<Anchor> It is
an official radio broadcast using FM frequencies, but there is a community radio that can only be heard in a few nearby towns.
Reporter Jeong Seong-jin will tell you what it feels like when residents directly appear and deliver news from the area.
<Reporter>
Kang Gu-seop, a native of Okcheon, Chungcheongbuk-do in 1972.
Listening to the radio while working in a key store of less than 1 pyeong is my only pleasure.
Recently, one pleasure has increased.
104.9MHz Okcheon FM.
[Kang Gu-seop / Key Store Management: After playing it, there must be something to learn from Okcheon broadcasting, isn't it?]
Taxi driver Man-jong Joo, who has been the foot of Okcheon-gun residents for 40 years, also became a listener.
[Joo Man-jong / Taxi Driver: Everyone said hello a lot today. Any news from Okcheon, I am looking forward to it from now on.] From
teenagers to overseas immigrants, DJs, cast members, and all Okcheon residents participate.
[Okcheon FM Community Radio Thursday afternoon 'Date at two o'clock' is Yong-Joo Kim.]
Okcheon FM, which opened on the 21st, is characterized by the fact that it is a community radio that takes advantage of local characteristics and publicness amid the flood of internet and SNS.
[Lee Hae-soo/Director of Okcheon FM Community Radio: I hope that it will become a medium that can tell the story of each person without being marginalized in every corner of the town.]
Through the transmission tower installed in the center of Okcheon-eup, the story of the neighborhood is delivered to 13,000 households in the town and neighboring towns.
[Han Sang-hyeok/Chairman of Korea Communications Commission: The reality is that these media that closely connect the lives of local residents are lacking.
(I hope that (community radio) can grow as such a medium that can improve the lives of local residents.)]
Community radio, which has only had 7 since 2014, added 20 new operators this year, is positioned as
(Video coverage: Hong Jong-soo, video editing: Yumira)