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Korea parliament science, ICT committee completes second-half lineup with AI budget, misinformation on agenda

South Korea\'s National Assembly Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee begins second-half activities after ruling and opposition parties completed member assignments. The panel is expected to focus on securing budgets and setting investment priorities for government AI projects, ensuring power supply for AI data centres and chip plants, and overhauling broadcasting and telecom rules. It is also set to debate regulation of false and manipulated information, follow-up work on the AI basic law and media fund financing.

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Government, home shopping firms and SMEs pledge shared growth, push 10 tasks

The government, home shopping industry and small and medium-sized enterprises will strengthen cooperation to develop the home shopping sector and promote shared growth. The Broadcasting Media Communications Commission held a joint declaration event in Seoul on July 20 with 12 home shopping companies and partner SMEs. The participants agreed on regulatory reform and policy support, fair trading practices, user rights protection and stronger product and service competitiveness, and set out 10 joint action tasks.

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Bamitoongwi appoints, nominates 9 Democratic Party picks as public broadcaster directors

The Broadcasting Media Communications Commission approved the nomination and appointment of nine public broadcaster directors recommended by the Democratic Party. It decided to nominate four directors for KBS and appoint two directors to the Foundation for Broadcast Culture and three directors to EBS. The commission postponed a decision on one Foundation for Broadcast Culture nominee pending completion of fact-checking. It urged other nominating bodies to submit remaining recommendations promptly.