This session will forecast economic and political tasks facing President Park Geun-hye’s newly launched
administration and provide solutions via the views of foreign correspondents in Korea. Foreign correspondents in Korea are important due to their ability to observe, analyze, and predict social issues in Korea with diverse, objective, and outside perspectives, in ways that Korean domestic correspondents cannot. Additionally, news articles from participants provide important insights that can give the most realistic and first-hand data which can help the administration make more informed diplomatic policy. Hence, the Session’s discussion contents can be a reliable source that can forecast foreign responses in advance about possible emerging issues or problems that could emerge in the Park administration. Again, the viewpoints and reactions of foreign correspondents can help the administration predict the reactions and responses of foreign countries regarding such issues and problems.

- Moderator
NAM, Jeongho (Director, Global Affairs Team, JoongAng Ilbo)

- Speakers
Steven L. HERMAN (Northeast Asia Bureau Chief/Correspondent-Seoul, Voice of America)
CHEN, Chenchen (Director of Op-Ed Department, Global Times)

- Discussants
Gideon RACHMAN (Senior Columnist, The Financial Times)
UCHIYAMA, Kiyoyuki (Seoul Bureau Chief, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei))
Andrew SALMON (Correspondent-Seoul, Washington Times)

- Q&A and Rapporteur
CHUN, Young Sun (Reporter, JoongAng Ilbo International News Desk)