Lee Won-wook: "Joongpyeon, Do Not Interfere in the Presidential Election... All Should Fail Reauthorization"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Lee Won-wook, chairman of the National Assembly Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting Communications Committee and member of the Democratic Party of Korea, urged comprehensive programming channels (Jongpyeon) on the 19th to "stop interfering in the presidential election."

On the same day, Lee said on Facebook, "Even if Jongpyeon's origin is the Lee Myung-bak administration, diversity should be respected, so I have always supported Jongpyeon. I acknowledged a certain degree of bias as a characteristic of the media," adding, "But this level of bias goes beyond bias to blatant interference in the presidential election."

Lee wrote, "I think the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has been somewhat lenient regarding the bias shown by Jongpyeon in their broadcasts so far," and "If a strict standard were applied, all these Jongpyeon channels would fail re-approval."

Lee said, "The reason they were given reporting functions was because there was trust in those media companies," and added, "Let's keep it within reasonable limits."

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