Korea Times head elected to lead FNA

Oh Young-jin, the president-publisher of The Korea Times, has been named the seventh chairman of the Foreign Language Newspapers Association of Korea (FNA).

The association announced his election at its meeting of executive directors, Friday.

Oh will lead the group for a year.

Established in July 2015, the FNA carries out joint research and projects for the development of foreign-language newspapers here. Its members are The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, The Korea JoongAng Daily and The Aju Daily, which is Aju Business Daily's Chinese edition.

Since joining The Korea Times in 1988, Oh has worked at various desks covering politics, business and social issues as both a reporter and an editor. He served as the managing editor from 2012 to 2015 before becoming a chief editorial writer, then the digital managing editor and the director of content and digitization. He was named president-publisher in April 2020.