Senior reporter Hwang Dae-il nominated new CEO of Yonhap Information Company

Hwang Dae-il, a senior reporter for Yonhap Information Company, Korea’s key newswire, was nominated Thursday as the corporate’s new CEO and president.

Hwang was chosen from three candidates throughout a unprecedented board assembly of the Korea Information Company Fee, a physique overseeing Yonhap’s administration.

The opposite two candidates had been Choo Seung-ho, editor-in-chief of Yonhap Information TV, and Tschoe Ki-eok, president and CEO of Yonhap Infomax.

Hwang will start his three-year time period after being appointed throughout a Yonhap common shareholders’ assembly on Oct. 10.

The incoming CEO majored in public administration at Korea College and joined Yonhap Information Company as a reporter in 1990.

Throughout his time at Yonhap, he labored as a correspondent in Jakarta, and headed varied departments, together with the finance and economic system departments, earlier than serving as editor of the nationwide and social departments and chief of content material.

In his manifesto submitted to the fee, Hwang vowed to assist Yonhap grow to be Asia’s No. 1 information company by following an “A1+F4” technique, which requires equipping with synthetic intelligence and being the “first” to reach at a information web site, the “quickest” to report, primarily based on “information” and in a “truthful” method.

To strengthen Yonhap’s public function, Hwang pledged to help the association of reunions between members of the family separated by the 1950-53 Korean Struggle, and launch Vietnamese and Thai companies so as to add to the six international language companies presently in operation.

Moreover, the nominee vowed to create a fact-checking division, replace the ethics constitution and reporting tips to enhance goal and balanced reporting, and pull the corporate out of its present deficit by rapidly restoring authorities subscriptions and discovering new sources of incomes. (Yonhap)