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Special efforts were put in to ensure the success of WJC2021 with its mixture of in-person and online participations (WJC2021)
SEOUL: Participants at the World Journalists Conference 2021 have hailed the annual meeting as a tremendous success.
Journalists paid special tribute to the Journalists Association of Korea and the organizers for their special endeavors to iron out any obstacle and ensure that the conference, held both in-person for people living in Korea, and online, for the journalists coming from 50 countries, exceeded expectations.
“Dear friends in WJC team! It was better than any online Conference provided before,” Kuban from Kyrgyzstan, commented.
“You have good experience and solved all problems smoothly. Very well done! Wish you more successes and hope to see you again!”
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Egypt)
Editor-in-Chief, the Silk Road Literature Series
CAIRO: Since the dawn of history, through the centuries, humanity has been resisting diseases and epidemics that stroke the planet. We had known all about that in the past; thanks to historians. But in modern times we owe the press to document the few previous centuries since the inception of the first newspaper (1690), through all media platforms from radio (1901), television (1927), to reach the era of virtual media via the Internet, launched in the late 1960s.
Since its birth, the press has followed waves of diseases and outbreaks of epidemics, just as it has monitored the efforts of doctors and scientists to resist and discover treatments and medicines for them. Those who read specialized journalism will discover the birth of a new world of scientific media, and medical journalism that has provided all the world’s citizens with a new space in which this journalistic pen can cope with all aspects o
Journalists Association of Korea President Kim Dong Hoon delivering his welcome remarks (Picture by Seok-Jae Kang)
SEOUL: The Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea has stressed that the value of journalism has become much more invaluable in a new world where anyone can easily produce, distribute and consume information thanks to the development of digital technology and people’s thirst for the truth becomes more unquenchable.
“In this new world, I think the role of the media lies in the truth. I believe that when the media shed light on the world through truthful communication and balanced perspectives, its role as a mirror and window will truly shine,” Chung Sye-kyun said.
JAK President Dong Hoon Kim addressing the 2020 conference (Picture by Sang-ki Lee)
SEOUL: The Journalists Association of Korea (JAK), the largest organization of professional journalists in Korea with a current membership of over 10,000 individual journalists, will hold its World Journalists Conference 2021 (WJC 2021) on April 19-20.
Sang-ki Lee, a former president of JAK and of the Asian Journalists Association (AJA) and publisher of Asia N told an AJA virtual meeting they were looking forward to another successful and beneficial global conference for the media, particularly as the world is going through drastic changes caused by the global pandemic.
The World Journalists Conference is an annual event that brings together journalists and media experts from across the world to discuss the role of the media in contributing to the development of journalism and maintaining peace both in Korea and the world.