• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

Present study investigated the crash phenomenon between freedom of press and pseudo press. For that researcher gathered online witch hunt cases from 2012 to 2017 and interpret with the logical basis of argument which needs to control pseudo press activity. On the other hand, present research arranged former studies about freedom of press and right of reputation and privacy as a counterpart that can be ethical debate. Futhermore, court case about right of small independent media where has less than 5 people also gathered. By Comparison of each ethical and legal basis, this study provide the insight which can inspire to think about real right of citizen and press.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.62
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• pp.140-158
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the media policy of the Third Republic and its influence on local newspapers in Korea. Just after the May 16th coup Military Government enforced the press merger and abolition and in 1962 announced the direction of the media policy and its implementation standards. These standards had a serious impact on local newspapers. It had resulted in weakening the reporting activities and aggravating the financial difficulties of the local newspapers. The media policy in 1971, which was in the form of self-purification resolutions of media corporations limited the dissemination and weakened the activities of local newspapers. By these measures the centralizing to Seoul of the media had to be deepened. The industrialization policy promoted by the Third Republic exacerbated this centralizing process.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.62
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• pp.244-263
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• 2013

There have been enormous social impacts on many areas, including science journalism, since the so-called "Hwang Woo Suk" incident. Although wide demand for better science journalism has been aroused since then, but it is hard to find an evidence to prove we have reached the point. This study examines how major Korean newspapers report Unidentified Flying Objects in order to test if the level of science journalism had been elevated. As results, still it is a long road ahead to achieve the goals because most reports were taken from the international news agents or from the witnesses rather than scientific researches and analyses; terminologies used in the stories were ambiguous; follow-up stories were rare, the sources were usually pseudo-scientific, wanton errors in basic facts and coherence, and other problems were found. It could be suggested that the dependency on supplied news to be reduced, journalists who understand both science and journalism are required, inner regulations on science reporting to be established, correct quotations and fact-checks to be accomplished, fairness to be maintained within the boundary of normal science.