[COVID-19 Special] Covering the Coronavirus Crisis in Korea
VIEW EVENT DETAILSAbout the Guest Speakers
Andrew Salmon
Seoul-based Englishman Andrew Salmon holds a BA in History and Comparative Literature from the University of Kent and an MA in Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
A resident of Seoul since 1998, he is Asia Times' Northeast Asia editor. His work has also appeared in the BBC, CNN, Forbes, France24, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times.
His books on the Korean War have garnered a "Korea Wave" award from South Korea's National Assembly and a "Member of the British Empire" award from Queen Elizabeth II.
Peter Pae
Peter Pae has been in charge of Bloomberg News as Seoul Bureau Chief since July, 2015. Before that, he worked as assistant business/technology editor and aerospace/defense writer at Los Angeles Times and staff writer at The Washington Post. He took a Bachelor’s Degree in American History from the University of California, Los Angeles.
About the Moderator
Michael Breen
Michael Breen (born 31 July 1952) is an English author, consultant and journalist covering North and South Korea. Breen writes occasional opinion columns for international and South Korean media. Since 2000, he has written a featured column for The Korea Times, an English-language daily in South Korea, where he comments on Korean society, culture, and political issues. Breen is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and first began living in South Korea in 1982. He was the correspondent in Korea for The Guardian and the Washington Times. In 1987, he became the first non-Korean president of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club. In 1994, he became a management consultant specializing in North Korea, with clients such as Coca-Cola. He entered the public relations field in 1999 as the managing director of Merit/Burson-Marsteller, where he remained until 2004. He is the founder and CEO of Insight Communications Consultants, a Seoul-based public relations firm. Breen was made an honorary citizen of Seoul in 2001.