Asia Journalist Association (AJA) held the 'Um Hong-Gil and Oh Eun-Sun's Mountain Story,' providing participants with rare chances to hear from the nation's top mountaineers. The program has been designed to encourage challengers of every condition who cherish the meaning and happiness of life of "challenge" rather than their own aggrandizement. This has helped especially young people to have creative dreams and carve out their future.

Ko Myung-jin, director of wire news provider Newsis, held a ceremony for the publication of his book "That day, that street rewritten" at Kwanhun Club in Seoul on June 25.
The event attracted some 100 guests from various sectors of the society including Culture, Sports, and Tourism Minister Yoo In-chon; Ahn Byung-chan, president of Center for Media Responsibility and Human Rights; Newsis CEO Shin Sang-seok and Lee Sang-ki, founding president of Asia Journalist Association etc.

My name is Irina Park and I am twenty one years old. I am the 3rd generation of Koreans who were born in Kazakhstan. Currently I am studying in Seoul National University majoring in business administration.
Last weekend I had a great opportunity to go to Korean traditional festival "Dano" in Gangneung, Gangwondo province with members of Asia Journalist Association and its associates. It was really such a great time with amazing people there.
First of all we visited a museum, watch awesome Korean traditional performances and the festival itself. And we could experience Korean traditional tea tasting and other wonderful traditional ceremonies and performances.

Last weekend I participated in the "Danoje" experience program arranged by the Committee for the Gangneung Danoje Festival. The Gangneung Danoje is a folklore ritual that has transcended this city in Gangwon Province for more than a thousand years. Thanks to its time-honored worth, it was designated as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2005.The Gangneung Danoje, not only the longest in history but also maybe the biggest in scale among all regional festivals in Korea, has been held around Dano, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (June 16 on solar calendar this year). I saw many people from all over the country gather in this beautiful east coast city to enjoy the festival.

Some 30 members and associates of the Asia Journalists Association took part in the Gangneung Danoje Festival June 12-13 for a personal experience and profound understanding of the Korean traditional culture unique in the eastern coastal area of the nation. In addition to domestic and foreign journalists, the tour attracted dozens of representatives of foreign students studying in Seoul National University and Kookmin University who come from seven different countries ? China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan, providing them with precious chances to get acquainted with the nation's traditional culture. The tour proceeded in a very friendly and cozy atmosphere and picked up more impetus, boosted by Korea's 2-0 win in the World Cup match against Greece the night June 12. AJA members watched the bout in a hotel pub while enjoying beer together. The Festival was designated as Korean Intangible Cultural Property No. 13 in 1967 and as a UNESCO "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" in 2005. The Asia Dano Festival, lasting until June 19, is featuring performances and exhibitions for the exchange of Dano cultures from different Asian nations like China and Japan, in particular.

Most Korean newspapers in China are suffering from a worsening managerial hardship due mainly to rapidly changing environment and lack of assistance from the government. Experts cite the need for the Korean government and mass media alongside their Chinese counterparts to turn eyes to the newspapers now struggling in Northeast China area in order to prevent keep the Korean language from being naturalized with China amid a whirlpool of change.
Choi Ho, 46, CEO of the East North Science & Tech Daily published in Yanji, Jilin recently visited the Asia Journalist Association (AJA) to call for further interest and assistance for the paper. "The paper's circulation which surpassed 50,000 pieces a few years ago, dwindled to 5,000 up until recently," he said in an interview with AJA.

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