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Unfair Practices Investigation Support

링크공유 프린트

The purpose.

  • The establishment and the management of a system for the constant surveillance of the market for the creation of a just environment of the broadcasting market.
  • The contribution to the promotion of the rights and the interests of the watchers through a surveillance of the profit-impeding acts by the watchers of the charged broadcasts.

The contents of the business.

The surveillance of the unjust acts between the businessmen, which have been prohibited in the Broadcasting Law, the IPTV Law, the Media Rep Law, etc. And the surveillance of the profit-impeding acts by the watchers. And the support for the improvement.

  • Through a written investigation regarding the broadcasting businessmen, the understanding of the types and the case examples of the illegal acts. The support for the actual inspection and the administrative measure of the government.
  • Through the monitoring of the unfair acts in the charged broadcasts, the profit-impeding acts of the watchers are excavated. And, when needed, the encouragement to prepare an improvement proposal to a broadcasting businessman when needed.

Article 85-2 (The prohibited acts) of the Broadcasting Law.

(1) The broadcasting businessman, the relay cable broadcasting businessman, the music cable broadcasting businessman, the electronic display broadcasting businessman, and the transmission network businessman (To be called “the broadcasting businessmen” below) may not do an act (To be called “the prohibited acts” below) that pertains to any one of each of the following items that have the worry of a just competition between the businessmen or that impede the profit of the watcher or that have the worry of impeding the profit of the watcher or they may not make a 3rd party do these.

[Amended on March 13, 2015 and on December 22, 2015]

  1. The act of refusing, suspending, or restricting the approach regarding the facilities that are indispensable in the provision of a channel program or in the provision of a service by the other broadcasting businessmen and the others of the like without a just reason. Or, the act of changing the organization of a channel.
  2. The act of refusing, delaying, or restricting the optimal distribution of the profit to the other broadcasting businessmen and the others of the like.
  3. The act of interfering with the watching of a broadcast by the other broadcasting businessmen and the others of the like unfairly. Or, the act of interfering with the conclusion of a service provision contract.
  4. The act of providing a broadcasting service with a markedly advantageous or disadvantageous charge or use condition by discriminating the watcher unfairly.
  5. The act of providing a broadcasting service by violating the terms and conditions or the act of invoicing a usage charge with a content that is different from the usage contract.
  6. The act of unfairly misusing the information of the watcher that got around to being known in the process of the provision of a broadcasting service.
  7. The act of a broadcasting channel use businessman, who does the specialized organization regarding the product introductions and the sales, deciding, cancelling, or changing unfairly the date, the time, the amount, and the production cost of a product sale broadcast with the organization of the broadcast as the condition regarding the delivery person.
  8. The act of making a person who intends to appear in a broadcasting program because of a reason that does not have a relation with the production of a broadcasting program by violating the purposes of the decision on the provisional disposition between a person who intends to appear in a broadcasting program according to a request by a person other than the management and staff of the broadcasting businessman and a person who is other than the broadcasting businessman, the definite decision ruling, the mediation, the arbitration, etc. not able to appear.
  • The written investigation of the unjust acts by the small and medium broadcasting businessman. 시청자 참여프로그램  KBS ‘열린채널’ 사진
  • The improvement of the behavior of the unjust acts (The autonomous improvement actual work consultation body) 법규준수 유도(수시교육)