Councilor Lee Young-ran of Suncheon City Council Urges Withdrawal of KBS Suncheon Broadcasting Station Closure

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Lee Young-ran, a member of the Suncheon City Council (Chairman Seo Jeong-jin), strongly urged the withdrawal of the plan to close the KBS Suncheon Broadcasting Station at the 3rd plenary session of the 241st extraordinary meeting on the 15th.

Last July, when the public broadcaster KBS announced the ‘KBS Emergency Management Plan 2019’ citing business loss compensation and profit and loss improvement as reasons, the KBS Suncheon Broadcasting Station faced the threat of closure. In response, the Suncheon City Council issued a statement urging the withdrawal of the closure of the KBS Suncheon Broadcasting Station.

Nevertheless, on May 6th, KBS submitted the ‘Application for Permission to Change Regional Broadcasting Stations and Approval for Change of Business Plan’ to the Korea Communications Commission, reportedly taking steps toward closing regional broadcasting stations.

In this situation, Councilor Lee Young-ran announced that she would propose the ‘Resolution Urging the Withdrawal of the Closure of KBS Suncheon Broadcasting Station, which Violates the Sovereignty of Local Viewers’ to withdraw the restructuring plan of KBS regional broadcasting stations and to realize the value of public broadcasting and expand the local functions of TV in the era of local decentralization.

Through the resolution, Councilor Lee urged ▲ KBS, the public broadcaster, to withdraw the plan to close regional broadcasting stations that go against local decentralization and violate the sovereignty of local viewers ▲ actively promote measures to expand the TV local functions of KBS regional broadcasting stations to achieve the public interest goals of public broadcasting ▲ and urged the Korea Communications Commission to thoroughly review the application for change permission to ensure that KBS’s public responsibilities stipulated by the Broadcasting Act are upheld.

Meanwhile, the resolution passed at the plenary session on the same day is scheduled to be sent to the Blue House, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the National Assembly, representatives of each political party, the Chairperson of the Science, Technology, Information and Communications Committee, the Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission, the KBS Board of Directors, the KBS President, and the Director of KBS Suncheon Broadcasting Station.

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