Forty-Nine Members Appointed to the Content Dispute Mediation Committee

Disputes Triple in a Decade
Committee Expanded, Ex Officio Mediation Introduced

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on May 15 that it has appointed forty-nine members to the Content Dispute Mediation Committee. The term of office is three years, with the possibility of one reappointment.

The committee is an organization that mediates disputes between content providers and also between providers and users. The number of cases handled grew from 4,199 in 2016 to 14,648 last year, more than tripling over the past ten years.

In January of this year, the Ministry expanded the committee's size from a maximum of thirty to fifty members through an amendment to the "Content Industry Promotion Act." It also introduced new functions for ex officio mediation and collective dispute mediation.

Ex officio mediation grants the committee the authority to make decisions on its own when a party rejects a mediation proposal without reasonable grounds or when the expected amount in dispute is less than 10 million won. Collective dispute mediation is a system to process cases collectively when multiple individuals have suffered identical damages.

The committee is comprised of twenty-four members from the legal community, as well as experts from the academic fields of law and content, industry representatives, and members from user protection organizations.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Hwi-young stated, "We will support the committee, which has been strengthened in both scale and authority, so that it can fulfill its role as a fair and professional dispute resolution body."

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