Kang Shin-who somehow wins another "Journalist of the Month" award.

Kang Shin-who has won another "Journalist of the Month" award from the Journalist Association of Korea (한국기자협회) and the Korea Press Foundation, writes the Korea Times.

Kang Shin-who, a Korea Times city desk reporter, has been named “Journalist of the Month” for his series of investigative articles on irregularities involving foreign schools.

The Journalist Association of Korea (JAK) and the Korea Press Foundation announced Tuesday Kang's selection for his series of in-depth reports starting on Sept 8.
Kang has long written about ill practices at foreign schools and his report last year that Kang Sung-jong of the main opposition Democratic Party embezzled a large amount of money from the Indianhead International School (IIS), led to the arrest of the lawmaker. It was the first time the National Assembly has approved the arrest of a legislator in 15 years.

Impressive indeed, especially in a domestic foreign-language press that rarely if ever breaks news and investigates stories in the Korean-language world. This is his third such award in the past year, if I'm not mistaken (1, 2, 3). I'm just happy this preoccupation with foreign schools, foreign tests, and "unqualified" foreign students has kept him off the native speaker English teacher beat, where over the course of a couple years he became known in some circles---like this one---as the worst reporter in Korea's English-language press for his history, and agenda, of bias and distortion that includes repeatedly and consistently fabricating quotations and statistics, admitting to printing information known to be false, giving considerable attention to the hate-group Anti-English Spectrum (of which he is a member), and degrading foreign teachers with numerous articles calling us "unqualified" or insisting there is a social problem with undocumented and criminal teachers. He also increased his profile by instigating an immigration investigation of me following several blog posts critical of his reporting.

While he may have won a few fans among domestic educators for his reporting on foreign schools and their students, he's a "journalist" foreign English teachers will need to give a wide berth. He emailed me earlier in the year to tell me not to reprint his picture here, so I won't; you can find it on several other posts and articles, and suffice it to say if you see that face asking you questions, on the record or off, go the other way.