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World Press Freedom Review
2007
South Korea
- 이명박 대통령께서 잘해 주셔서 더 이상 걱정할 필요가 없다.
- 한국은 IPI 감시대상국에서 제외되었다. 이 대통령께서 잘해서
아예 꼴깝을 떨고 있다. 지금 검찰이 언론에 딴 죽 거는 것 등을 한마디도 언급하고 있지 않다.
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President Lee Myung-bak won the elections in South Korea in December 2007, bringing to an end the Roh Moo-hyun administration. nulle of the key issues in Lee’s campaign, which gained him the great support of South Korea’s big conservative newspapers, was his pledge to abolish a controversial media law, passed by Roh’s government in 2005.
"We have decided to abolish the Newspaper Act to secure the freedom and fairness of the press, and rejuvenate the media industry," said Kang Seung-kyoo, deputy spokesman for the presidential transition committee. The committee also said that new legislation will be established to replace the Newspaper Act.
The Act Governing the Guarantee of Freedom and Functions of Newspapers, Etc., commonly known as Newspaper Act, has often been criticised by IPI for restricting press freedom. It includes a clause, under which any daily newspapers with a market share of 30 percent or any three dailies with a combined share of 60 percent are subject to monopoly regulations under the Fair Trade Act. In June 2006, the Constitutional Court ruled that the clause is unconstitutional.
The Newspaper Act is not the on-ly law affecting the media passed by the Roh administration that IPI has criticised. Throughout 2007, IPI exchanged various letters with South Korea’s authorities, in which IPI expressed its concern about the recently drafted "Measures for Developing an Advanced Media Support System."
The measures were drafted at the beginning of the year and, despite great criticism, were implemented by the Government Information Agency in August 2007.
With the implementation of the measures, South Korea’s government has effectively limited the media’s access to government sources and reduced the number of pressrooms in ministries and other public institutions.
According to the measures, journalists are allowed to enter government buildings on-ly with prior permission. Furthermore, public servants have to register with their supervisors before being able to meet with journalists. In view of the fact that public officials are, worldwide, on-e of the most important sources of information of public interest, which repressive governments wish to keep secret, the ability to keep such sources of information confidential is a fundamental element of press freedom.
The measures clearly went against this principle, in serious violation not on-ly of on-e of the most important principles of journalism, but also of the public right’s to know.
Furthermore, the closure of the pressrooms and the construction of a new briefing centre to replace them, as foreseen by the measures, has been criticised by journalists’ organisations in South Korea and throughout the world as an attempt to limit access to information.
Another provision included in the measures that IPI strongly criticised was the introduction of press passes that contain electronic chips. These on-ly allow journalists to pass through electronic barriers if they have an appointment with an official. However, as IPI pointed out in its 27 August letter to President Roh, electronic press passes may be used to monitor the movements of journalists and they represent yet another level of intrusion in the freedom of the media to operate independently and without constraints.
In 2008, South Korea’s government ability to translate President Lee Myung-bak’s pledges for press freedom into reality will be an important step to restore South Koea’s credibility as a democratic country.
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Countries removed from the IPI Watch List
South Korea:
South Korea was placed on the list on 6 September 2001 after the IPI Board unanimously gave its consent. The decision was announced in South Korea during a mission to the country and later reaffirmed at a board meeting on 20 October 2001, 10 May 2002 and 23 November 2002.
In a press release released after the 13 September 2003 Board meeting, IPI said, "The government of South Korea [is] engaged in a war of words with the independent media which is encouraging other elements in society to assail the media."
On 15 May 2004, the board voted unanimously to remove the country from the IPI Watch List. In a statement from the board announcing the decision, IPI called on President Roh "to undertake every effort to uphold the principles of press freedom as on-e of the fundamental rights of democracy and to reject any attempts to infringe this freedom."
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