[Korea.net News, Government Press Releases, May 1 2007] IPI welcomes improvements in the media environment

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, issued a statement in the afternoon of April 30 (Austrian time), welcoming several positive changes in Korea's media environment instituted by the Lee Myung-bak Administration following its inauguration. Among other things, IPI gave special significance to the reopening of pressrooms closed by the previous administration.

IPI Public Statements

IPI Welcomes South Korean President's Commitment to Improved Media Environment

30 April 2008

PRESS RELEASE

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, welcomes President Lee Myung-bak's recently-voiced promise to embrace a "press-friendly policy," and invites him to go further by implementing much-needed legal reforms in South Korea.