| | Media Tax Probe and Reform Movement South Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | On the one hand, the progressive Hankyoreh Shinmun, smaller newspapers such as Kyunghyang Shinmun, the government-owned Daehan Maeil, and the publicly-managed broadcasting companies KBS and MBC insisted on acceptance of the audit, heralding it as a step toward media reform. |
 | | Hankyoreh also denounced the Chosun Ilbo and Dong-a Ilbo for having been pro-Japanese during the period of Japanese Imperialist rule, and subservient to the military dictatorship during the pre-1987 authoritarian era. |
 | | It is well known that the Hankyoreh Shinmun strongly supports the media tax audit despite having been among those fined - indeed, the newspaper had consistently called for such an audit before it was conducted - and supports the Kim Dae-Jung administration's reforms beyond the media as well. |
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