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Telecommunications & Media
Civic groups urge caution on 150-day holdback, seek consumer participation
Consumer and civic groups urged the government to include consumers in a voluntary agreement on a film release holdback now under 추진 and to discuss movie ticket prices and settlement transparency. The groups said a uniform holdback period could limit consumer choice and called for broader talks on existing distribution issues, including telecom discounts and settlement details. They said they do not oppose the holdback system itself.
Telecommunications & Media
Broadcast Media Telecommunications Commission selects 15 groups to nominate public broadcaster directors
South Korea\'s Broadcast Media Telecommunications Commission said on Thursday it has made its final selection of groups that will nominate directors for public broadcasters. It approved 15 groups, five each for KBS, the Munhwa Broadcasting Foundation and EBS. The commission said it will ask the selected groups to recommend director candidates by June 26. It plans to proceed with requesting appointments for KBS directors and appointing directors for the foundation and EBS after nominations are completed.
Games & Commerce
Coupang says no payment info leak or secondary damage confirmed, rebuffs civil groups\' complaint
Coupang on Feb. 23 denied claims by People\'s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy and Lawyers for a Democratic Society that secondary damage occurred after 7 suspected unauthorized payment cases were reported to a Coupang victim-reporting center. Coupang said a joint government-private investigation team and a security company found no leak of payment information or passwords, and no secondary harm has been confirmed to date. It said one case referred to police was a normal payment from a previously used device.
