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Article 8
 

(Responsibilities of Press for Fair Reports)


Where a person who manages and controls broadcasting, a newspaper, wire service, magazine or other publications, a person who edits, gathers data,
writes or reports, or any Internet press agency provided for in the provisions of Article 8-5 (1) reports or comments on the platform or policy of a
political party, political views or other matters of a candidate (including a person who intends to be a candidate; hereafter the same shall apply in this
Article) and broadcasts or reports the interview or discussion in which a representative of a political party, a candidate or his/her proxy participates,
he/she or it shall be fair.


<Amended by Act No. 5412, Nov. 14, 1997; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005>