AJA Family Meet in Korea after JAK

Story and photos by Chhay Sophal
Cambodia News

Inchon, South Korea (March 11, 2018): Members from different nations of the Asian Journalists Association (AJA) on Sunday met here in Inchon to update their current media situations by presenting each ‘Country Report’.

Speaking in his welcoming remarks, Lee Sang-ki – the Founding President of AJA — said it is a good time for AJA family to meet for strengthening and solidarity among AJA country members.

During their meeting in Korea, about 20 members representing 15 countries, including Cambodia, are sharing their media situation with their AJA members and voice to the world what journalists are facing.

They also focused on the Korea unification by visiting Unification Korea Association and touring other places during their stay two days in Seoul.

Several participants, including Cambodian, expressed their concerns over ‘Citizen Journalists’ who have been arrested and jailed due to their unprofessional and unethical reporting or even their fake news positing on social media, especially Facebook.

Citizen Journalists must be well trained on accurate and ethical reporting, not reporting based on their sensationalism or even rumour without fact, a few participants raised.

The meeting is made immediately after 70 journalists from 50 countries, including 2 from Cambodia’s Club of Cambodian Journalists, gathered in Korea this week for the 6-day World Journalists Conference hosted by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) to talk about the press role in “Denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula and Word Peace”.

During their stay in Seoul for two days, the journalists  from Cambodia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Mongolia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sudan, Syria, Singapore, and Vietnam visited Unification Foundation, SK Telecom and Sumsung Cooperation .