Dear webmaster,

How do you do? My name is James Ro working at Foreign Media Relations Team of the Korean Overseas Information Service. Please bring your attention to the webpage:

http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers//2006/06/south_korea_court_strikes_down_controver.php

In the posted article "South Korea: Court strikes down controversial Newspaper Law", there is information that you might consider revising.

First of all, the title is over-generalizing. The constitutional court struck down a media regulation that discriminated against major newspapers based on their market share, however it was not the whole Newspaper Law but one article. So, I suggest you change the title to another implying "newspaper market rule unconstitutional."

For your interest, out of all clauses in the Newspaper Law and the Press Arbitration Law that major newspaper companies had appealed against, the constitutional court ruled two as unconstitutional including the one regarding newspaper market share.

So, I would like you to change the misguiding title and to insert information saying the newspaper market share regulation was a part of the newspaper law.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
James

James Ro
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Korean Overseas Information Service(KOIS)

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Dear Maddie Hanna,

Sorry. I thought my comment was bound for the webeditor, but found the comment right below your posting. I would like you to review my comments and answer me back at jamesro@korea.net at your earliest convenience.

Best regards,
James

Hi James,

While I agree with the general message of my original posting, I understand the distinction you've made, so I modified some of the wording. Please note that I'm working with the Korea Times article, not reporting on the decision, and thus don't have an extensive background in the Newspaper Law.

Thanks for your feedback,
Maddie