Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission "Whether or not to protect the reporter of the alleged civil petitioner, separate judgment"

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission said it can separately determine whether an employee of the Korea Communications Standards Commission, who raised the so-called "civil petition owner" allegation of Ryu Hee-rim, chairman of the Korea Communications Standards Commission, can be protected as a public interest reporter by changing the purpose of the claim.

An official from the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission attended as a witness to the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communication Committee, and explained that the employees are reporters of violations of the Conflict of Interest Act, and that the Public Interest Reporters Protection Act can be applied mutatis mutandis to protect them.

He then added that although he saw no specific liability reduction until recently, reporters could consider the transfer as a disadvantage and change or add the purpose of the claim.

Employees of the Korea Communications Standards Commission, the reporter, argued that transferring to a researcher was a disadvantage in personnel affairs, and Chairman Ryu reaffirmed his previous position that he had never intervened in the allegations of civil complaints.

The allegation of complaints by the Korea Communications Standards Commission calls for Chairman Ryu to mobilize his family and acquaintances to submit a deliberation complaint about the report citing the transcript of "Kim Man-bae, Shin Hak-rim."