Korea’s daily newspaper Gyeongnam Maeil & Asian Community News (ACN) collaborate, sign MoU

SEOUL/NEW DELHI: India-based media house Asian Community News Network (ACN Network) has joined hands with South Korea’s well known national daily newspaper Gyeongnam Maeil to collaborate in the field of news-media exchange, and also to carry out other related activities. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the two sides in at the office of Gyeongnamaeil in Gyeongsangnam-do in South Korea recently.

Ryu Han-yeol, Editor-in-Chief, signed the MoU on behalf of Gyeongnam Maeil Newspaper Co. Limited, and Ms. Lee Hyunsook (Helen Lee), Editor-in-Charge (Korea), represented ACN Network and Chairperson, KIBO (Korea India Business Organisation) to sign the memorandum on February 18 in the presence of Jeong Chang-hoon, President (Publisher & Editor) of Gyeongnam Maeil. Later Sanjeev K Ahuja, Founding Editor-in-Chief & CEO of ACN Network also signed the MoU documents at the ACN Network office in Gurugram, Delhi NCR on March 3 during the visit of Helen Lee.

In operation for about 24 years Korea, the Gyeongnmaeil publishes 16-page newspaper, and operates in 18 cities and counties in Gyeongnam Province to report on the news. Immensely popular with the East Asian expatriate communities in India for the last five years, the Asian Community News Network (ACN Network), caters to multiple Asian communities, especially the Koreans, Japanese, and Taiwanese as well as ASEAN, and reports bilateral matters related to art, cultural, language, lifestyle diplomatic relations, public policy, and trade, commerce & industry. ACN Network operates a news website (www.asiancommunitynews.com), publishes a monthly news magazine and also conducts Indo-east Asian events such as seminars, webinars and golf tournaments and networking events to promote bilateral ties between India and East Asian countries.

While congratulating the signing of the MOU between ACN and Gyungnan Maeil, Jung Chang-hoon, CEO of Gyungnam Maeil, said, “I would like to thank Mr. Sanjeev K. Ahuja, president of ACN and Mrs. Helen Lee president KIBO for your hard work in creating relationship and signing agreements. Gyungnam Maeil which is doing its best to play the role of multicultural communication in Korea, will do its best to become a civilian platform for Asians with ACN.”

Gyeongnam province is one of the nine provinces of the Republic of Korea such as Chungbuk, Chungnam, Gangwon, Gyeongbuk, Gyeonggi, Jeju, Jeollabuk, and Jeollanam. With Changwon being its capital city, Gyeongnam is home to roughly 3.5 million people. Busan and Ulsan, two of Korea’s most populated cities can be found along the provinces coastline.

PARK Euy Don, Advisor, Gyeongnam Governor for India Cooperation, said that the tie up between Gyeongnamaeil  and ACN Network would go a long way in strengthening bond between the two nations Korea and India. With this tie up, the people of India would get to know more about Gyeongnam and its roots connected with India, especially the Gimhae region where Indian princess Suriratna visited 2000 years before and married to the then Gaya King Kin Suro and became Queen Heo Hwang Ok,” PARK added.

About Gyeongnamaeil:  

Gyeongnamaeil was founded on April 10, 1999, and has been striving for the right to know of Gyeongsangnam-do residents and newspaper readers. Gyeongnammaeil opened YouTube Gyeongnammaeil TV channel on September 17th, 2019 to meet readers’ various information needs in the digital information era. It also publishes K-Multicultural Newspaper as its sister paper since July 14th, 2022, and deals with multicultural events, education, expert voices, and planning articles.

Gyeongnammaeil has been running for protecting the rights and interests of the underprivileged and the provincial people with the strong pen. In particular, it has relentlessly criticized the wrong administrative and political actions of local governmental office and local politicians, and made the right thing known and become a leader of local newspaper companies

Gyeongnmaeil sends reporters to local areas of 18 cities and counties in Gyeongnam Province to report on the news. By publishing 16-page paper newspapers five days a week, we are still making every effort to make it fun for readers to read the news, and strengthen the Internet newspapers to make sure that there are no gaps in the breaking news and accuracy of information.

Gyeongnammaeil will resolve various conflicts in civil society, present the right direction, and take the lead in realizing a happy welfare society for all the people of Gyeongnam.

About Asian Community News Network

Founded by Sanjeev K Ahuja – a media & communication professional and journalist-turned-media entrepreneur with over 25 years of hard core journalism experience of working with mainstream media publications such as the Hindustan Times in leadership roles, the Asian Community News Network is the only such media service that caters to multiple Asian communities, especially from South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan and other ASEAN.

It operates in online (real-time news portal) and offline (monthly print magazine) modes. “Our online news portal www.asiancommunitynews.com publishes a plethora of exclusive and worthy news articles on a daily basis. Quite often, many national mass-media publications such as Financial Express (https://bit.ly/3HTpL1G ), Mint of Hindustan Times Group (https://bit.ly/3v5TFrJ ), etc, use our reports for their news articles. This speaks volumes of ACN’s credibility in the media world, as well as among the Asian community,” said Sanjeev K Ahuja.

ACN Network also  works closely with the embassies of the Republic of Korea and Japan in India, and organises and supports many events as Media Partner. Last year, it organised 50th Anniversary India Korea Friednship Golf Cup to commemorate the year 2023 as the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Korea. In 2022, it organised 70th Anniversary Indian Japan Golf Cup to celebrate the completion of 70 years of diplomatic relation between India and Japan.

In November last year, the Korean government’s trade promotion agency KOTRA invited ACN Network to cover Invest Korea Summit held in Busan.

A member of Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia (FCC), and International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), the fpunder Sanjeev K Ahuja is also Vice President (Asia) of Media Federation of India (MFI) and National Vice-President of Web Journalists Association of India (WJAI). The WJAI is a Web Journalists’ Standards Authority (WJSA) of news publishers registered as a Self-Regulatory Body (SRB) by the Union Information & Broadcasting Ministry of India under the provisions of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Codes) Rules 2021. The WJAI comprises High Court Justice (Retd.), Senior Journalists, Bureaucrats and Educationists

Sanjeev K Ahuja actively moves with the Korean and Japanese business fraternity and communities. He is a Governing Board Member, India Republic of Korea Friendship Society (IRKFS); Advisor, Indian Students & Researchers in Korea (ISRK), Seoul; Member, Writing & Editing Committee for writing a book on 70 Years of Korean History in India – a project of the Korean Overseas Foundation, Korean Government, and Head, Government Affairs, Konnichiwa Japan Club (KJC). He also advises KIBO.

ACN Network has also founded an ACN Editorial Advisory Board – an advocacy platform for strengthening the bilateral relations between Asian nations and India on all fronts i.e. art, culture, language, education, people-to-people exchanges, diplomatic relations, and trade, and commerce & industry. This board has the representation of top dignitaries from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and India.