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The pink buildings on either side of this photo are the home of MBC, South Korea's No. 2 broadcaster. Unlike public broadcaster, Korea Broadcasting System (KBS), which is partly financed by television licensing fees, MBC is a commercial network. It is currently owned by two nonprofit foundations that were founded by, but are independent of, the national government. In the Seoul area, MBC's television feed can be seen on VHF Channel 11. In 1980, when General Chun Doo-hwan took over the government via a military coup, one of his actions to suppress dissent was to order the shutdown of all private broadcasters. MBC was the only survivor of that crackdown, if only because it sold 70% of itself to KBS at the time. After the pro-democracy revolution of 1987, the Foundation of Broadcast Culture was founded by the National Assembly in 1988, to take over KBS's 70% share of MBC and ensure that MBC would be free of political influence from the government and KBS. Private broadcasters were allowed again in 1990. MBC, like KBS around the corner, has been a key component of the so-called Korean Wave that has taken over East Asia by storm. MBC is particularly noted for producing the historical drama, Dae Jang Geum (대장금/大長今), also known by the alternate English title Jewel in the Palace, a runaway hit in Chinese-speaking countries. On the left building, which is MBC's main building, a pair of banners, put up by the labor union for MBC employees, ask for the exoneration of producers who had been criminally charged for an April 2008 documentary that criticized the hasty resumption of US beef imports by the new far-right Lee Myung-bak government. The government's position was that the ban on US beef imports was the work of the previous "anti-American" left-wing government, and therefore had to be lifted to "restore" the valuable alliance with the W Administration, but the resumption, without provisions to ensure proper inspection, was definitely in haste. The producers would eventually be acquitted in 2009. Nevertheless, under the Lee government's fascist restoration, MBC would be marching lockstep with the government in subsequent years. |
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