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Susan Faludi Kim Sung-ryung Kim So-young Kim Eana Kim Je-dong
Kim hyung-suk Moon So-ri Park Hyung-jun Byun Hye-jung Uhm Jung-hwa
Woo Suk-hoon Won Dong-yeon Yu jeong-im Lee Ki-sang Lee Hee-hee
Lee Jung-jin Lee Joon-suk Lim Sun-young Cho Hye-jung
  • Susan Faludi

    Susan Faludi is an American journalist whose work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In 1991 she has won a Pulitzer Prize for her report on the leveraged buyout and layoffs at Safeway, a large supermarket chain in the US. Her first book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991) is a contemporary bestseller that captures the sudden wave of anti-feminism sweeping through the Reagan presidency in the 1980s, and analyzes the patterns of historical counterattacks toward women’s movements throughout the first half of the 20th century. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction as soon as it was published, and the Korean translation was finally published last December. Korean society is now wrestling with a range of issues raised by feminism, which began with a murder near Gangnam Subway Station in May 2016 and the Me Too Movement triggered by prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun’s revelation of sexual harassment in 2018. Significantly, the situation in 21st-century Korea very much resembles the US in the 1980s observed by Susan Faludi.
  • Kim Sung-ryung

    Actress Kim Sung-ryung was originally the winner of the 32nd Miss Korea beauty pageant in 1988 and began her career that year as the host of TV show Entertainment Weekly.
    She made an acting debut in Kang Woo-suk's Who Saw the Dragon's Claws? in 1991, through which she won the Grand Bell Award and the Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress.
    She has established an image for herself as an elegant woman as she played various roles, both leading and supporting, in films, period dramas, and TV series. But, her goal is not to be the icon of an incredibly younger-looking, elegant woman. She desires to play various roles in many different genres and is eager to overcome the obstacles that her glamorous appearances may bring.
  • Kim So-young

    Formerly an MBC announcer, Kim So-young is the CEO of B Plant and currently owns a neighborhood bookstore called Dangin-ri Book Plant. B Plant is the corporate name for the bookstore she owns. She has been engrossed in books since she was banned from making an appearance on MBC. After resigning, she chose to become a full-time bookstore owner. She also introduces books in various media formats and plans events related to books. In April, she published Should’ve Done it Earlier, a travelogue about her visiting bookstores in Tokyo.
  • Kim Eana

    Lyricist

    Kim Eana is a Korean lyricist. Majoring in art history in college, she started to pursue her dream of becoming a composer after graduation, but switched to writing lyrics with the encouragement of composer Kim Hyung-suk. She made her debut as a lyricist in 2003 with Sung Si-kyung’s “If It Snows in October,” and since then has written lyrics for many hit songs. In 2014, she ranked first among the lyricists for royalties. Her main works include “Lucky” (EXO), “Good Day" (IU), “Abracadabra" (Brown Eyed Girls), and “Meet Him Among Them” (Lee Sun Hee). She also received notable attention as an artist who boldly expresses her opinion about social issues related to gender roles and women’s problems. When she was asked about childbirth on a TV program, she answered, “I can’t be expected to give birth just for the sake of the country,” which still remains a hot topic that many people talk about. At edaily W Festa, she and composer Kim Hyung-suk will talk about the thoughts and dreams of women today through the art of songs.
  • Kim Je-dong

    entertainer

    He is a Korean entertainer and has hosted all kinds of festivals before he made his debut in the entertainment business through Yoon Do-hyun's Love Letter in 2002.
    Gradually attaining fame with his witty persona, he became one of Korea’s leading MCs by winning the Grand Prize at the KBS Entertainment Awards in 2006.
    He made his name as an entertainer by hosting various programs as main MC such as Healing Camp and Kim Je-dong’s Talk to You, and is also not afraid to be outspoken about sensitive political issues.

  • Kim hyung-suk

    Composer

    Kim Hyung-suk is a Korean composer and producer. He entered the Department of Composition at Hanyang University in 1985, and began to form his career as a composer in 1989 with In Soo-ni’s “Practice Separation.” Countless hit songs were created by him since then, such as Kim Kwang-seok’s ” For the Reason of Love”, Solid’s “Holding the End of this Night,” Kim Gun-mo’s “First Impression” and J.Y. Park’s “Behind You.” He is also known as the ‘master of ballad composition’ and ‘father of pop music.’ He married actress Seo Jin-ho in 2010 and is also now a ‘working dad’ with a six-year-old daughter. Lyricist Kim Eana happens to share a long affinity with him in pop culture. Recently, he launched the '2019 One K Global Campaign' with Kim Eana, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Samil Independence Movement of Korea and hoping for Korean reunification. Together at edaily W Festa, they will talk about the dreams and challenges faced by women in 2018 through the topic of music and women.
  • Moon So-ri

    >> “Don’t follow the path made by others.” This is the motto of Moon So-ri in her 20th year of career as an actress. She made her debut with Lee Chang-dong’s film Peppermint Candy in 1999. She went on to make a name for herself as an actress that receives global attention with Oasis (2002) and A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003). The scope of her career has been extensive, ranging from films and TV shows to plays, and she has never settled for her position as an “actress.” Last year she wrote the screenplay and directed The Running Actress, and she made a successful debut as a film director, opening the new chapter of her life. She is now playing the charismatic role of the first female chief of the neurosurgery department at a university hospital in JTBC TV series Life.
  • Park Hyung-jun

    Dong-A University Professor Park Hyung-jun graduated from Daeil High School and the Department of Sociology at Korea University. He was a journalist at the JoongAng Ilbo until he proceeded to his new post as a sociology professor at Dong-A University in 1991. He entered politics as a policy adviser for former President Kim Young-sam and joined the National Assembly as the 17th term member in 2004. He served as a spokesperson for the Grand National Party (Hannara) in 2007, and as Senior Presidential Secretary for Political Affairs at Cheongwadae from 2009 to 2010 during the Lee Myung-bak government. Then he served as the 29th Secretary General of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea from 2014 to 2016. Now he is a ‘commentator judging the conservative party.’ Since July this year, he has been appearing on JTBC ‘Ssulzun.’
  • Byun Hye-jung

    Women’s Human Rights Institute of Korea is a public institution under the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family established to prevent and eradicate violence against women and support victims of violence. Inaugurated as the 4th President of this institute at the end of December 2017, Byun Hye-jung is a specialist in feminist politics, having actively participated in the field for over 30 years. Born in 1964, she served as research professor at the Korean Women's Institute (KWI) of Ewha Womans University, director of the research institute under the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, counseling professor at Sogang University Counseling Center for Gender Equality, non-executive director of Women’s Human Rights Institute of Korea, and Women’s Affairs officer at Chungbuk Provincial Government. Women’s Human Rights Institute of Korea faces the burden of growing responsibility to match the growing public demand to improve women’s rights and eradicate increasingly diverse forms of violence against women, such as misogyny, dating violence and digital violence. She aims to listen to voices in the field as much as possible in her three years of office, and look further into the blind spot of gender violence that is often overlooked by law.
  • Uhm Jung-hwa

    Uhm Jung-hwa is a singer that shows the beauty of aging amidst young idol groups dressed in school uniforms and screaming ‘oppa.’ She is a great actress who won the Grand Bell Award and the Paeksang Arts Award for Best Actress. She is truly a star that continuously strives to reinvent herself by embracing contemporary trends, even though she can just be content with her many hit songs and well-established fame. Hoping to prove to the world that aging can also be sexy, she keeps standing up to the prejudices of the world.
  • Woo Suk-hoon

    Woo Suk-hoon, co-representative of My Country 21, is an economist. He graduated from the Department of Economics at Yonsei University and earned a Ph.D. in economics at the graduate school of Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. He triggered a great sensation in our society with his book 880,000-Won Generation, which examines the financial difficulties of youth. He argues that gender equality is absolutely necessary not just for justice but, more importantly, to maximize economic efficiency. He is a scholar that has watched gender economics with interest, which has long shed light on gender-based wage. His books also include The Fraud of the Country and Social Science for You and Me.
  • Won Dong-yeon

    Won Dong-yeon founded Realies Pictures in January 2006 and produced numerous box office hits such as 200 Pounds Beauty, Take Off and Masquerade. Recently, both films of his Along with the Gods series attracted 10 million viewers each, which was a first in the history of Korean films. The scale of the movie does not matter to him; his secret is to let his intuition lead him, choosing a story that attracts him, adding his own colors, and planning a movie with an appealing touch. Since last year he has been making an appearance as a panelist in KBS cultural TV program The Day, History Journal, displaying his clear wit. Won is participating in this forum as moderator of Session 3.
  • Yu jeong-im

    Busan English Broadcasting (BeFM) Programming and Production Department Executive Manager

    Born and raised in Seoul, Yoo majored in politics in college. She first joined a bank where she made corporate newsletters, but also got a job as an MBC writer through open recruitment, thereby working two jobs. She then quit the bank and worked as a freelance writer, and joined PSB (currently KNN) as a radio PD in 1997 when the station first opened. She is a producer as well as a broadcaster, leading a program for as long as 11 years. As executive manager at BeFM, she is currently leading the radio show “English Konglish” every Sunday morning.
  • Lee Ki-sang

    Lee Ki-sang is a freelance broadcaster with over 20 years of experience. A graduate from the School of Communication at Sogang University, he made his debut as a broadcaster in 1994 when he received the silver prize in the Mnet Video Jockey (VJ) Contest. He has been hosts for all kinds of terrestrial TV shows as well, such as KBS World Today on KBS, Night of TV Entertainment and Our Children Have Changed on SBS. He founded the Korean Freelance Broadcasters’ Alliance (KFBA) in 2013 to promote the welfare and secure rights for other freelance broadcasters like him in Korea. He is a veteran that is also known as "headmaster of broadcasters" for training new actors and actresses that are not used to broadcasting into becoming professional TV show hosts. Lee will participate in the Edaily W Festa as a moderator in the Debate 2: Change and Future session.
  • Lee Hee-hee

    Film director

    She is a female director representing Chungmuro, acknowledged for her sophisticated directing skills through her works such as “Love Exposure” (2007) and “Missing” (2016). She recently rose to fame as a director with box-office value as well, receiving favorable reviews for “The Accidental Detective 2: In Action.” This is a crime comedy film about a Sherlock fan and comic book storekeeper Kang Dae-man (Kwon Sang-woo) and legendary detective Noh Tae-soo (Sung Dong-il) opening a private detective agency and solving cases after bringing on a third member, Yeo-chi (Lee Kwang-soo), a former cybercrime investigator. As a Korean film directed by a female director, this film was the second highest on the box-office chart after “Forever the Moment” (released in 2008 / 4.04 million viewers). Lee Eon-hie said in a media interview: “Female directors are not given much opportunity to work on commercial films. So by doing this, I want to break free from the label about female directors and make people begin to think that this particular director can make all kinds of films.”
  • Lee Jung-jin

    He first made his debut as a fashion model but is currently an actor. He appeared in many TV series and made his name with the role of Kim Woo-sik in the 2004 film Once Upon a Time in High School. Recently, he is representative of an entertainment agency and is also working as a photographer on the side. His main works include the films Mapado and Pietà, and he also received great attention by making an appearance in reality shows such as Rural Police and Qualifications of Men.
  • Lee Joon-suk

    He is a member of the leadership council of the Bareunmirae Party, and a remarkably young member at Yeouido, where the average age of National Assembly members is 55.5. He ran a venture company after graduating from Seoul Science High School and Harvard University, and at the age of 26 he started his career in politics as Park Geun-hye’s entourage in 2011 joining the Grand National Party (Hannara). He has recently been engaged in various activities on TV and in Yeouido. He has now shed his image as Park’s entourage and is taking a leap forward as a politician who speaks up and voices his opinion.
  • Lim Sun-young

    9% is the percentage of female entrepreneurs at Korean startups. Due to this sheer underrepresentation, it is tough to think of the names of female entrepreneurs in the IT industry. Yet, there has recently been a whirlwind of women’s leadership in the Korean IT industry. Lim Sun-young, vice president of Kakao’s portal division, is at the forefront of this trend. As the Korean Startup Ecosystem Forum (KSEF) puts it, the defining characteristics of Korean startup leaders can be summed up in three words: engineering background; 30s; and male.’ Lim shatters is exactly the opposite: liberal arts background; 40s; and woman. Starting her career as a journalist in 1999, she joined Daum in 2004 where she served as news editor, head of the media team and head of the content group; she now serves as vice president. She says she strived to build up unique experience that could help her overcome her disadvantages and develop her specialty that no one else could emulate. “Women’s career interruptions are the boss’ loss.” This is her motto. Lim will participate as a debate panelist in Session 2 at the EDaily W Festa.
  • Cho Hye-jung

    Cho Hye-jung, chairman of the Korean Association of Film Critics, graduated from Ewha Womans University and earned her Ph.D. at Chung-Ang University, after which she served as a professor of the Department of Theater and Film at the University of Suwon and is now a professor of the Graduate School of Arts at Chung-Ang University. She is a film critic who has been serving as a judge of the Blue Dragon Awards since 2002, as well as a member of the Korea Media Rating Board, director of the Korean Film Archive, chairman of the Korea Association of Film Education, and director of Women in Film Korea. This January, she was elected as the 25th chairman of the Korean Association of Film Critics. She published books titled And the Film Goes On (collection of reviews), Late Autumn, Lee Man-hee (co-authorship), and Korean Cinema between Liberation and War (co-authorship). She declared her will to "promote expertise and diversity of criticism" for her inauguration. In particular, she is determined to expand criticism in terms of gender equality with a focus on female critics. She will participate in the Edaily W Festa as a panel speaker in the Debate 2: Change and Future session, and talk about solutions and advice to lead to the world of pop culture and art in which equality and diversity can be ensured.