Currently a senior staff writer for the Hankyoreh, Park Kyung-man joined the company in 1993 and has served as the head of its editing team. This year marked his eighth year as a correspondent for the North Gyeonggi Province region as part of the greater Seoul news team. A resident of Goyang in Gyeonggi Province for over 20 years, Park has been interested in and reported on potential peaceful uses for the Han and Imjin River estuaries (waters shared by South and North Korea), as well as issues related to life, the environment, and unification. A graduate of the Sogang University Graduate School of Mass Communication, he taught courses in newspaper editing and local coverage for over ten years in the Department of Communications at Sogang University. He has been awarded the Journalists’ Association of Korea Prize for his coverage of the alleged murder of democracy activist Chang Chun-ha by the Park Chung-hee military dictatorship.