President Lee: "Rational Improvement of Various Regulations to Enhance Broadcasting Industry Competitiveness"

President Lee Jae-myung stated, "To boost the competitiveness of the broadcasting industry, we will rationally improve various out-of-date regulations."

In a congratulatory message delivered on the 3rd through Senior Presidential Secretary for Public Relations Sung Ki-hong for the 63rd Broadcasting Day ceremony held in Yongsan, Seoul, President Lee remarked, "The broadcasting industry is facing the task of having to survive amidst fierce competition with global media."

This remark takes into account the rapidly changing broadcasting and media environment centered around OTT services.

President Lee also stated, "We will actively support the restoration of publicness in broadcasting as well as its innovation and growth," adding, "In particular, we will institutionally back the autonomy and independence of broadcasting."

President Lee especially emphasized, "We will also realize a 'basic media society' that guarantees the participation rights, access rights, and choices of all citizens."

National Assembly Speaker Cho Jeong-shik said in a video congratulatory message, "The power of high culture is no longer an ideal, but a reality," adding, "We will spare no necessary support so that South Korean broadcasting can create content that leads the world."

Song Ki-heon, Chairperson of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting, and Communications Committee, stressed, "Seeing more than 80,000 people gather at a BTS concert venue in France and sing along to 'Arirang' in Korean, I could not help but feel a sense of pride," and added, "To properly fulfill our role as a cultural nation and develop, the advancement of broadcasting is above all an absolute and necessary and sufficient condition."

Kim Jong-chul, Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission, stated, "The history of South Korea's broadcasting has served as the foundation for South Korea, which is spoken of in terms of a cultural powerhouse and K-culture," adding, "I hope that broadcasting professionals, the government, and the National Assembly will turn crisis into opportunity based on our latent potential."

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