Kim Rahn is the managing editor of The Korea Times. Since joining the company in 2003, she has covered various beats including the presidential office, Seoul city government, the Bank of Korea and the tourism industry. In 2014, she won the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for her coverage of the ordeals of migrant women in Korea.
Chang renamed Hankook Ilbo chairman
Lee named Seoul Economic Daily president
By Kim Rahn
The Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times, reappointed Chang Jae-ku as its chairman at an annual shareholders and board of directors meeting in Seoul, Monday.
The Korea Times USA Chairman Chang Jae-min and President Jun Seong-hwan were also re-elected as directors of the Hankook ilbo.
The Seoul Economic Daily, another sister paper, named Vice President Lee Jong-whan as president-publisher, and former President Lee Jong-seoung, Chief Editorial Writer Park Shi-ryong, and Managing Editor Kim In-young as directors.
SEN-TV, a cable TV channel run by the economic daily, appointed the daily’s former Vice President Choi Kwan-yee as president, and re-named President-Publisher Lee as director. General affairs bureau chief Noh Seung-kwan was named auditor.