AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Government issues ultimatum to shut down pressroom

AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Government issues ultimatum to shut down pressroom:
"The Government Information Agency will cut all services in old government pressrooms this Thursday

The Korea Times
Monday, October 8, 2007
By Yoon Won-sup

The Government Information Agency said Monday that it will close down all the government pressrooms on Thursday, except the newly built pressroom of the Central Government Complex in Seoul. 'Because the government conducts all the briefings in the central pressroom, the pressrooms in government agencies will not operate from Oct. 11,' the agency said in a statement. The agency further said that any support or service of facilitating reporters' coverage will stop in those pressrooms starting Thursday, and asked reporters to move to the new central pressroom by Wednesday."