KBS main building in Yeouido, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. yunhap news
It was confirmed that during the Lunar New Year holidays, announcer Kim Mo, who is under suspicion of randomly deleting or changing the news in a direction favorable to the current government while conducting KBS radio news, conducted a special TV broadcast during the Lunar New Year holidays. In response to this, the KBS labor union criticized it, saying, “It showed a tendency toward governmental bias.”
In a statement on the 15th, the KBS Labor Union said, “Do you think it is appropriate for a person who has completely excused his political prejudice in the program to act as the face of KBS in a liberal arts program?” He criticized him, saying, “I gave up my promise with the viewers like flipping my palm.”
According to the KBS union, Announcer Kim was shown to have hosted a talk show program on KBS1 TV on the 13th. It was a special broadcast jointly conducted by male and female MCs during the Lunar New Year holidays. Announcer Kim appeared to have appeared on the 6th broadcast in addition to the broadcast on this day. In response, the KBS union argued, “It is a program that has been being carried out in the past, and even if it is pre-recorded, there is a problem that announcer Kim’s broadcasting activities continue.”
Previously, the KBS labor union conducted the KBS1 radio news at 2:00 pm on weekends after April last year through the results of the’Political Wave and Distortion Broadcasting Survey’ announced two times recently, and arbitrarily deleted or reduced about 40 news contents. It claimed to have been added or changed. It was to reduce the news that was unfavorable to the government and the ruling party and increase the favorable news. KBS also announced on the 1st that it conducted an audit and exclusion of work for Announcer Kim. It is reported that KBS is in a position that “there is no problem because only the radio service in question was excluded.”
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