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ikram — June 2, 2007 / 6:04 am
On May 31st, The Journalist Association of Korea (the largest reporters’ club) submitted a letter of protest to Cheong Wa Dae (the presidential office). They lodged an official protest against new regulations restricting media access to certain key government offices.
Last week, the government announced that it would integrate the individual briefing facilities in most of the major ministries into three locations: the government complex buildings in Seoul, Gwacheon and Daejeon. Each location will get four briefing rooms and a separate office for news transmission, or reporters’ working room.
But the Cheong Wa Dae, the National Assembly, the National Police Agency, the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, the Defense Ministry and the Financial Supervisory Commission will be excluded from the new measures.
Reporters would have to request meetings through public relations officers in order to meet with government officials. They will also be banned from entering officials’ offices wihout appointments m that must be made beforehand. And meetings will take place in reserved areas.
Cheong Wa Dae says that they were designed to upgrade government press relations and the overall quality of the news. “We are trying to act according to global standards,” said presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-seon.
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