 2014 management plan demands for employees to withdraw from the union and advocated for reducing union staff and cutting support, thereby suppressing union activities.

In response, candidate Lee argued, "The matters related to labor-management relations presented in the management plan were intended to stabilize MBC's management and secure fairness and public interest in broadcasting through principled reestablishment of labor-management relations, including the recruitment of labor experts."

She asserted, "Defining this as union suppression is nothing but a malicious framing."

She added, "I submitted a management plan containing the necessary strategies for MBC to develop into the best content media company," further stating, "Various measures were proposed, including enhancing content competitiveness, securing the publicness, fairness, and independence of broadcasting, strengthening overseas marketing, and expanding business to increase revenue."