Candidates for KBS president Kim Young-sam, Eom Gyeong-cheol, and Lee Tae-hyun are narrowed down... Final interview on the 20th
KBS Presidential Candidate National Recommendation Committee selects final interviewee for Board of Directors among 5 applicants
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The KBS Presidential Candidate National Recommendation Committee narrowed the number of former and current KBS personnel, Kim Young-sam, Eom Gyeong-cheol, and Lee Tae-hyun, to three candidates for the 28th president and recommended them to the board of directors.
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KBS has held a National Presidential Candidate Recommendation Committee to recommend the appointment of the 28th president and is proceeding with the candidate selection process.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Jin-ri = Candidates for the next president of KBS have been narrowed down to three.
On the 17th, KBS held a meeting of the National Presidential Candidate Recommendation Committee to recommend the appointment of the 28th president at the main building in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, and announced that among the five applicants, former KBS Media CEO Kim Young-sam, Eom Gyeong-cheol, currently affiliated with KBS's license fee office and former KBS Busan Broadcasting General Director, and Lee Tae-hyeon, former KBS content business director and CEO of Content Wave (in alphabetical order) were selected as candidates to participate in the final interview of the board of directors.
On this day, the death committee meeting was held from 12:20 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., with 205 people from 20 to 83 years old, representing the distribution by gender, age, and region across the country, attending.
It was also broadcast live through the KBS website, KBS+ app, and YouTube channel KBS Korea Broadcasting.
After listening to the presentation of the management plan, including management philosophy and capabilities, the committee members held a deliberative discussion for 80 minutes.
Afterwards, after a common question session for candidates asking about KBS' plan to maintain independence and ways to secure reliability, the three final interviewees were narrowed down and recommended to the board of directors.
The Board of Directors will conduct a final interview on the 20th to decide on one final candidate to recommend to the President for appointment.
Candidates recommended for appointment as president according to resolution must go through a National Assembly personnel hearing in accordance with Article 50 (2) of the Broadcasting Act, Article 65-2 of the National Assembly Act, and the Personnel Hearing Act, and are finally appointed by the President.
The term of office for the new president is three years, and he can be reappointed only once.
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