Korea Times Reporters Win Journalist Award
Two reporters of The Korea Times won an award from the Journalist Association of Korea and the Korea Press Foundation. Yoon Won-sup at the political desk and Kang Shin-who at the city desk have been named as the winners of the ``209th Journalist of the Month,’’ the association announced Friday.
Their articles, first published on January 21, dealt with regulations governing the Ministry of Justice’s English teaching or E-2 visa that restricts the grant of the visa to only citizens from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa. Many Asian nations that have English as an official language have balked at the rules and the two reporters first reported on the issue through a series of in-depth articles.
As a result, the Korea Immigration Service came to admit the unfair factors of the regulations on E-2 visa. The newspaper was also the first to report on the immigration authority’s plan to revise the rules.