The Broadcasting Media Communication Committee will strengthen its response to false and manipulated information and online illegal activities to create a safe broadcasting media communication environment. Additionally, to strengthen media sovereignty, it will promote the establishment of a rational public broadcasting system, enhance the responsibility of broadcasting reviews, and ensure media access rights. The committee announced on the 12th at the Sejong Convention Center in Sejong City that it reported its major achievements this year and future key tasks.
The committee will pursue multifaceted improvements such as legal and institutional reforms, strengthening public-private cooperation systems, and user education to minimize social harm caused by online false and manipulated information. It will promote a self-regulation recommendation agreement to strengthen the responsibilities of businesses, such as prompt reception and processing by platforms, and expand the operation of consultative bodies. It will support the legislation of amendments to the Information and Communication Network Act, including the introduction of a double compensation system, the obligation to establish and implement self-regulation policies by platforms, and the activation of fact-checking. It will also encourage voluntary fact-checking of false and manipulated information, foster fact-checkers, and support private fact-checking activities.
The committee will promote the enactment of a special law to enhance the responsibility of businesses for illegal and harmful information distributed online. This includes preventing overdependence on children and adolescents, sanctioning service abusers, mandating the management and blocking of illegal information, and disclosing information search and exposure standards. It will enhance the transparency of algorithm-based recommendation services and ensure user choice. It will institutionalize the obligation to specify in terms and conditions so that users can easily understand whether algorithms are recommended and major changes, and ensure broad user choice regarding whether and how algorithms are recommended when using services.
The committee will implement a transmission qualification certification system that allows only businesses with the capability to prevent illegal spam to enter the mass text transmission market. It will promote the enactment and revision of subordinate laws and notices under the Information and Communication Network Act to implement regulations on fines and confiscation for illegal spam, and strengthen entry regulations through the implementation of the transmission qualification certification system, aiming to eliminate illegal businesses and remove incentives for sending illegal spam by recovering unjust profits.