Telecommunications & Media
Korea broadcast media watchdog forms seven statutory committees
South Korea\'s Broadcast Media Communications Commission on Tuesday approved appointments of new members to seven statutory committees related to broadcasting, including panels on viewer rights, universal access, dispute mediation and market competition assessment. It also received a report on a partial revision to a public notice to extend a temporary grace period for outsourcing programming ratios at regional MBC and regional private broadcasters, with the current grace period set to expire at the end of next month.