Broadcasting Media and Communications Commission Marks 1 Year, Unveils Vision for a
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The Broadcasting Media and Communications Commission approved the "First-Phase Vision and Major Policy Measures (draft)" at its 39th plenary meeting of 2026 on the 30th.
The four goals of the measures are strengthening universal access, promoting active public-led participation, ensuring autonomous choice based on safety and trust, and building a sustainable ecosystem of innovation and mutual growth.
The commission plans to pursue a user-participation reporting system and a public-participation budget proposal system, and is also reviewing and promoting an AI user-protection regulatory framework and the enactment of an integrated media law.
The Broadcasting Media and Communications Commission announced its first-phase vision for a "media basic society" to guarantee the public's rights to use media and communications and expand policy participation in the AI era. The announcement came about one year after its launch in October last year.
On the 30th, the Broadcasting Media and Communications Commission held its 39th plenary meeting of 2026. At the meeting, it approved the "First-Phase Vision and Major Policy Measures (draft)," which includes four goals and 12 policy tasks.
The four goals in the draft measures are strengthening universal access for everyone, promoting active public-led participation, ensuring autonomous choice based on safety and trust, and building a sustainable ecosystem of innovation and mutual growth.
The commission said it will strengthen universal accessibility so that people can access media and communications services regardless of disability, age or region. The support targets include vulnerable groups such as older adults, people with disabilities, and farmers and fishers.
The support package includes vouchers for paid generative AI services. It also plans to gradually provide customized media-use vouchers tailored to each type of disability.
The commission said it will apply new technologies such as AI to broadcasting for people with disabilities. Accordingly, it plans to draw up an upgrade plan for systems that convert broadcast content into voice, subtitles, and sign language using AI, and it will also push to expand the use of those systems. In addition, it plans to develop an AI-based automatic audio description system and to share that system as well.
To expand public participation in policy making, the commission also plans to strengthen a user-participation-based telecommunications service inspection and reporting system. It introduced a "user-participation voluntary reporting system" in June. The system is intended for losses that require evidence, such as unfair subscription to advertising and other subsidies or add-on services, and allows users to report directly.
The commission plans to provide information on processing status through the reporting system. It also plans to limit the annual number of reports. The purpose is to give priority to reports from actual victims.
The commission plans to use accumulated reporting data to improve the system. At the same time, it plans to use the accumulated reporting data for market inspections as well.
The commission also plans to introduce a public-participation budget proposal system. Under this system, members of the public directly propose budget projects in the broadcasting, media and telecommunications sectors, and outstanding proposals are carried forward as actual projects. The commission is reviewing legislative and institutional steps to introduce the proposal system and plans to implement it from 2027.
The government will establish a regulatory framework for protecting AI users. The aim is to ensure autonomous choice based on safety and trust.
In the AI sector, it will pursue revisions to the Network Act in the short term to separately establish user-protection safeguards. The proposed revisions to the Network Act include special protection measures for sexual exploitation material and special protection measures related to children and adolescents.
In the medium to long term, it will consider enacting a separate law that includes user-protection obligations, guarantees of rights, and dispute mediation systems. It is also reviewing a plan to create a separate article on "user protection" in the Network Act.
In the media sector, it will pursue legislation for an "integrated media law" to build a sustainable media ecosystem. It will also push to expand the regulatory framework to include OTT.
The commission said the current media legal framework remains stuck in the integrated broadcasting law system introduced in 2000. It also said the current framework falls short of reflecting industrial realities and the influence of media platforms. It judged that the strong regulatory system introduced in the broadcasting sector in the past remains in place, while the social influence of new media types such as OTT has increased. Accordingly, the commission said there is a lack of a regulatory framework appropriate for new media types such as OTT.
Reflecting the growing influence of new media types, it is pursuing a regulatory framework that will establish basic rules commensurate with their social influence for OTT and other new media types. To that end, the commission plans to prepare a draft integrated media law by December this year and will also pursue legislation for the integrated media law.
Source: IT DAILY · Seong Won-young
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