Something that unified most of our disparate group of journalists was a love of beer
Back in January 2020, I was all set to visit South Korea for the first time, as an invitee to its annual “World Journalists Conference”, scheduled for March.
That itself was interesting, as I emerged from a 6.30am alarm call to address what looked like a meeting of the UN General Assembly on my laptop, with 50-odd journalists from all over the world. Honesty compels me to admit, however, that much of the conference’s fun was just mixing with fellow press people from such far-flung places as Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, or – at the other end of the alphabetic spectrum – Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Yemen.During the session on war reporting, she asked the panellists’ opinion on the Cypriot border question. But they all had to explain politely that they didn’t know much about Cyprus.
When I asked if she wasn’t “oppressed”, she just laughed. If anyone was oppressing her, it was the Korean waiter who filled her wine glass at lunch when she wasn’t looking.
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