Naver·Kakao News Partnership Committee to Accept Partnership Applications Starting from the 31st

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] The Naver-Kakao News Partnership Evaluation Committee announced on the 21st that it will accept applications for this year's news partnerships from the 31st of this month until July 13.

The review period is a minimum of 4 weeks and a maximum of 10 weeks, which may vary depending on the number of applicants. The evaluation will begin in July after document review.

Applicants must have been licensed as newspaper publishers, periodical publishers, broadcasting operators, internet newspaper operators, news communication operators, or internet news service operators for at least one year after licensing or registration. News content partnerships can only be applied for by media registered with portal companies as 'news search partnerships' for more than six months.

At least nine committee members will evaluate each media outlet, and to ensure fairness, media will be randomly assigned. Evaluation results will be communicated to each media outlet and published on Naver and Kakao.

The committee has decided to conduct special evaluations for regional media to address the imbalance between Seoul and other regions. This applies to newspaper publishers, periodical publishers, broadcasting operators, internet newspaper operators, news communication operators, and internet news service operators whose distribution targets or broadcasting areas are outside Seoul. The media must be producing regional news for a specific area outside Seoul and be currently partnered at least at the news search partnership level.

The committee plans to select one media outlet with the highest score in each region and recommend their news content partnership entry to Naver and Kakao.

Applications for the special evaluation of regional media will be accepted from June 21 to July 4. Applications cannot be submitted simultaneously with the regular evaluation in May.

Ten media outlets with accumulated penalty points of six or more due to misconduct until March of this year will be re-evaluated. The re-evaluation cycle is three months, and contracts will be terminated if the score is below 60 points.

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