Koh Dae-young, former president of KBS, and Kim Jang-gyeom, former president of MBC/Chosun Ilbo DB
On the 8th, former KBS president Go-Young Ko and former MBC president Kim Jang-gyeom, who were dismissed during the Moon Jae-in administration, filed a complaint with the prosecution on charges of abuse of power against those involved in the “document controlling broadcasting” that appeared at the Democratic Party workshop event in August 2017. The two claimed, “As planned in the document of the Democratic Party’s control of broadcasting, they suffered the damage of being unfairly dismissed from KBS and MBC, respectively.”
The power of the people also urged the prosecution on this day to thoroughly investigate those involved in the broadcasting control documents. While the Democratic Party of Korea criticizes Lee Dong-gwan, a candidate for the chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, as a “technician to control the media,” the passport came out with an attempt to dominate the media during the Moon Jae-in administration.
In a statement on the same day, the People’s Power Media Policy Coordination Special Committee said, “The so-called ‘Democratic Party Broadcasting Domination Document’ distributed at the Democratic Party lawmaker’s workshop on August 25, 2017 has a roadmap of 9 steps, ‘a campaign to resign the president centered on members of the broadcasting company’ and ‘citizens It contains a plan to carry out a movement to resign social groups and ‘exclude directors from the opposition party’,” he said. “Most of the contents of the document have actually been implemented.”
The document that took control of broadcasting contained scenarios related to the resignation of the then opposition president and board members within KBS and MBC. In January 2018, after this document appeared, Ko Dae-young, then president, was dismissed. The former president filed a lawsuit to cancel the dismissal, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the former president last June, saying, “The dismissal is illegal.” The People’s Power Media Special Committee said, “The court has already recognized the reality and illegality of the Moon Jae-in administration’s broadcast control documents.”
Former MBC president Kim Jang-gyeom, who was appointed in February 2017, was dismissed in November 2017, two months earlier than Koh. Former CEO Kim was subsequently handed over to trial on charges of giving disadvantages to union members who went on strike in 2012, and was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 2 years of probation in the second trial in August 2020. The case went up to the Supreme Court, but it has not been decided for three years. In this regard, People’s Power CEO Kim Ki-hyun argued last month that “former president Kim Jang-gyeom made an outrageous false accusation.”
2023-08-08 07:50:17
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