RHEE Jong Kook is the Executive Vice President at the Korea Foundation and Executive Director of the Korea–Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat. He directed the News Center, managing global news content at Arirang TV and he led content strategy and multimedia innovation for over a decade at NAVER. He was also journalist at YTN for 13 years, covering international affairs, and began his career as a simultaneous interpreter at MBC. Mr. RHEE holds an M.A. in Korean-English Interpretation and Translation from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and a B.A. in German Language and Literature from Yonsei University.