Court upholds former KTV chief's suspended prison term over martial law censorship
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- A court of appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court...
On September 30, the Seoul High Court ruled to maintain the suspended one-year prison term imposed on former KTV chief Lee Eun-woo, who was charged with ordering the deletion of broadcast captions criticizing former President Yoon Suk Yeol's 2024 martial law declaration. The court upheld the previous ruling from the Seoul Central District Court in June.
Lee was accused of deleting captions that featured politicians' remarks deeming Yoon's martial law imposition unconstitutional and illegitimate. KTV, the public broadcaster he led, is a subsidiary of the Korea Policy Broadcasting Service, an organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. The appellate court endorsed the lower court's determination that Lee's directive to remove broadcast content infringed upon broadcasting principles of impartiality and balance, and violated the public's entitlement to information.
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