방송법 개정 역사를 통해 살펴본 ‘방송정책 수단’의 변화와 함의 분석

This study examines the major amendments to the revised Broadcasting Act, which have been conducted 21 times over the past 18 years since the establishment of the Broadcasting Act 2000, in terms of two policy instruments: regulatory means(strengthening or establishment / deregulation or abolition) and government intervention(coercion / self-regulation / mix). As a result of the analysis, there were an overwhelming number of amendments to the broadcasting law to strengthen regulations rather than easing regulations. According to the types of regulations, there were the highest number of amendments to the law on regulation of contents, and deregulation was the highest in the ownership regulations. The major amendments to the Broadcasting Act were mostly related to compulsory policy measures by the government. The intersection of regulatory means and government intervention has revealed that among the four areas, the number of amendments to the first area, which has a high regulation and strong government involvement, is the highest. These results means that Korean broadcast policy direction has been shown over the past 18 years to strengthen most of the policy means in areas where regulation is strong and government intervention is coercive. The origin of the 2000 Broadcasting Act was actually the Media Basic Act of 1980, and its proposed public interest was the ‘national public interest’ by state control. The results shows that such framework has been strengthened since the Broadcast Act of 2000. The studies on broadcasting policy instrument should be expanded beyond discussions centered on broadcasting policy ideology until now, and actual improvement of broadcasting policy toos needs to be made. Thus, several measures were proposed in terms of the development and improvement of broadcast policy measures.