Voices of Leaders from the Public Broadcasters International Conference (PBI Tokyo 2022) [Part II]

An annual conference of Public Broadcasters International (PBI) was held in November 2022 in Tokyo. The Overseas Media Studies group of the NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute researches latest development of the public service media (PSM) around the world, which have been expanding their service beyond traditional broadcast to internet. The group interviewed six representatives of American, European, and Asian PSM who took part in the PBI Tokyo 2022, asking what challenges each media outlet was facing and what roles PSM should play amidst the dramatic change in the environment surrounding information and communication media. In the March issue, the authors examined the challenges and roles of PSM by extracting distinctive remarks from the interviews as well as highlighting common issues. This article features the BBC of the United Kingdom and the KBS of the Republic of Korea, both of which place the licence fee as the foundation of the service, reporting each interview in detail with supplementary information on each country’s broadcasting system and other relevant issues.