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The
annual awards aim to honour typical people who have brought pride to the
Republic of Korea (RoK) over the past year.
Park
has been recognised for his significant contributions to Vietnamese football,
which have helped to further advertise the image of the RoK country and its
people, as well as bringing the RoK-Vietnam relations to new heights.
After
more than a year of working in the Southeast Asian country, the 59-year-old
tactician has produced constant miracles for Vietnamese football, bringing
Vietnam U23s to the final match of the 2018 AFC Championship and leading the
Vietnam Olympic team to the Asian Games semifinals. In addition, Park and his
Vietnamese players now have the upper hand to win the 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup
trophy against Malaysia.
The
RoK media have closely followed and covered the footsteps of Park and his
Vietnamese teams. Even SBS TV, operated by the Seoul Broadcasting System, has
bought the broadcast rights of Vietnamese matches at the 2018 AFF Cup in
order to serve local demand.
The
Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) is the largest organisation of
professional journalists in the RoK with a current membership of over 10,000
individual journalists working for the nation's newspaper companies,
broadcasting services, Internet news, and news agencies.
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