Deletion of Late Park Won-soon's News... KBS1 Union Confirms Additional Biased Radio Broadcasts

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[Source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki Ha-young] The KBS Labor Union (hereinafter referred to as Union 1) has raised additional allegations of biased broadcasting on KBS radio.

Union 1 announced on the 7th that, after conducting a comprehensive investigation of the KBS1 Radio weekend 2 PM news content from May to September last year, they confirmed cases where announcer Kim (surname) arbitrarily deleted and did not broadcast articles placed on the cue sheet by the editing reporter.

Union 1 criticized announcer Kim for deleting reports on the prosecution’s investigation updates regarding the Lime scandal, which caused trillions of won in damages due to financial regulatory easing, and North Korea’s critical statement accusing the government of neglecting the leaflet distribution by North Korean defector groups.

Additionally, they claimed that updates on the prosecution’s investigation into allegations of the Blue House’s interference in the Ulsan mayoral election involving Song Cheol-ho, the death of the director of the Mapo victim shelter affiliated with the Justice Memory Solidarity (JMS) chaired by Democratic Party lawmaker Yoon Mi-hyang, the fact that 500,000 people agreed to a national petition opposing the late Mayor Park Won-soon’s title of 'Seoul Special Mayor,' and difficulties in police investigations such as the rejection of a phone communication inquiry warrant in Mayor Park’s name were all deleted.

Furthermore, they cited two cases where content not present in the original articles was arbitrarily added and broadcast. One such case involved announcer Kim adding three sentences to an article related to Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun’s appearance on the program 'Sunday Diagnosis Live.'

Union 1 has continuously alleged that announcer Kim reduced or deleted news unfavorable to the government and ruling party while exaggerating favorable content.

Previously, on the 27th of last month, announcer Kim was reported for violating the Broadcasting Act, and on the 1st of this month, the first results of the investigation into the radio program’s content were announced. Union 1 explained that this announcement is the second result, and combined with the first, it effectively represents a comprehensive investigation.

In response, KBS stated that they will conduct an audit of announcer Kim and related personnel such as the radio news editing reporter. Announcer Kim’s duties are currently suspended.

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