Yonhap journalist tapped as next OANA secretary general

SEOUL, Jan 30, 2019, Yonhap. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said Wednesday that it has named its veteran journalist Lee Dong-min as the next secretary general of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), reported the Yonhap.

Lee, a senior reporter at Yonhap’s English-language economic news desk, will start her three-year stint in November when Yonhap takes over the OANA chairmanship from the current chair, Azertac, the state news agency of Azerbaijan, at the OANA general assembly in Seoul.

Lee worked as a Yonhap correspondent in Washington and served as the head of the English-language general and economic news desks and foreign-language news department.

Lee will fine-tune opinions among OANA member agencies and coordinate OANA general and executive meetings.

At present, OANA has 44 member news agencies in 35 Asia-Pacific nations, including Xinhua of China, Kyodo of Japan, Tass of Russia, VNA of Vietnam, Bernama of Malaysia and KCNA of North Korea.