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The Masters of Science Journalism (MSJ) program at the Graduate School of Future Strategy, KAIST, hosted a conference and presented its fourth annual Moon-Sul Chung Award to the Hankyoreh newspaper at KAIST’s Seoul campus on October 11, 2014.
MSJ organized the conference to review major issues reported in the Korean news in the context of the sciences, for example, how the Korean media covered the tragic accident of the Sewol Ferry, a passenger ship that capsized and eventually sank with hundreds of passengers on board in the waters off the southern coast of Korea on April 16, 2014. Participants of the conference discussed the approaches taken by the media to report science-related issues such as mechanical problems of the ship and technical errors made by the operator.
MSJ conferred its annual award to a Hankyoreh news team which covered the Sewol incident. The award is named for Moon-Sul Chung, a philanthropist who created a scholarship fund for the school in 2011 to recognize news organizations that have striven to report social issues in a fair and balanced manner.
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