Journalists and media experts gathered in Seoul on Monday to discuss South Korean media’s reporting tendencies on inter-Korean relations, mainly focusing on reports from the Chosun Ilbo and Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).

Journalists taking part in the Seoul panel “Current Reporting on Inter-Korean Relations,” commonly pointed Monday to worsening reporting standards, caused by what one said was the change from progressive to conservative governments.

“The expertise of the KBS journalist has been degraded since the regime change from Roh Moo-hyun to Lee Myung-bak,” said Kim Jung-hwan, a 20-year KBS reporter who once covered the Ministry of Unification (MoU) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“The expert