Content of the media outlets is regularly monitored by the public monitoring bodies. The Korea Press Ethics Commission permanently monitors news content and deliberates on violations of the Newspaper Code of Ethics, issuing notices, private warnings, and public warnings for print and online articles and advertisements. The deliberations and decisions statistics are available to the public on their website. Likewise, the Korea Communications Standards Commission monitors broadcast content regularly, while also monitoring language used in broadcast programmes. Deliberations are made quarterly, and summary reports are posted online. The commission issues sanctions while also providing administrative guidance.
As for monitoring by non-profit organisations, Citizens’ Coalition for Democratic Media provides content monitoring not only for newspaper and broadcast programmes, but also for YouTube. It also runs citizens’ communications standards commissions and organises the Reporting of this Month award to incentivise responsible and fair news reporting. Despite these content monitoring instruments, however, the balance between male and female subjects in news content is relatively overlooked in comparison with other non-news media content.
