Juwon Park Email & Phone Number

Seoul, South Korea

I produce and direct coverage of entertainment news and events in Asia, drawing on staff resources and freelancers to build strong coverage in all formats.

Hong Kong Sar / Seoul, South Korea

Wrote stories about South Korean politics and social issues including an exclusive story about a popular Korean app outsourcing academic fraud

Singapore

• Planned, facilitated and managed USD $700K news production for Trump-Kim summit resulting in #1 TV viewership in the nation; worked directly with the CEO/lead anchor Sohn Suk-hee, the most well-known news figure in South Korea • Coordinated and managed communications and business deals with various stakeholders including local production houses, government agencies and hotels

Seoul, South Korea

• Shaped the new business section in terms of identifying, outlining and shaping its target audience, style of writing, and topics• Wrote in-depth features on trending business topics in South Korea • Wrote daily spot news with focus on South Korea’s tech giants and start-ups• Appeared as a commentator for BBC and PRI

Singapore

• Produced a weekly business show Money Mind, the longest running Eng-language business program in Mediacorp, Singapore's national broadcaster• Covered all things money - quarterly business and finance outlook, local property market, tech and start-ups in the region, government fiscal and tech policies, etc. • Wrote articles and produced online video stories for CNA Insider

Hong Kong

• Engaged in a turnaround strategy project for APAC Google Adwords social media marketing, worked closely with Tokyo on problem identification, competitor analysis and contents strategy • Worked with internal APAC teams to re-design customer story write-up by identifying and aligning respective editorial flow and KPIs; New flow more than doubled the internal story submissions • Started “Humans of Google” and interviewed Googlers in six APAC offices - the project was later implemented at the Mountain View HQ

Korea

• Worked closely with market analysts to write daily Bloomberg First Word (BFW) and spot news items on MSCI Asia Pacific Index/ KOSPI Index movers- covered industries range from automobile, hospitality, cosmetics, casino, construction, oil, securities to conglomerates in South Korea • Initiated in-depth research on South Korea spy agency and salvaging of Ferry Sewol by procuring confidential information from Senators, victims’ families, 21 global salvaging companies around the world and relevant parties involved; new findings contributed to the articles on the first anniversary of Ferry Sewol disaster• Translated and fact-checked sources

Produced Asia entertainment news packages for AP Television News (APTN) - duties include researching, filming and editing events and interviews, and writing shotlist and video scripts• Pioneered the K-pop coverage for the Associated Press by building contacts with Korean entertainment companies and covering major K-pop events around the region • Interviewed A-listers including K-pop superstars CL and G-Dragon • Produced video news packages about Hong Kong and Chinese celebrities including Hong Kong superstar Aaron Kwok, Chow Yun-fat, Carina Lau, etc. • Produced daily spot news packages on Hong Kong entertainment industry events like HKIFF, luxury store opening, movie and concert presser, etc. • Produced news packages on breaking news including South Korea's Ferry Sewol crash and the death of Run Run Shaw, a media mogul