Journalist organizations say South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attacked press freedom when his office banned a TV broadcaster’s crew from the media pool on his presidential plane this week for alleged bias in reporting.
SEOUL, South Korea—
Yoon, a conservative who took office in May, doubled down Thursday on the decision to exclude MBC reporters from his plane, saying “important national interests” were at stake. Yoon leaves for Cambodia on Friday to attend the Asean meetings and will be in Indonesia the following week for the G-20 meetings.
A coalition of journalist organizations, including the Journalists Association of Korea and the National Union of Media Workers, issued a statement demanding Yoon’s office withdraw what they described as an “unconstitutional and ahistorical restriction on reporting,” and for presidential officials involved in the decision to resign.
The groups compared the incident to when the White House, under former US President Donald Trump, suspended the press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after he had a heated conversation with Trump during a news conference. Yoon’s meeting with Biden came after they both delivered speeches in support of the Global Fund, an international campaign to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The Biden administration has pledged $6 billion in US contributions to the initiative through 2025, but it is pending congressional approval. Yoon’s government has promised $100 million.
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