Speaker
CHUN Su-jin
Affliation
JoongAng Ilbo(Daily)
Title
Senior Staff Reporter
Session
South Korea’s Foreign Strategy of “Global Pivotal State”

Biography

Chun Su-jin is a news reporter specializing in North Korea, diplomacy and interviews. Su-jin started her career at the English-language Korea JoongAng Daily and have been with the Korean-language sister paper, JoongAng Ilbo. A number of historic events that she has covered include the U.S.-North Korea summit talks in Singapore and Hanoi, and the inter-Korean summit in Panmunjom. Based on these experiences, she published a book titled \'North Korean Women in Power\' in English in 2022. She worked as correspondents for the Foreign Ministry, Unification Ministry and the Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential office under Roh Moo-hyun. She has interviewed the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, now-late IOC President Jacques Rogge, to name a few. As a proud graduate of Korea University, she holds two master\'s degrees from Yonsei University(journalism) and Sogang University(North Korean politics).