This Study is mainly focused on the ways to improve the system of relief in cases of press infrigement, with a special emphasis on the Korean Press Arbitration Commission.
Cardinal analysis was made as below in this study.
1. the legal basis and cha...
This Study is mainly focused on the ways to improve the system of relief in cases of press infrigement, with a special emphasis on the Korean Press Arbitration Commission.
Cardinal analysis was made as below in this study.
1. the legal basis and characteristics of Press Arbitration Commission(PAC).
2. Haw PAC is accepted to journalists and the general public.
3. what relationship with PAC and press ethic commission(PEC), the press self control system.
4. whether there are some discord with constitution in PAC or not.
5. what kind of affection PAC occur to actual activity of journalists.
6. the rational ways to improve the press arbitration system.
The PAC is very unique because that is a compulsory system backed up by law of periodicals. the similar system couldn't seen in other country. the PAC was started in 1981 base on basic law of the press. As well known, the law was made to control the press by the couped military government.
Despite this vulnerable point in born, the PAC has been faithfully fulfilling its duty for the last 20 years. Now the commission is being recognized for its nessecity by the public and is doing it's mission in cases of press infrigement.
But doing the mission by the government office, not by the court is still vulnerable point and basic problem of this system, the mission is checking the details of press reporting and making judgements in cases of press infrigement.
There are no democratic countries that have this kind of system. We can see the similar systems in socialism countries or military rolling countries.
In this study, we have known the PAC is blamed as unconstitutional in such points as consideration and authoritative arbitration function. and the faction of PAC is overlapping with the press ethic commission(PEC), the press self control system. there is another blame of the government system make the self control system powerless.
So the only way the PAC has strong power maintaining the structure and system is by changing the character of the commission from compulsive system to self control system.