Song Yo-hun, a former MBC executive who later served as broadcasting director at Arirang International Broadcasting, has been appointed secretary-general of the Broadcasting, Media and Communications Review Board.
Media Today reported that the board announced Song’s appointment on the 15th; the posting takes effect on the 16th.
Song joined MBC in 1987 and became Arirang’s broadcasting director in 2021. In 2024 he applied for a board seat at the Korea Broadcasting Culture Promotion Foundation, MBC’s largest shareholder, but was not selected. He sued Lee Jin-sook, then chair of the Korea Communications Commission, seeking to overturn the foundation’s appointment decision; the Seoul Administrative Court ruled in his favor in August last year. In 2024 Song also served on the election broadcast review committee for the re- and by-elections, nominated by the Democratic Party.
President Lee Jae-myung approved Go Gwang-heon’s nomination as chair of the board on the 14th, signing the same day the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee adopted its confirmation report. Both Go and Song are members of the Media Crisis Conference, a group of veteran media figures formed to oppose press suppression and advocate media reform.
