VNA General Director Vu Viet Trang (R) and KPF Director Lee Hee-yong (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Vu VietTrang hosted a reception in Hanoi on November 1 for Director of the Korea PressFoundation Lee Hee-yong.
Trang said the VNA is a national news agency underthe management of the Government and the official news agency of the State. It provides multimedia services for the press system at home and abroadin five languages, namely Vietnamese, Chinese, English, French, and Spanish.
With 20 information units, four units assisting the General Director and four information service units, the VNA has 2,300 employees, including over 1,000 reporters and editors. Amid the digitaltransformation, the VNA is now the biggest supplier of news in the country,from source news in text, photo, audio, video, and infographic formats to daily, weeklypublications, magazines, pictorial newspaper, electronic newswire, and information on mobilephones and social media. Print and electronic newspapers are published in 10languages, namely Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russia,English, French, and Spanish.
The VNA also has a professional social organisationcalled VNA Journalists’ Association under the management of the Vietnam Journalists’Association. With a 900-strong members, it has become one of those with thelargest membership.
As Vietnam and the Republic of Korea are celebrating the 30th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties, Trang expressed her belief that thevisit will reinforce bilateral press cooperation, contributing to further strengtheningties between the two countries.
At the reception (Photo: VNA) Lee, for his part, said the KPF is a multidisciplinary foundation with many activities such as trainingjournalists, supporting journalism rights, protecting rights and interests of memberjournalists, and helping journalists learn about international press andculture, including Vietnam.
Members of the KPF delegation, mostly young journalists,discussed professionalism in press activities, operations of the VNAunits, development trend of the VNA and Vietnamese press agencies amid digitaltransformation.
Asked about how the VNA will work to maintain its role in the presssector, Trang highlighted a need to focus on contents, professionalism and technology.
According to her, 48% of the staff in VNA are women and the rateof female leaders in the agency is high.
On theoccasion, Trang presented a collection of Vietnam's heritagephotos taken by VNA photographers to the delegation./.
