As the PyeongChang Olympics approach, we are seeing a dramatic increase in demand for fixers and stringers. If you are looking looking to hire a fixer in Korea, we can distribute your jobs listing to our community of local journalists and provide guidance on appropriate pay levels. If you are a local journalist …
Looking for Olympics fixers? A message from AAJA’s Seoul subchapter Read More »
Otto Warmbier may have suffered a panic disorder, says former N.K. prisoner Kenneth Bae
If you went to N3Con 2017 in Hong Kong last month, you probably left feeling educated, energized and with a lot of new friends in the media industry. It takes a lot of work to pull off a conference like that, and we want next year’s to be even better. The N3Con planning …
Last week Saturday, AAJA-Asia members in Seoul sat with four distinguished media professionals on topics that have become a contested issue during the unfolding of the latest political scandal that toppled the South Korean president – ethics and journalism in South Korea. The Seoul subchapter of AAJA-Asia jointly organized the event with Korea Exposé …
AAJA Asia Seoul subchapter organizes ethics panel event for Journalists Read More »
Hello, AAJA members November seems to be the right time for changes. Changes in Korea’s political and media landscape rocked by mounting corruption allegations. Changes in the Seoul sub-chapter for all good reasons. As Seoul has grown into the biggest sub-chapter in Asia, we have decided to elect new officers for the term …
AAJA Seoul has started its mixer event from September and this will be for Journalists to network with other Journalists in Seoul. The sub-chapter invites all AAJA-ers to come out and have some quality time together. At the event, the group has done some fun facts guessing game for participants to know more about each other. …
The Seoul Chapter of the Asian American Journalist Association is looking for volunteers of the sixth annual New. Now. Next Media Conference (N3 Con) to be held from May 27th to 29th. Some 300 journalists across Asia, including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing and the United States will participate in the conference, which will be …
The AAJA-Asia board is happy to announce member Sean Lim has been awarded a $1,200 tuition stipend to attend AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program at City University of New York (CUNY). Sean is a freelance journalist in Seoul. He works at KBS, where he is an editor for the KBS World News TV division, on-air host …
AAJA Seoul invites its members and friends to hiking with Choe Sang-hun, The New York Times’s Seoul bureau chief and winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. We will walk the Seoul City Wall of Bugaksan, mountain surounding the Blue House. Choe began his journalism career as a political reporter at The Korea …
AAJA Hiking with Pulitzer Prize Winning NYT Reporter Choe Sang-hun Read More »
Good bye, dear friends and AAJA members Steve Miller & John Power! Steve Miller will leave the country for his new job at VOA in Washington and John Power will also be out of the country for at least a year for his new adventure in Australia. Both will leave Korea at the end of …