Media civic groups and pan-opposition groups “immediately re-enact the Broadcasting Act upon the opening of the 22nd session and conduct a government investigation into media suppression”

The joint action to block media control, comprised of media and civil society organizations, and pan-opposition groups such as the Democratic Party of Korea, the Fatherland Innovation Party, and the New Reform Party held a press conference in front of the main building of the National Assembly today (24th), and announced that the opening of the 22nd National Assembly was immediately canceled by the presidential veto. He announced that he would push for the three broadcasting laws again to ensure the political independence of broadcasting.

They said that the Yoon Seok-yeol administration’s crushing defeat in the general election was a predictable result, and said, “The regime is trying to degrade public broadcasting into a tool of power, the regime is degrading broadcasting deliberation into an election campaign tool and reviving state censorship, and the regime is trying to take control of the media under the guise of privatization. “What kind of communication could they have had with the people?” he criticized.

Opposition lawmakers, including Lee Jun-seok, leader of the New Reform Party, and Ko Min-jung, top member of the Democratic Party, who attended today’s event, said, “The 22nd National Assembly is a people’s call to restore freedom of speech and expression that was ruined by the Yoon Seok-yeol administration and to create a way to prevent illegal control of the media. “We take the results of the general election seriously with strict orders from the government,” he said.

To this end, media civic groups and opposition party members are pushing forward as top priorities the re-enactment of the three broadcasting laws for the political independence of public broadcasters, a state investigation into the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s suppression of the press, and the establishment of the National Assembly Media Reform Special Committee to guarantee press freedom. He said he would.