|
Cheong Wa Dae said Monday that weekly conferences with 19 top government officials will be held in order to fine-tune the government's efforts to promote its policies. Also, the government began its controversial Internet newspaper.
Among those selected to meet every Thursday was Deputy Chief Jeong Soon-gyu from the Government Information Service, who recently sparked controversy by contributing an article to a foreign newspaper in which he degraded the Korean reporters.
The government's Internet news service (www.news.go.kr) was launched on Monday despite continuing criticisms. The Internet news service is divided into six sections: general news, media, current issues, local government news, readers' opinions and public officials' opinions.
The news service also provides the government's explanations or rebuttals regarding recent press reports, in three separate sections. The first government explanation on Monday was an authoritative interpretation of the five-day workweek law and related wage issues.
The Government Information Service's promotion bureau chief, Hwang Hyun-tak, said that the agency had requested that the National Assembly allot it a W1.3 billion ($1.1 million) budget for both its Internet and hard-copy newspapers. Hwang added that this year about W700 million was used for the printed government newspaper.
(Han Jae-hyun, rookie@chosun.com )
|
