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"The Role of the Media in Fighting Corruption: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond"
July 26-27, 2002
Seoul, Korea
Introduction

Session I: The Current State of Media Reporting on Corruption in Asia

Session II: The Institutional and Legal Environment

Session III: Forging Partnerships in the Fight Against Corruption

Session IV: Promoting More Effective Media Coverage

Agenda

Participants
Agenda
July 26, 2002

Opening Remarks
  Speakers: Baek Jong-Chun (President, the Sejong Institute), and Larry   Diamond (Co-director,International Forum for Democratic Studies, NED)

Session I: The Current State of Media Reporting on Corruption in Asia
  Moderator: Roland Rich (Director, Center for Democratic Institutions,   Australia)

  Speakers: Melinda Quintos De Jesus (Executive Director, Center for Media   Freedom and Responsibility, the Philippines), and Andy On-Tat   Ho (Columnist, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong)

Luncheon Session II: The Institutional and Legal Environment
  Moderator: Sook Jong Lee (Fellow, the Sejong Institute)

  Speakers: Rick Li-shi Chu (Editor in Chief, Taipei Times, Taiwan), and   Hyo Seong Lee (Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)

Dinner July 27, 2002

Session III: Forging Partnerships in the Fight Against Corruption
  Moderator: Larry Diamond (Co-director, International Forum for Democratic   Studies, NED)

  Speakers: Luis GAbriel Moreno Ocampo (President, Transparency   International, Latin America and Caribbean Islands Chapter, Argentina),   and Ge0-Sung Kim (Secretary General, Transparency International Korea)

Luncheon Session IV: Promoting More Effective Media Coverage
  Moderator: Kie-Duck Park (Director, Committee for the Democracy Forum,   The Sejong Institute)

  Speakers: Stephen Magagnini (Senior Writer, Sacramento Bee newspaper,   USA), and Mircea Toma (Senior Editor, Academia magazine, Catavencu,   Romania)

Closing Session   Closing remarks: Marc F. Plattner (Co-director, International Forum for   Democratic Studies, NED), and Kie-Duck Park (Director, Committee for   the Democracy Forum, the Sejong Institute)