Youth journalists challenge ban on minors registering media outlets

Youth journalists challenge ban on minors registering media outlets

Students braved near-freezing temperatures outside Seoul's Constitutional Court on Tuesday to call for legal recognition of youth-led media and to challenge legal provisions they say restrict press freedoms. "We had to stand up against oppression from the school with our bare hands," said Moon Sung-ho, a 15-year-old student at Yeonshin Middle School and editor-in-chief of Tokipul, an independent student newspaper. "Registering our newspaper as an official media outlet would protect us under the

By The Korea Herald