The notice
On 31 August 2026 Kyeonggi Ilbo, the daily newspaper of Gyeonggi Province, published a notice titled “A New Opinion Section Opens a New Morning” (「[알림] 새 오피니언 새 아침을 엽니다」) announcing an autumn reorganization of its opinion pages. The notice sets out a column for each weekday and introduces the writers of each. In it Jungsoo Kim is named as one of four writers for the Wednesday column Reading the World (세상읽기).
The reorganized pages differ by day. Monday carries Opening the Morning and Issue & Economy. Tuesday carries the Gyeonggi and Incheon commentary columns and A Walk Through Culture. Wednesday carries the Signed Column and Reading the World. Thursday carries Life, an Odyssey, and Friday closes the week with Theme Travel, Music Stories, and A Journey Through Greek Civilization. The writers are professors, lawyers, critics, clergy, and artists from their respective fields.
The paragraph on Reading the World reads, in translation:
The “Reading the World” column brings together Jungsoo Kim, professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Midwest University; Song Il-chan, head of the Mal-i-doeneun Institute; Lee Ki-yeon, attorney at the law firm J&; and Choi Yo-han, political commentator, to survey today’s society from many angles and look for a better future.
The notice ran with a graphic gathering the photographs of all thirty-six writers by weekday. The full notice, in Korean, is on the Kyeonggi Ilbo article page.
Afterwards
Kim’s first Reading the World column after the reorganization appeared online on 15 September and in print the next day, Wednesday 16 September, on page 19. The full text is carried in a later post on this site.