History

Amanda Lotz

Amanda Lotz is a media scholar, professor, and industry consultant. Her expertise includes media industries, digital distribution, the future of television, the business of media, and net neutrality. Professor Lotz leads the Transforming Media Industries research program in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of twelve books that explore television and media industries including Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand, Media Disrupted: Surviving Cannibals, Pirates and Streaming Wars, We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All, The Television Will Be Revolutionized, and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television. Her most recent books explore the connections between internet-distributed services such as Netflix and the legacy television industry, as well as the business strategies and revenue models that differ. Her books have been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Italian, Russian, and Polish. Her consulting work spans projects for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (Australian Government), NBC Station Group, IFC, Detroit Public Television, Samsung, Google, the Estonian National Public Broadcasting Council, Warner Bros., Red Line Editorial, CNN's "The Nineties," and the Convergence Cultures Consortium. She is frequently interviewed by international press outlets, hosted the Media Business Matters podcast, and tweets about television and media @DrTVLotz. For more see amandalotz.com.

Catherine Park

Catherine Park oversees the management and operations of Paramount’s business in Asia (Greater China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia), including digital media, programme sales, consumer products, recreation and ancillary IP licensing and co- production. She also spearheads the company’s streaming business in the region, focusing on accelerating the roll-out of streaming products such as Paramount+ and Pluto TV, and driving the development of original content. Prior to Paramount, Park was with Korea’s Coupang Corp., where she was Head of Content for its streaming service, Coupang Play. Park has a proven track record of leading businesses and driving growth for large media organizations, and successfully launching products with solid go-to-market strategies. Her extensive experience in the entertainment and media industry includes senior roles at Discovery, Sony, Miramax, Warner Music, and CJ Entertainment. Park is a huge cinephile and tries to watch at least one movie a day. She also enjoys oil painting in her spare time.

Louis Boswell

Louis Boswell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Asia Video Industry Association. As CEO, his remit is to lead the industry through championing all broad-based initiatives that result in a more vibrant and healthy video ecosystem. This includes being at the forefront of industry research, supporting evolving business models, understanding the role of technology, representing the industry in conversations with regulators and taking a leading role in eliminating piracy.

Pasu Srihirun

Mr. Pasu Srihirun, Executive Director of Policy Analysis Bureau of the Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), joined NBTC in 2010 as Director of Telecommunication Data Center. Mr.Pasu became Executive Director of Broadcasting Policy and Research Bureau in 2014. Then, in 2020, He became Executive Director of Broadcasting Business Licensing Bureau. He has expertise and experience in Telecommunication, Broadcasting, Strategic marketing, Integration practice of Telecommunication and Broadcasting technology, and lead expert in Digital Platform Services. Mr. Pasu was appointed to be Executive Director of Policy Analysis Bureau in 2022. Mr. Pasu Srihirun has more than 18 years of Telecommunication and Broadcasting work experience and Policy combining engineering, economics and technological research in NBTC. At present, He is a secretary of subcommittee in Communication Services on Digital Platform and secretary of subcommittee in Competitive and Prices which both are working about OTT policy and regulatory strategies. Mr. Pasu holds a Bachelor degree of Engineering, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand. He also attained a Master’s degrees of Science (Management) from Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand and Communications Management from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

Ta-Wei Chien

Mr. Ta-Wei Chien is the CEO and chairman of LiTV Taiwan Inc. (www.LiTV.tv) , which is the largest domestic OTT service in Taiwan. Mr. Chien also serves as the chairman of the Taiwan OTT Industry Association (referred to as Taiwan OTT Association). Under Mr. Chien’s leadership, Taiwan OTT Association has been putting tremendous efforts to promote genuine legal content, and fighting against all kinds of piracy OTT services in Taiwan. Mr. Chien believes that through the continuous and vigorous OTT development, it will provide more high-quality Taiwan content creation and deploy advanced digital advertising technology, specially, increasingly popular CTV advertisement. In his career, Mr. Chien served as senior vice president at TiVo (www.TiVo.com) in the United States and vice president at Silicon Graphics (SGI) in the United States. Through his 40+ years’ experience in satellite, cable, OTT and DVR industry, Mr. Chien excels in value-added services, OTT services & operations, digital advertising technology, big data, and more important, various effective business models. LiTV Taiwan Inc. has two major business groups, one is “LiTV OTT service” which provides 400 linear TV channels and 60,000 hours of VOD content ; and the other one is “LiAD digital advertising service” which can reach more than 16 million users in Taiwan throughout advertisement in different devices, PC, mobile, CTV, car, DOOH, etc

Brian Fuhrer

Brian Fuhrer is SVP, Product Strategy and Thought Leadership for Nielsen. In this role, he focuses on the streaming ecosystem and helps guide Nielsen’s product strategy in that area, while using our data to find stories and insights. Most recently, Brian has been working with a broad range of clients to focus on the dramatic changes being introduced by streaming and Direct to Consumer offerings and developing appropriate measurement solutions for them. With over 35 years in media research and product development at Nielsen, Brian’s experience spans the U.S. media and advertising industry as well as overseas markets where Nielsen has a media presence in more than 30 countries. He frequently speaks at industry events and has been extensively quoted in the press. Based in Tampa, Florida, Brian is a site leader at Nielsen’s Global Technology and Innovation Center.

Kiji Kim (김기주)

Kiju Kim as the head of the syndicated business division of HankooK Research, he conducts research on the media area and the advertising industry. He helps to establish a media content strategy for many media companies and platforms. Also he has contributed to develop advertiser’s media planning model and support to valuable consumer insight by research data. He has designed & managed HRC(Hankook Research Co. Ltd.)’s media & advertising project, provided insightful idea to media companies & advertising agencies. His experience has focused on media & advertisement studies for 23 years, after joined HRC. He is very close relationship with academia, media industry and advertising industry. He has contributed to the development of the media and advertising industry.

Chul-Soo Moon (문철수)

Dr. Chulsoo Moon, got a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from SungKyunKwan University in 1995 and is currently teaching Advertising, PR& Visual Communication as a professor at Hanshin University. In 2017, he was also the President of The Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies, which is the oldest and biggest national association striving to promote journalism and communication scholarship. Since 2019, he has served as the Chairman of the Korea OTT(Over the Top) Forum, established to promote cooperative development between legacy media and new convergence services such as OTT. He leads professional research and discussion about media industry development.

Hun-Yul Lee (이헌율)

Hun-Yul Lee received his PhD media studies from University of Iowa, and he is a professor at the School of Media and Communication, Korea University now. He enjoys three major elements television offer: watching, studying, and teaching television. Dr. Lee had started his career as a producer in a cable network in Korea before moving to academia. His experience in television and his love for visual content has inspired him to continue his academic pursue in the area. Currently, Dr. Lee focuses his research interests on the global development of new television, such as OTT/ VOD services in relation with broadcast content, Hallyu, and the nation-state. Dr. Lee’s research team has completed a few reports for a government agency regarding the development of global and Korean OTT services and their global and domestic media strategies.

Hee Joo Lee (이희주)

Hee Joo Lee majored in journalism at Seoul National University from 1989 to 1995. Before joining the Content Alliance Platform in 2014, he also held the post of chief policy planning officer at the Special Committee on terrestrial DMB. Since 1995, he has been working as a production producer for Dong-A TV and others. He has accumulated his career in Korea's new media industries such as terrestrial DMB and OTT. He awarded the presidential commendation in 2022, and is currently the chairman of the Korea OTT Association's operation committee and a member of the Korea Communications Commission's broadcasting innovation advisory committee.

Changnam Ko (고창남)

Changnam Ko has been serving as CRO in charge of business collaboration, communication, international cooperation at TVING since July 2022. On March 2000, Changnam Ko joined Nowcom, which provided VT-based online BBS named ‘Nownuri’ and experienced various tasks of internet business such as business strategy, business development, marketing, service planning, alliance, advertising sales at Nownuri, pdbox, and Afreeca TV, etc for 13 years. On January 2013, based on these experience, Changnam Ko joined as an internet business expert at CJ HelloVision, which served TVING, the first OTT service in Korea, and contributed to the early growth of TVING as a head of TVING business team. In 2016, ENM was acquired TVING from CJ HelloVision, Changnam Ko moved to ENM and he was in charge of TVING business operation. As TVING independented of ENM in Ocotber 2020, he played his role as a head of business operation, a corporation sole. Changnam Ko graduated from department of political science & international studies of Yonsei University in February 2000.

Min-Jin Jang (장민진)

Minjin Jang, Director of Localization at Iyuno Korea, oversees and supports all aspects of operations and language productions in Korea to deliver quality that transcends cultural barriers. Over 6 years at Iyuno, Minjin has achieved business outcomes by identifying areas of growth to improve service quality and scale, accelerating tech transformation to improve day-to-day workflow, and focusing on securing talent for quality, authenticity, and cultural adaptation. Based in Seoul, she is working on developing operational and creative strategies to ensure the highest quality services while reducing time to market

Jason Bechervaise

Originally from the UK Jason Bechervaise is an academic and film critic based in Seoul, he's been in Korea since 2010. Jason completed his Ph.D. at Hanyang University where he wrote a thesis on the work of Bong Joon Ho and the Korean film industry that was completed in 2016. He is also an active film critic having contributed to various outlets including Screen International, KBS World, Arirang and has also appeared on other global broadcasters including the BBC and CNN discussing the popularity of Korean content. Jason has also served on several juries such as the Seoul International Drama Awards, Wildflower Film Awards, the Seoul International Children’s Film Festival and the Olleh International Smartphone Film Festival. Jason is also a visiting professor at Korea University’s International Winter and Summer Campus where he teaches Korean cinema and has taught at various other institutions including Hanyang, Dongguk and Inha Universities. In addition, Jason’s first book published by Youkrack on the South Korean Film Industry is coming out at the end of 2022.