(3) Where agreement is not reached pursuant to paragraph (2), the relevant political party, candidate,
broadcasting company, or press company shall without delay refer the case in question to the Election
Broadcast Deliberation Commission or the Election News Deliberation Commission, and the relevant
Commission shall deliberate on it within 48 hours from the time of reference to make a resolution of
rejection, dismissal or acceptance, and notify, without delay, the relevant political party, candidate,
broadcasting company, or press company thereof. In this case, where such Commission makes a resolution
of acceptance of the counterargument broadcast or report, it shall also determine the matters necessary for
the counterargument report such as the content, size, frequency and others. <Amended on Mar. 7, 2002>
(4) Article 15 (1), (4) through (7) of the Act on Press Arbitration and Remedies, etc. for Damage Caused
by Press Report shall apply mutatis mutandis to any request for the counterargument report. In such cases,
the "request for the correction report" shall be deemed the "request for the counterargument report", the
"correction" shall be deemed the "counterargument", the "right to file the request for the correction report"
shall be deemed the "right to file the request for counterargument report", the "correction report" shall be
deemed the "counterargument report", and the "written correction report" shall be deemed the "written
counterargument report", respectively. <Amended on Aug. 4, 2005>
Article 8-5 (Internet Election News Deliberation Commission)
(1) The National Election Commission shall establish and operate an Internet Election News Deliberation
Commission in order to maintain impartiality of election report stated on the web-sites (including the
editorial, commentaries, photograph, broadcast, motion image and other details concerning an election;
hereafter in this Article and Article 8-6, the same shall apply) of the Internet press agencies (referring to
Internet newspaper business operators under subparagraph 4 of Article 2 of Act on the Promotion of
Newspapers persons who run and manage websites, which are used to report, furnish or transmit Articles
that are covered, edited and written through the Internet with the aim of propagating reports,
commentaries, public opinions and information, etc. pertaining to politics, economy, society, culture and
current events and any other persons who run and manage the web-sites that perform the functions of the
press similar to those of the former; hereinafter the same shall apply). <Amended on Aug. 4, 2005; Jul. 31,
2009>
(2) The Internet Election News Deliberation Commission shall be composed of not more than 11 persons
commissioned by the National Election Commission, including a person recommended by each of the
political parties that form negotiating groups in the National Assembly and the persons recommended by
the Korea Communications Standards Commission, Press Arbitration Commission, community of
scholars, legal circles, Internet press organizations, civil groups, etc., and the term of office of the
members shall be three years. In such cases, the latter part of Article 8-2 (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis
to the fixed number of members. <Amended on Jan. 25, 2010>
(3) The Internet Election News Deliberation Commission shall have one chairperson, and he or she shall
be elected from among its members.
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