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Internet Election News Deliberation Commission

  • Internet Media and Responsibility for Fair Election News
    • Internet Media and Increasing Opportunity to Participate in Politics

      The Internet has caused a tremendous change in the media environment in various aspects of production, delivery, and consumption of news. In particular, the Internet media is becoming an effective medium for the public to participate in politics while several elections are held and it has a great influence on all fields.

    • Rising Influence of Internet Media on Politics and its Disadvantages

      The Internet media offers a variety of political information to voters, activates a debate culture, draws people''s attention to election and encourages voters to participate in politics. It is also used as a space for exchanging opinions on civil society. In spite of advantages of the Internet media, it also causes various problems. For example, unfair election news coverage may do damage to political parties and candidates or distort voters'' perspectives of the information delivered.

    • Fair Election News Coverage by Internet Media

      With the influence of the Internet media on society and politics being greater, people have started feeling keenly the necessity of impartial internet election news. Thus, through the revision of the Public Official Election Act on Mar. 12, 2004, the Internet Election News Deliberation Commission was established to relieve the damages caused by distorted election news coverage on political parties and candidates and encourage fair election news coverage by the Internet media.

    • Internet Election News Deliberation Commission

      According to the Article 8-5 Paragraph (2) of the Public official Election Act, the Internet Election News Deliberation Commission is composed of less than 11 commissioners endorsed by the political parties that hold a negotiation body in the National Assembly, the Korea Communications Standards Commission, the Press Arbitration Commission, the National Election Commission, academic and legal circles, the Internet media associations and civic groups.

    • Secretariat

      According to the Article 8-5 Paragraph (8) of the Public official Election Act, the Internet Election News Deliberation Commission operates a qualified deliberation team, a deliberation management team and deliberation support team to handle deliberation duties.