Dr. Young-Gil Chae is a communication scholar who has written broad range of Journalism, Global Communication, and Community Media. He has particular interests in understanding communication processes mediated media institutions and technologies with the belief that media communication is key to enable social change for justice and democracy in Korea. He is a professor at Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies at Seoul, Korea. Before joining the university, to which he is currently affiliated, he studied at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and received his master's and doctoral degrees in Communication Studies. He also believes that communication scholar should find their active role not only in the scholarly field but also in the civic spheres. He serves as a member of Policy Committee of the Citizens Coalition for Democratic Media(CCDM), which is one of the most active and influential civic organizations in Korea. He also serves as a board member of Mapo FMm which is a community radio in Seoul, and as a steering committee member of MWTV (Migrant Worker’s TV), which is leading immigrant community media in Seoul. He is also the senior managing director of the Korean Society for Journalism and Information Studies, a progressive journalism and media academic society in Korea, and is an editorial board member of Media and Society.

Profile Sonho Kim is a Primary Research Fellow at the Korea Press Foundation where he conducts research on various topics relating to journalism and digital media with policy implications. Recently, he proposed that the government implement media vouchers as a way of financially supporting journalism in the digital environment. He worked on the Digital News Report project with Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Sonho Kim teaches public opinion and political communication at the Graduate School of Journalism and Public Relations of the Yonsei University, and serves as the Secretary General of the Korean Association for Broadcasting and Telecommunication Studies. Education Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (PhD) [2011] Department of Newspaper and Broadcasting, Korea University (BA) [1996] Awards Gallup Excellent Paper Award, Korean Association for Survey Research [2019] Woodang Emerging Scholar Award, Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies [2014]

Kim Seung-Jae is an award-winning journalist, specializing in investigative journalism and North Korea. Seung-Jae has worked as a seniar reporter, Beijing bureau chief, and national news editor at YTN, a leading news channel in Seoul, South Korea since joining in 1994. He intensively revealed the mismanagement of the Korean Red Cross on national blood services. He also reported the former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak’s abusing public tennis courts when he was Seoul mayor in 2006. These reports won several awards, including ‘Journalist of the Month Award of the Korea Journalists Association.’ As Beijing bureau chief (2010~2013), Kim built various confidential sources on North Korea, including senior officials, and is now contributing in-depth reports on North Korea to print media for a decade. His publications include ‘Kim Jong-un in India, North Korean landscape after that' (2015) and 'Clothes Factory of the World, North Korea' (2020), which became the issue at the annual audit session by National Assembly. Currently, he is keen to investigate the ‘illusion’ of UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea and the lives and human rights of North Korean overseas workers.

Kim is a representative international conflict journalist from South Korea. Young-mi started with SBS special documentary (Blue Angel in East Timor) in 2020. She dealt with the problem of Afghanistan's gender discrimination in KBS Sunday special (Afghan women who take off burqas) (2002). She reported Iraq War and Afghanistan War in SBS special documentary (Touch-and-go, Go to Iraq) (2003), MBC emergency reportage (Send Troops, Record of 100 Days, Zaytun Division) (2004), (Send troops in Iraq, That long way) (2004), etc. Kim made a documentary in Japan NTV International department from 2002 to 2005. She also documented SBS (Daughters of Islam) (2005), (Reporting Somalia Dongwon-ho - Why does the homeland leave alone us?) (2006) broadcasting in MBC (PD Note), MBC special (Lebanon on fire) (2008), KBS Wednesday special (Iraq of U.S. military) (2008), trilogy documentary (Himalayas Coffee Road) about fair-trade broadcasting in EBS (Docuprime). 2007 ~ present: She is writing an article as Editor of Sisa IN International problem department. 2010 ~ present: As a Documentary Producer, she reported SBS March 1st Movement special (Resistance of Flower - Manse Movement of Kisaeng), SBS special (ISIS, Islamic combatant, and boys), SBS special documentary (Bread of Peace in East Timor), etc. Kim wrote famous books (Why does the world fight?), (Himalayas Coffee Road), (Person is Sick), (Peace School), etc. She worries about peace and troubled regions. She is currently reporting Myanmar Democratic Movement.

He reported May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement as The Chunnam Maeil's photojournalist in May 1980, and he disclosed martial law military's brutality and the horrors of Gwangju citizens. His photographs are very important to inform the truth ascertainment of May 18 Democratic Movement. Na got various awards Courage in Journalist Award, Award for Press Photo of the Month of Journalists Association of Korea, Award for Journalist of the Month of Journalists Association of Korea, etc. He is currently serving as a Member of the Long-term Care Review Commission, National Health Insurance Service (Dong-gu and Nam-gu of Gwangju) and Director of Gwangju Sports Association. He graduated from the Gwangju University of Arts with, Bachelor's degree in photography. During the got Master´s degree in politics in the Graduate school of Journalism & Mass Communication, Gwangju University, he wrote thesis that title is 'A Study on the Role of Press Photographs on May 18 Gwangju Democratic Movement.'

Noh Suntag was born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. He studied politics at the university and photography at graduate school. His main interest is how Korean War that occurred before a half-century appears in a ‘changed format’ to current Korean society. A divided system repeatedly operates and fails in South and North Korea, and it distorts the politics, economy, and culture of the Korean Peninsula. This situation maintains the ‘ mirror system’ that they extremely hate and resemble each other. Noh is observing a crack between a hostile coexistence relationship to report ‘eyewitness account’ constantly through photo and writing. He has held a private exhibition and written a book the inside and outside of the country. It was started by (Fragrance of the Division) and continued to (The Strange Ball), (Red Frame), (State of Emergency), (Good, Murder), (The Forgetting Machine), (Looking for the Lost Thermos ), and (Sneaky Snakes in Scenes of Incompetence). Especially, (The Forgetting Machine) is continuing work for sixteen years. This work treated the problem that is memory, oblivion, commemoration, and defame of Korean society toward May Gwangju in 1980.

Tae Kyoung Suh, A journalist for 35 years, has been in the front line of news as he captured brutality of war torn countries, joyful scenes of olympics and covering variety of social issues by investigative journalism. He graduated Journalism department of Hanyang University in 1984 and joined Munhwa broadcast corporation as a journalist that year. It was a period which the press was controlled by the military dictator regime so he joined the MBC press union to fight for media freedom. In 1991 during the Gulf War I, he remained on the stricken field and covered the news while the NATO were airstriking on Baghdad. He won the Choi Byoung Woo International Press Award for this coverage. During his time as a correspondent in Paris(1998-2001), he covered the Kosovo civil war and the devastating Izmit Turkey earthquake. Afterwards he worked on investigative documentaries like ‘Camera Dispatch’, ‘Current Affairs Magazine 2580’ and ‘Straight’ In 2004 as a manager of news department, he contributed to the modernization of broadcasting system such as RAW archive and video transmission system. After finishing his position as a deputy director of the camera division, he came back to investigative documentaries again until he finished his career as a journalist.

Dr. Lee is a researcher at the ‘Korean Studies Institute’ (located in Andong, Korea), and he worked for the sharing, collecting, and preserving the value of the traditional documentary heritage from the private sectors. He was responsible for registering the (Maninso, Ten Thousand People’s Petitions) on the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia-Pacific (MOWCAP) at the MOWCAP General Meeting held in Gwangju in 2018. Dr. Lee served as the secretary-general of the Korea Memory of the World Knowledge Center (KMoW-KC, 2018-2019) and the International Association for Printing Woodblocks (IAPW, 2017-2019). He worked as a leading role in establishing a consultative body for MoW Conservation Organizations in Korea. From 2019 to 2021, he served as an expert member of the World Heritage Division of the Cultural Heritage Committee at the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. Even now, Dr. Lee is studying the value of Korean traditional documentary heritage, and he is also working on the worth of the documentary heritage through various media, including video. He is a leader of the Contents Development Team at the Korean Studies Institute, shares the value of traditional documentary heritage, and seeks to utilize them in modern times.

Akihiro Nonaka is a journalist and film producer based in Japan. He is also the representative and director of Asian Press International. He is currently a professor at both the Journalism and Politics Studies of Graduate School of Education school at Waseda University. Nonaka is Japanese American. He has covered issues of the third　world, especially in Asia. Some topics included Indochinese conflict, Afghanistan civil war, famine in Ethiopia, Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman in World War II, Cambodian civil war, Democratization in Myanmar, Armed struggle of ethnic minorities, HIV/AIDs in Thailand, Independence conflict in East Timor and Tibet, Korean Peninsula issue, and Iraq War. In 1987, Nonaka founded Asian Press International that has strict reporting rules, one of Japan’s few agencies for independent journalists based in Asia. He is a winner of the Broadcasting Creators Association of Japan award in May, 2004. He has been focusing on journalist education at journalism research institutes of the University of Tokyo, Rikkyo University, and Waseda University.

Tae-Ung Baik is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is also Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), which reviews the enforced disappearance cases submitted to the UN. Dr. Baik received his Bachelor of Law degree from Seoul National University College of Law, and earned his master (LL.M.) and doctoral (J.S.D.) degrees on international human rights law from Notre Dame Law School. He was admitted to the Bar as an attorney-at-law in the State of New York. He teaches international human rights law, comparative law, and Korean Law.

He joined TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), one of the biggest television networks in Japan, in 1992. For several years as a news cameraman, he covered a series of historic incidents and disasters. His actions were not only limited to Japan, but also covered stories around the world, like the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Aum cult incidents, Peruvian hostage crisis, etc. He posted to the TBS New York Bureau in 1997 and the 9/11 attacks happened in 2001, and he filmed the World Trade Center collapsing right in front of his eyes. Then, he transferred to London Bureau. From 2005 to 2009, he traveled extensively across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In Kenya and Greenland, he produced short documentaries on environmental issues. He also reported a story on the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, in 2007. After he returned to Japan, he continued to work as a news cameraman and producer. He was “on the spot” when North Korea shelled Yeongpyeong Island and the Libyan revolt against Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. In 2017, He became a chief editor of the three-hour-long evening news program. He has extensive experience both as a news cameraman and a producer. His expertise now lies in the role of a director of the Foreign News Department in TBS.

Sanitz has a lot of experience in journalistic production, design of mega coverage, and putting into the air. He has been doing this work for 20 years, and Sanitz has been perfecting and updating it. He incorporates knowledge permanently through courses, lectures, and postgraduate courses. In September 2018, Sanitz participated in the CNN Journalism Fellowship, at the CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. In February 2020, he was appointed journalistic producer of Todo Noticias (TN). He is in charge of all the journalistic and editorial content of the signal.

Tim Shorrock is a Washington-based journalist who specializes in investigative reporting with a focus on East Asia and US national security issues. He is the author of the 2008 book Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. For the past 38 years, he has been a correspondent for The Nation, one of America’s oldest political magazines, and over the past three years has been closely covering the Korea peace and denuclearization process involving the United States and the two Koreas. Shorrock grew up in Japan and South Korea, where his parents worked as Christian relief workers after World War II and the Korean War. He is well-known in Korea for revealing, in 1996, the secret background role played by the Carter administration in the Korean military’s suppression of the Gwangju Citizens Uprising in 1980. In 2015, he was named an honorary citizen of the city of Gwangju in recognition of his stories about the 1980 uprising. The original copies of his declassified US government documents that formed that basis of his 1996 stories are now stored and are available to researchers at the Gwangju 5.18 Archives.

He graduated from Chonnam National University with a Bachelor of Economics, and he got Ph.D. in Business Administration at Chosun University. Jay acted member of the civilian army in Operation Center from Jeollanamdo Provincial Hall during the Gwangju Democratization Movement in May 1980. He was arrested in October 1980, and he was released in 1981 as a special amnesty given on 15 August. Lee is the author of 「Gwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age」(2017.05.15.), which is a key role in spreading the truth of The May 18 Democratic Movement with Hwang Seokyong and Jeon Yongho. He edited ‘The Kwangju Uprising (M.E. Sharpe)’ which is the records of Foreign/Domestic correspondents and issued it with Henry Scott Stokes (New York Times Special Correspondent) in the U.S.

Ian Phillips is the head of AP's international news department, managing teams of journalists in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The role includes running a multi-million-dollar budget, driving strategic initiatives, hiring staff, customer liaison and crisis management. In recent years, he designed and implemented a restructuring of AP's news operations to bring three departments -- text, photos and video -- under one streamlined leadership structure. Previous posts include running the Middle East and east-central Europe. he enjoy building effective and diverse teams, accomplishing ambitious targets and helping develop careers. He likes public speaking, have moderated a debate at the World Economic Forum and given public presentations on AP journalism across the world. He has interviewed world leaders such as Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.

Juliana Ruhfus is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and TV presenter, specialised in human rights and investigative work. She produced films for some of the world’s largest broadcasters before joining Al Jazeera English, where she stayed for 15 years as the senior presenter on the “People & Power” series. After making some of the shows most memorable and highest rating programmes, Juliana has now returned to freelancing, combining work for Al Jazeera and other broadcasters with writing and training. Over the past two decades Juliana has worked in nearly 50 countries and across six continents. In 2013, Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) named her one of the top 100 journalists covering conflict and a year later she was awarded the Ochberg Fellowship, followed by a scholarship for Harvard's Global Trauma Programme. Juliana serves on the board of directors for the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma (Europe), the board of trustees for the Environmental Justice Foundation, and on the advisory board for eyeWitness to Atrocities. Beyond filmmaking Juliana’s desire to find new audiences for investigative journalism resulted in the production of innovative digital storytelling projects including the multi-award winning "Pirate Fishing - Interactive Investigation" and the development of a Google DNI funded chat-based storytelling tool.

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one-time finalist, Martha Mendoza’s reports have prompted Congressional hearings and new legislation, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She was part of a team whose investigations into slavery in the Thai seafood business led to the freedom of more than 2,000 men. During her Associated Press career, she’s been based in Mexico City, Bangkok, Silicon Valley, New York and New Mexico and is currently a member of the AP’s Investigative Team. Mendoza studied journalism and obtained a California teaching credential at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she has since returned to teach for more than a decade in the Master’s Science Communication program. She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a Ferris Professor at Princeton University. In 2020 she won an Emmy for a FRONTLINE/PBS collaboration “Kids Caught In The Crackdown.”

Woochul was a former video journalist for a major public broadcaster MBC in South Korea. He has covered diverse news events from politics, economics, social affairs, and culture at both a local and international level. Combined with his work experience in journalism, he has taught university students journalism and media production. He is currently researching the future of the public sphere and journalism.

Tonya Hyungsil Park is an award-winning TV documentarist currently employed as an executive producer at Arirang TV, the leading global TV & radio network in Seoul, Korea. She has produced and directed many TV documentaries since her first program in 2005, which covered the Israel–Palestine conflict through their parallel history and opinions towards peace in the region. Her debut documentary integrated South Korean perspectives on the conflict zone, focusing particularly on issues of peace, revenge, and reconciliation.

Ahmed Assar is the Reuters Video Editor for Asia and is based in Singapore. His 28 years journey with Reuters started in Cairo as a television producer. Since 1994, Ahmed has covered breaking news across Asia, Europe and the Middle East and Africa, including – to name a few - wars in the Balkan and Iraq, the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Libya as well as the Beijing Olympics. A few months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Ahmed moved to Dubai to establish Reuters Television's first office in the Gulf region. In 2006, Ahmed moved to Singapore to head the Asia TV desk, where he led the global TV team covering the Beijing Olympics. Ahmed became Asia Editor Video in 2014, and since then he has anchored several major stories across the region and beyond including, the disappearance & search of MH370, the Arab Spring uprisings, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jung-un and most recently, the coronavirus pandemic and the coup in Myanmar.

Christophe Deloire has been secretary-general and executive director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2012. He is also the chair of the Forum on Information and Democracy. He ran one of the leading French journalism schools, the CFJ, from 2008 to 2012. He was previously an investigative reporter for the French news magazine Le Point from 1998 to 2007. He has also worked for the TV channels ARTE and TF1, made documentary films, edited several authors and published many bestselling books.

Ahmed Assar is the Reuters Video Editor for Asia and is based in Singapore. His 28 years journey with Reuters started from Cairo as a television producer in 1994 and has been responsible for covering everything from conflicts to peace talks to archaeological discoveries. During his time in the middle east, he covered Turkey's battle with the Kurds, the Balkans war, the Iraq war, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A few months before the September 11, 2001, attacks, Ahmed moved to Dubai to establish Reuters Television's first office in the Gulf region.
Later in 2006, Ahmed moved to Singapore to head the Asia TV desk and he has also led the global TV team covering the Beijing Olympics. Ahmed became Asia Editor Video in 2014, since then he has anchored several major stories across the region and beyond including, the disappearance & search of MH370, the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya, Trump- Kim Summits, Coronavirus pandemic & Myanmar Coup to name a few.

Bruno Federico is an award winner Italian filmmaker and cinematographer based in NYC, following a decade in Colombia, where he started making independent documentaries in 2010. In the 2021 the series he shot and produced about the extra-continental migration through Latino America won an Emmy, a Peabody Award, a National Headliner, and a Hinzpeter Award.
Since 2016 he regularly shoots and produces feature reports for the PBS NewsHour. Since 2020 he filmed several documentaries for Foreign Correspondent, the international documentary strand of the ABC (Australia). His coverage of Colombia’s peace process was recognized with a 2017 Overseas Press Club Award (with Nadja Drost).
He has also shot and directed several independent documentary films, including "El Gigante" (The Giant) that picked up special mentions at international film festivals, and "Apuntando al Corazón" (Striking the Heart), a critical examination of the Colombian military’s propaganda campaigns.
He is currently in the sixth year of production on a documentary film with journalist and filmmaker Nadja Drost, The End of Our War, about a FARC guerrilla fighter and mother who lays down arms in Colombia’s peace deal.
He came to filmmaking and journalism after working for many years with trade unions and human rights organizations and enjoys the opportunities journalism and filmmaking gives him to keep exploring and exposing issues he has long cared about, focusing on social and environmental conflicts.

Dr. Chae is currently a professor at Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies at Seoul, Korea. He received his M.A. and Ph. D in Communication from The University of Texas at Austin. He is joint representative of Citizen’s Coalition of Democratic Media, which is a civic NGO dedicated to promoting the democratization of media in Korea. His current research interests focus on areas in community media, global communication, media, and public diplomacy and journalism studies. His research paper appears in a wide variety of both international and national journals including Communication Monographs, Global Media, and Communication, International Journal of Communication, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Korean Journal of Broadcasting and Telecommunication Studies, and Korean Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies. He is the author of the book Community Media Theories and Practices and co-authored books including Understanding Journalism in Korea and Modern Society and Media. He also edited a book Public Diplomacy and Communication. His articles also appeared in the encyclopedia in the field of communication such as Encyclopedia of Social Movements Media (SAGE) and International Encyclopedia of Communication (Wiley).

Hong completed his bachelor's degree in Journalism at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and his master's degree in Journalism at Korea University. In 2008, Hong earned a Ph.D. in Communications from Florida State University.
He was a researcher at the Learning System Institute (LSI) of Florida State University in 2006. After Hong came back to South Korea in 2009, he was the Programming Evaluation Head of the broadcasting business operator evaluation at the Korea Communications Commission for six years. From 2014 to 2017, Hong was a member of the Press Arbitration Commission.
Currently, he is a member of the Channel A Audience Advisory Council and MC of MBN's "Talking about News." Hong has been teaching students as a professor of Media and Advertising at Hansei University for 14 years.

Sonho Kim (PhD) is a Primary Research Fellow at the Korea Press Foundation where he conducts research on various topics relating to journalism and digital media with policy implications. Recently, he proposed that the government implement media vouchers which enable citizens to participate in supporting quality journalism. He worked on the Digital News Report project with Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.
Sonho Kim has taught public opinion and political communication at the Graduate School of Journalism and Public Relations of Yonsei University. He graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (PhD) and Department of Newspaper and Broadcasting, Korea University (BA). He was awarded the Gallup Excellent Paper Award from the Korean Association for Survey Research (2019) and the Woodang Emerging Scholar Award from the Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (2014).

Kim is an award-winning journalist, specializing in investigative journalism and North Korea. He has worked as a seniar reporter, Beijing bureau chief, and national news editor at YTN, a leading news channel in Seoul, South Korea since joining in 1994.
Kim intensively revealed the mismanagement of the Korean Red Cross on national blood services. He also reported the former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak’s abusing public tennis courts when he was Seoul mayor in 2006. These reports won several awards, including ‘Journalist of the Month Award of the Korea Journalists Association.’
As Beijing bureau chief (2010~2013), Kim built various confidential sources on North Korea, including senior officials, and is now contributing in-depth reports on North Korea to print media for a decade.
His publications include ‘Kim Jong-un in India, North Korean landscape after that' (2015) and 'Clothes Factory of the World, North Korea' (2020), which became the issue at the annual audit session by National Assembly.
Currently, he is keen to investigate the ‘illusion’ of UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea and the lives and human rights of North Korean overseas workers.

Kim is a representative international conflict journalist from South Korea. Young-me started with SBS special documentary (Blue Angel in East Timor) in 2000. She dealt with the problem of Afghanistan's gender discrimination in KBS Sunday special (Afghan women who take off burqas) (2002). She reported Iraq War and Afghanistan War in SBS special documentary (Touch-and-go, Go to Iraq) (2003), MBC emergency reportage (Send Troops, Record of 100 Days, Zaytun Division) (2004), (Send troops in Iraq, That long way) (2004), etc. Kim made a documentary in Japan NTV International department from 2002 to 2005. She also documented SBS (Daughters of Islam) (2005), (Reporting Somalia Dongwon-ho - Why does the homeland leave alone us?) (2006) broadcasting in MBC (PD Note), MBC special (Lebanon on fire) (2008), KBS Wednesday special (Iraq of U.S. military) (2008), trilogy documentary (Himalayas Coffee Road) about fair-trade broadcasting in EBS (Docuprime). 2007 ~ present: She is writing an article as Editor of Sisa IN International problem department. 2010 ~ present: As a Documentary Producer, she reported SBS March 1st Movement special (Resistance of Flower - Manse Movement of Kisaeng), SBS special (ISIS, Islamic combatant, and boys), SBS special documentary (Bread of Peace in East Timor), etc. Kim wrote famous books (Why does the world fight?), (Himalayas Coffee Road), (Person is Sick), (Peace School), etc. She worries about peace and troubled regions. She is currently reporting Myanmar Democratic Movement.

Woochul was a former video journalist for a major public broadcaster MBC in South Korea. He covered diverse news events from politics, economics, social affairs, and culture at both a local and international level. Combined with his work experience in journalism, he has taught university students journalism and media production. After achieving MSc. in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he is currently researching the future of journalism, media activism, and digital culture at Simon Fraser University in Canada at the doctoral level.

Lee earned a master's degree and a Ph. D. in Indian Ancient History from the Department of History at the University of Delhi. He has been a professor at Busan University of Foreign Studies since 1990. In 2002, Lee won the Third Participatory Scholarship for his translation of John W. Spellman's "Political Theory of Ancient India." He was a director of the May 18 Foundation. Lee is currently co-representative of the Solidarity of Peace and Human Rights of Asia in Busan and chairperson of the Manwon Solidarity to support the livelihood of laid-off people.
He wrote, "Deep Reading of Hindus in Historiography, Not Religious Studies"(Seoul: Blue History 2021), "Buddha and Camera"(Seoul: Noonbit Publishing Co., 2015), etc. His paper is "‘Making Barbarians’ and ‘Mimicking the Civilization’: Social Implication of the Portrait Photography in Victorian Colonial India," "History and the World," and "The 1947 Partition and a Shift in the Identities of Pakistani Refugees in Delhi," "Historical Criticism" 81st, 2007, "'Nation' in the Taliban Government of Afghanistan," "Annals of Korean Association of the Islamic Studies," etc.

Dr, Lee is a researcher at the ‘Korean Studies Institute’ (located in Andong, Korea), established for the purpose of collecting and preserving traditional documentary heritage from the private sectors. In particular, he has been working to promote the inscription of UNESCO MoW registers and to share the value of documentary heritage. He was responsible for inscription of on the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia-Pacific (MOWCAP) registers at the MOWCAP General Meeting held in Gwangju in 2018. He is the secretary-general of the Korea Memory of the World Knowledge Center (KMoW-KC, 2018-2019), and the secretary-general of the International Association for Printing Woodblocks (IAPW, 2017-2019). He played a leading role in establishing a consultative body for MoW Conservation Organizations in Korea. From 2019 to 2021, he served as an expert member of the World Heritage Division of the Cultural Heritage Committee at the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea.
Even now, he is studying the value of documentary heritage of Korean traditional documentary heritage and documents produced through various media, including video. Currently, he is working as a chief of Documentary Heritage Center at the Korean Studies Institute.

Lee is a department manager of the Senior journalist department of the MBC Newsroom. He recently completed a director of the social affairs department, economic and industrial editor, editorial editor, and editorialist. Lee has covered incidents, accidents, disaster coverage, and exploration coverage during his 30 years as a reporter. He participated in the production of many current affairs programs such as . Lee covered many disasters and accidents that are "the 2008 Sichuan earthquake," "The Battle of Yeonpyeong," and "The Battle of the Korean West Sea," and he obtained a master's degree with related paper in 2014.
He participated as an Asia-Pacific Fellow of DART CENTER, a course in the Columbia Journalism School 'Trauma and Journalism' in 2015. Since then, Lee has lectured on the theme of trauma at the disaster scene at many organizations, including the International Organization for Migration, the Korean Journalist Association, and the Korea Press Foundation. He produced a 'Journalism and Trauma' video containing the ethics and attitude of reporting at the disaster scene and how to reduce trauma together with the Korea Broadcast Journalist Association in 2017 for using it for journalist education. He is currently a member of the Central Disaster Broadcasting Council of the Republic of Korea. Lee also has been a judge of the Journalist Award of the Korea Broadcast Journalist Association for six years.
Most of the relatives, including his parents, were from Gwangju and suffered direct and indirect damage during the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising.

Lee graduated from Chonnam National University with a Bachelor of Economics, and he got Ph.D. in Business Administration at Chosun University. Lee acted member of the civilian army in Operation Center from Jeollanamdo Provincial Hall during the Gwangju Democratization Movement in May 1980. He was arrested in October 1980, and he was released in 1981 as a special amnesty given on 15 August. Lee is the author of 「Gwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age」(1985), which is a key role in spreading the truth of The May 18 Democratic Movement with Hwang Seokyong and Jeon Yongho. He edited 「The Kwangju Uprising」(M.E. Sharpe, 2000) which is the records of Foreign/Domestic correspondents and issued it with Henry Scott Stokes (New York Times Special Correspondent) in the U.S.

Mario Schmidt is an award-winning journalist specialized in Asian affairs. Like Jürgen Hinzpeter he works for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). NDR is part of ARD, the biggest public broadcaster in Germany. He was based as bureau chief for ARD in Tokyo from 2004 to 2010, where Hinzpeter had worked as a cameraman years before. As a correspondent Mario Schmidt reported from 30 countries and was a frequent visitor to South and North Korea for many years. He covered a wide range of social, political, and economic stories. As bureau chief of ARD in Beijing until 2019, he focused on China’s global political rise and its technical development in the field of artificial intelligence. Since his return to Germany, he worked for the influential ARD evening news magazine “Tagesthemen”. In his current position he is head of the regional TV news department “NDR Info” at Norddeutscher Rundfunk. He likes working in intercultural teams and likes to speak publicly about Asian topics. His job at NDR also includes special programs especially on federal and state elections, and he is driving cross-media strategies. He is also commentator on Asian Affairs at ARD-Tagesthemen.

Born in 1967 in Tokyo, Japan. He joined TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), one of the biggest television networks in Japan, in 1992. For the first several years as a news cameraman, he covered a series of historic incidents and disasters. His actions were not only limited to Japan, but also did he cover stories around the world, like the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Aum cult incidents, Peruvian hostage crisis, etc.
He was posted to the TBS New York Bureau in 1997 and when the 9/11 attacks happened in 2001, he filmed the World Trade Center collapsing right in front of his eyes. Then he was transferred to London Bureau. From 2005 to 2009, he travelled extensively across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In Kenya and Greenland, he produced short documentaries on environment issues. He also covered a story on conflict in Darfur, Sudan in 2007.
After he returned to Japan, he continued working as a news cameraman and producer, being “on-the-spot” when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong Island and the Libyan revolt against Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. In 2017, he became a chief editor of the three-hour long evening news program. Having extensive experience, both as a news cameraman and a producer, his expertise now lies in the role of a director of the Foreign News Department in TBS.

Tonya Hyungsil Park is an award-winning TV documentarist currently employed as an executive producer at Arirang TV, the leading global TV & radio network in Seoul, Korea. She has produced and directed many TV documentaries since her first program in 2005, which covered the Israel–Palestine conflict through their parallel history and opinions towards peace in the region. Her debut documentary integrated South Korean perspectives on the conflict zone, focusing particularly on issues of peace, revenge, and reconciliation.

Sharon Roobol has more than 25 years’ experience in the television industry, working for several Australian television broadcasters in Australia and London and joining the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia bureau of the global news network Al Jazeera English in 2006. As the Executive Producer of Al Jazeera’s award-winning investigative programme, 101 East, Sharon has produced more than 400 long-form films from across Asia.
In that time, the programme has won scores of prestigious international awards including the Royal Television Society award, several Walkleys, 3 Emmy Nominations, Overseas Press Club Awards, Venice TV Award, Drum Online Media Awards, New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards, The Wincott Award, Telly Awards, Amnesty International Media Awards, a Peabody nomination, Human Rights Press Awards, the World Media Summit Award and Asian Television Awards.
With press freedom under increasing threat across large parts of Asia, Sharon is keen on uncovering untold stories, giving voice to the voiceless and holding the powerful to account.

Tae-kyoung Suh, A journalist for 35 years, has been in the front line of news as he captured brutality of war-torn countries, joyful scenes of Olympics and covering variety of social issues by investigative journalism. He graduated Journalism department of Hanyang University in 1984 and joined Munhwa broadcast corporation as a journalist that year. It was a period which the press was controlled by the military dictator regime, so he joined the MBC press union to fight for media freedom. In 1991 during the Gulf War I, he remained on the stricken field and covered the news while the NATO were air striking on Baghdad. He won the Choi Byoung Woo International Press Award for this coverage. During his time as a correspondent in Paris (1998-2001), he covered the Kosovo civil war and the devastating Izmit Turkey earthquake. Afterwards he worked on investigative documentaries like ‘Camera Dispatch’, ‘Current Affairs Magazine 2580’ and ‘Straight’ In 2004 as a manager of news department, he contributed to the modernization of broadcasting system such as RAW archive and video transmission system. After finishing his position as a deputy director of the camera division, he came back to investigative documentaries again until he finished his career as a journalist.

Tim Shorrock is a Washington-based journalist who specializes in investigative reporting with a focus on East Asia and US national security issues. He is the author of the 2008 book Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. His writings have appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, and between 1983 and 2021 was a correspondent for The Nation, one of America’s oldest political magazines. Shorrock grew up in Japan and South Korea, where his parents worked as Christian relief workers after World War II and the Korean War.
He is well-known in Korea for revealing, in 1996, the secret background role played by the Carter administration in the Korean military’s suppression of the Gwangju Citizens Uprising in 1980. In 2015, he was named an honorary citizen of the city of Gwangju in recognition of his stories about the 1980 uprising. The original copies of his declassified US government documents that formed that basis of his 1996 stories are now stored and are available to researchers at the Gwangju 5.18 Archives.

Watai Takeharu has had a two-decade career in video journalism as an independent journalist. Watai specializes in covering conflicts in the Middle East and other parts of the world and has been reporting on the Iraq War since 2003. He has made numerous video reports and documentaries for television. Watai received the 2003 Vaughn-Ueda Awards Special Prize for outstanding international reporting. His previous film “Little Birds” , which portrays the lives of people in Iraq during the war, was awarded the Human Rights Prize in the Locarno International Film Festival 2005.

Ahmed Assar is the Reuters Television Editor for Asia and is based in Singapore. He joined Reuters in Cairo in 1994 as a television producer, just as Islamic militants were ramping up attacks on the Egyptian government. For 12 years he zig-zagged across the Middle East and North Africa covering everything from conflicts to peace talks to archaeological discoveries. Including Turkey's battle with the Kurds and the 1998-99 war in Kosovo.
A few months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Ahmed moved to Dubai to establish Reuters Television's first office in the Gulf region. It was a volatile time, covering al Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia, elections in Iran and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
In the summer of 2006, Ahmed led the Reuters TV team covering Israel 's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Later that year, Ahmed moved to Singapore to head the Asia TV desk and in 2008 he led the global TV team covering the Beijing Olympics. In 2011, Ahmed ran the award -winning Reuters TV operation covering the Egyptian revolution and the uprising against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Ahmed became Asia Editor Video in 2014, since then he has anchored several major stories across the region and beyond including, the disappearance & search of MH370, the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya, Trump- Kim Summits, Coronavirus pandemic & Myanmar Coup to name a few.

He is currently a professor of media communication at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies at Seoul, S. Korea. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in communications from the University of Texas at Austin. His main interests centers on citizens' communication rights and media democratization. Specifically, his research and teachings are being conducted focusing on institutionalization of communication rights, democratization of press, community media, global communication, and public diplomacy. In addition, he is currently the president of the “International Communication Research Group” (Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies), and the head of the “Center on Media Diplomacy” at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and co-representative of the "Citizens' Coalition for Democratic Media" a leading media civic group dedicated to media democracy in Korea.

Drew Ambrose is an international correspondent, video producer and investigative journalist who specializes in reporting from the Asia-Pacific. Since 2011 he has produced more than 100 documentaries in 40 nations for Al Jazeera English and has been the digital lead on many groundbreaking online projects. He has reported on the region’s biggest stories including the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Typhoon Haiyan, North Korean nuclear tensions, the Easter Sunday Bombings, Australia’s Black Saturday Bushfires and the Yogyakarta Earthquake. Ambrose has spearheaded complex investigations on dolphin hunting, secret torture centers, clergy abuse, pandemic medical waste dumping, deep sea mining, cyber-pedophilia, enforced disappearances, sex trafficking, migrant exploitation and indigenous incarceration. His reporting has won 40 the Wincott Award, the Venice TV Award, six New York Festival Gold Medals, three Overseas Press Club of America citations, three Walkley Awards, four Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards and the coveted "International Journalist of the Year" category of the One World Media Awards.

Juliana Ruhfus is an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker who divides her time between working in broadcast television and overseeing the work of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma (Europe), a project of Columbia Journalism School NY. As a reporter she is best known as the face of Al Jazeera English’s weekly, investigative and current affairs series “People & Power”. She joined the channel as part of the launch team and went on to report and directed well over fifty films and produced critically acclaimed interactive journalism projects. More recently she has worked as an executive producer for BBC World Service Investigations where she launched an investigative unit in India. She is a recipient of the Ochberg Fellowship and received a scholarship for Harvard’s global trauma programme.

Kyun Soo Kim is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Alabama, USA. His research interests include new communication technologies and journalism. His research has been published in peer-reviewed communication and interdisciplinary journals such as International Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behaviors, Asian Journal of Communication, Public Understanding of Science, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

Woochul was a former video journalist for a major public broadcaster MBC in South Korea. He covered diverse news events from politics, economics, social affairs, and culture at both a local and international level. Combined with his work experience in journalism, he has taught university students journalism and media production. After achieving MSc. in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he is currently researching the future of journalism, media activism, and digital culture at Simon Fraser University in Canada at the doctoral level.

Kim is a representative international conflict journalist from South Korea. Young-me started with SBS special documentary (Blue Angel in East Timor) in 2000. She dealt with the problem of Afghanistan's gender discrimination in KBS Sunday special (Afghan women who take off burqas) (2002). She reported Iraq War and Afghanistan War in SBS special documentary (Touch-and-go, Go to Iraq) (2003), MBC emergency reportage (Send Troops, Record of 100 Days, Zaytun Division) (2004), (Send troops in Iraq, That long way) (2004), etc.
Kim made a documentary in Japan NTV International department from 2002 to 2005. She also documented SBS (Daughters of Islam) (2005), (Reporting Somalia Dongwon-ho - Why does the homeland leave alone us?) (2006) broadcasting in MBC (PD Note), MBC special (Lebanon on fire) (2008), KBS Wednesday special (Iraq of U.S. military) (2008), trilogy documentary (Himalayas Coffee Road) about fair-trade broadcasting in EBS (Docuprime).
2007 ~ present: She is writing an article as Editor of Sisa IN International problem department. 2010 ~ present: As a Documentary Producer, she reported SBS March 1st Movement special (Resistance of Flower - Manse Movement of Kisaeng), SBS special (ISIS, Islamic combatant, and boys), SBS special documentary (Bread of Peace in East Timor), etc. Kim wrote famous books (Why does the world fight?), (Himalayas Coffee Road), (Person is Sick), (Peace School), etc. She worries about peace and troubled regions. She is currently reporting Myanmar Democratic Movement.

Kiyoharu has more than 25 years’ experience in TV news. He joined TBS NEWS in 1995 and in his early years he covered wide ranging topics with particular interest in outsider arts. After editing many of TBS’s new programs, he was assigned to foreign news desk and subsequently posted to London in 2010. During his tenure, he covered the fall of Mubarak regime in Egypt and turmoil that followed, the civil wars in Libya and Syria, two Gaza wars, the far-right terrorist attack in Norway, as well as conflict minerals in the DRC, drone factory in Israel and presidential election in Iran.
After 3 years serving as foreign news desk, Kiyoharu was re-posted to London in 2018, from where he filed numerous stories on Brexit and the COVID pandemic. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, he repeatedly went into the country and reported from many towns and cities across. He is now back in Japan and overseeing TBS’’s foreign news.
Kiyoharu has also made several documentaries and short films focusing on subjects like Jewish/Palestinian conflict, persecution of albinos in Zambia, the impact of climate change on Greenland, the risks of zoonosis in Ghana, or an elderly Japanese street performer.

Lee graduated from Chonnam National University with a Bachelor of Economics, and he got Ph.D. in Business Administration at Chosun University. Lee acted member of the civilian army in Operation Center from Jeollanamdo Provincial Hall during the Gwangju Democratization Movement in May 1980. He was arrested in October 1980, and he was released in 1981 as a special amnesty given on 15 August. Lee is the author of 「Gwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age」(1985), which is a key role in spreading the truth of The May 18 Democratic Movement with Hwang Seokyong and Jeon Yongho. He edited 「The Kwangju Uprising」(M.E. Sharpe, 2000) which is the records of Foreign/Domestic correspondents and issued it with Henry Scott Stokes (New York Times Special Correspondent) in the U.S.

Johoon Lee was born in 1973. For more 20 years, he produced documentaries on labor, social and historical issues. It has been tracking the hidden truth such as MBC <Current Affairs Magazine 2580> coverage PD, KBS <Current Affairs Tonight, The Live>, KBS <The World Now, The Live>, <Smart Consumer Report>, and <In Depth 60 Minutes> and so on. The documentary film <Black Deal> (2014) was announced, which deeply explored the policy of privatizing public goods. In 2018, <Land of Sorrow> accused the Park Chung-hee administration of state violence and human rights abuses, which had been buried for 57 years, and led the issue of compensation for victims to be included in the Past History Organization Act. As a Gwangju-born filmmaker who spent his childhood at the time of May 18th 1980, he directed <Gwangju Video: The Missing> (2020), which contains Gwangju's time through the closer and sober eyes of insiders, and the feature film <Songam-dong> is the second film about Gwangju.

Lee is a department manager of the Senior journalist department of the MBC Newsroom. He recently completed a director of the social affairs department, economic and industrial editor, editorial editor, and editorialist. Lee has covered incidents, accidents, disaster coverage, and exploration coverage during his 30 years as a reporter. He participated in the production of many current affairs programs such as . Lee covered many disasters and accidents that are "the 2008 Sichuan earthquake," "The Battle of Yeonpyeong," and "The Battle of the Korean West Sea," and he obtained a master's degree with related paper in 2014.
He participated as an Asia-Pacific Fellow of DART CENTER, a course in the Columbia Journalism School 'Trauma and Journalism' in 2015. Since then, Lee has lectured on the theme of trauma at the disaster scene at many organizations, including the International Organization for Migration, the Korean Journalist Association, and the Korea Press Foundation. He produced a 'Journalism and Trauma' video containing the ethics and attitude of reporting at the disaster scene and how to reduce trauma together with the Korea Broadcast Journalist Association in 2017 for using it for journalist education. He is currently a member of the Central Disaster Broadcasting Council of the Republic of Korea. Lee also has been a judge of the Journalist Award of the Korea Broadcast Journalist Association for six years.
Most of the relatives, including his parents, were from Gwangju and suffered direct and indirect damage during the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising.

He is an attorney at law in HAEMARU Law Firm. He handles cases related to war crimes and state violence. He has represented victims in cases of forced mobilization under Japanese occupation, civilian massacre by the South Korean military during the Vietnam War, and the Jeju 4-3 military tribunal retrial. He believes that the only way to prevent war and violence from repeating itself is for "facts" and "responsibility" to be recognized and remembered across borders and time.
He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University, specializing in the sociology of law. He is an adjunct professor of sociology at Yonsei University. He teaches sociology of law and criminology. He has been writing a column for <The Hankyoreh> since 2020. He is interested in finding ways to restore society in an era where law (judiciary) has become all-encompassing.
From 2019 to 2023, he was in charge of hosting and dubbing a weekly current affairs documentary program called 'Current Affairs Direct Hit' at KBS(Korean Broadcasting System). He participated in the production of a total of 168 documentaries, and hopes that his experience will be useful for this screening.

Mario Schmidt is an award-winning journalist specialized in Asian affairs. Like Jürgen Hinzpeter he works for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). NDR is part of ARD, the biggest public broadcaster in Germany. He was based as bureau chief for ARD in Tokyo from 2004 to 2010, where Hinzpeter had worked as a cameraman years before. As a correspondent Mario Schmidt reported from 30 countries and was a frequent visitor to South and North Korea for many years. He covered a wide range of social, political, and economic stories. As bureau chief of ARD in Beijing until 2019, he focused on China’s global political rise and its technical development in the field of artificial intelligence.
Since his return to Germany, he worked for the influential ARD evening news magazine “Tagesthemen”. In his current position he is head of the regional TV news department “NDR Info” at Norddeutscher Rundfunk. He likes working in intercultural teams and likes to speak publicly about Asian topics. His job at NDR also includes special programs especially on federal and state elections, and he is driving cross-media strategies. He is also commentator on Asian Affairs at ARD-Tagesthemen.

Tonya Hyungsil Park is an award-winning TV documentarist currently employed as an executive producer at Arirang TV, the leading global TV & radio network in Seoul, Korea. She has produced and directed many TV documentaries since her first program in 2005, which covered the Israel–Palestine conflict through their parallel history and opinions towards peace in the region. Her debut documentary integrated South Korean perspectives on the conflict zone, focusing particularly on issues of peace, revenge, and reconciliation.

Philip Cox has worked as a freelance video journalist covering areas of conflict for over twenty years. He is the winner of the Grand Prix Bayeux Calvados, The Rory Peck Award, the Grierson Award and a Hinzpeter Award. He works for broadcasters such as BBC, CNN, ITN, France2, Al-Jazeera, SVT, SBS Australia, VICE, NRT and Channel 4 News. His feature cinema work has premiered at Sundance, Berlin and Toronto and gone on to HBO, NETFLIX and AMAZON. Phil runs the freelance collective Native Voice Films out of London UK and is also a global safety trainer and advocator for the protection of journalists and media makers.

Dr. Shim worked as a staff reporter at SBS, one of the three network broadcasters in South Korea from 1991. After serving as a Director of Digital News and Vice President for News Headquarters, he left SBS and began teaching at Semyung University Graduate School of Journalism as a professor in 2020. His strong interest in journalism ethics comes from both long-time work experience and the educational background. After he graduated from the College of Law at Seoul National University, he received Master of Law and Ph.D. in Law degree from Sogang University. He also received LL.M. degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and passed the New York Bar Exam. His research and writing focus on journalism ethics that can provide practical standards for journalists.

Solan Kolli is an Ethiopian freelance video journalist with over ten years of experience. For the past eight years, he has been covering Ethiopia extensively for AFP, reporting on important and sensitive issues in the country. His videos are regularly seen on the BBC, CNN, France 24, Al Jazeera, and other major international media outlets.
Winner of the 2021 Rory Peck award in the News category for 'The Cost of War.'
The Rory Peck Award jury praised his video coverage as "a powerful and candid approach to what was happening in Tigray," even though the conflict "did not receive sufficient coverage" by the media. "His work was bold and courageous (...), bringing the conflict into the spotlight despite its remoteness."

Tae-kyoung Suh, A journalist for 35 years, has been in the front line of news as he captured brutality of war-torn countries, joyful scenes of Olympics and covering variety of social issues by investigative journalism. He graduated Journalism department of Hanyang University in 1984 and joined Munhwa broadcast corporation as a journalist that year. It was a period which the press was controlled by the military dictator regime, so he joined the MBC press union to fight for media freedom. In 1991 during the Gulf War I, he remained on the stricken field and covered the news while the NATO were air striking on Baghdad. He won the Choi Byoung Woo International Press Award for this coverage.
During his time as a correspondent in Paris (1998-2001), he covered the Kosovo civil war and the devastating Izmit Turkey earthquake. Afterwards he worked on investigative documentaries like ‘Camera Dispatch’, ‘Current Affairs Magazine 2580’ and ‘Straight’ In 2004 as a manager of news department, he contributed to the modernization of broadcasting system such as RAW archive and video transmission system. After finishing his position as a deputy director of the camera division, he came back to investigative documentaries again until he finished his career as a journalist.