Seminar & Forum Secretary-General YANG Houlan Delivered Presentation at the Seoul Foreign Correspondent Club 60th Anniversary 2016.12.07
On December 7, Secretary-General YANG Houlan attended ‘the Seminar for celebrating Seoul Foreign Correspondent Club (SFCC) 60th Anniversary’ which was held in Korea Press Center. The seminar was organized by Korea Press Foundation and SFCC and the overall agenda was ‘Northeast Asia Outlook for 2017’. SG YANG invited as a presenter and delivered speech on ‘Cooperation in the Northeast Asia’.

SG YANG emphasized the importance of accumulated efforts on trilateral cooperation and substantial outcome of these which can be the basement for the further progress on regional cooperation. Also, he recognized the unprecedented challenges and variabilities after the Brexit Referendum and the election of Donald Trump, however, expressed his confidence that the three countries can transcendentalize the challenges into extra-ordinary opportunities based on close cooperation with each other. 

On the following discussion session, experienced journalists including Mr. YONEMURA Koichi, Bureau chief of Mainichi Newspaper, Ms. ZHOU Yu Bo, Bureau chief of People’s Daily Online, Mr. PARK Young-rule, Senior Reporter of Hankyoreh Shimbun, Mr. YOO Seok-jo, International News Director of KBS, and Mr. AHN Yong Hyun, Deputy Editor of Political Desk of Chosun-Ilbo made constructive comments and suggestions for trilateral cooperation and TCS such as C-J-K Journalist Joint Declaration on Trilateral Cooperation and Annual Media Conference on Trilateral Cooperation.

Group Photo of 2nd Session 
Presentation by SG YANG