Kim Chang-ryong, a standing member of the Korea Communications Commission, who was appointed as a recommendation by President Moon Jae-in, criticized the prosecution’s investigation into the TV Chosun re-approval score manipulation suspicion in his retirement speech.
In his resignation speech on the 4th, Standing Committee member Kim Chang-ryong pointed out, “It was an unreasonable investigation from the beginning.”
Referring to the situation at the time of the TV Chosun re-approval review in 2020, he said, “The key issue was whether to approve or not approve TV Chosun.” Commissioner Kim Chang-ryong criticized the prosecution, saying, “The prosecution suddenly drove the KCC as a false group as if it had discovered a big problem.” He also said to the court, “The indiscriminate issuance of warrants should be criticized.”
Currently, the head of the Korea Communications Commission, the head of the Korea Communications Commission, and the chairman of the jury, a civilian, have been arrested and indicted for suspicion of score manipulation. Standing committee member Kim Chang-ryong said, “I cannot contain my anger and disappointment at the fact that public officials who have no fear of escape and who do not destroy evidence are even arrested with sloppy logic.” must be restored,” he said.
Standing committee members Kim Chang-ryong also pointed out the negative impact of the audit of the Board of Audit and Inspection and the prosecution’s investigation on the work of the Korea Communications Commission. He said, “I froze the government officials. He said, “A government that makes civil servants sluggish has no future.”
Standing committee member Kim Chang-ryong said, “As a civil servant, I have lived my life refraining from what I wanted to say, but when I become free, I will defend the victims of wrongdoing.” While serving as a professor at Inje University, Kim Chang-ryong became a standing member of the Korea Communications Commission with the recommendation of President Moon Jae-in.
Previously, Vice Chairman Ahn Hyung-hwan (recommended by the people’s strength), who retired on the 30th of last month, left a conflicting position. At a meeting with reporters the day before his retirement, Vice Chairman Ahn Hyung-hwan said, “If Chairman Han Sang-hyeok is prosecuted, I ask you one last time to make a decision for our organization.”
The president appoints one of the five members of the KCC. The successor to Commissioner Kim Chang-ryong is appointed by President Yoon Seok-yeol. Unlike members recommended by the National Assembly, the term begins immediately following being nominated by the president.
Last year, the Board of Audit and Inspection requested an investigation, saying that as a result of the Korea Communications Commission’s audit, there were suspicions that the score was intentionally manipulated at the time of TV Chosun’s re-approval in 2020, the prosecution launched an investigation. Currently, the director, director, and judges in charge were arrested and indicted, but the arrest warrant for Chairman Han Sang-hyeok was dismissed. Prosecutors charged Chairman Han Sang-hyuk with neglecting the fact of score manipulation, but did not apply the charge of ‘score manipulation instructions’.
