Deputy Director of Sports Chosun Noh Joo-hwan Honored Lee Gil-yong's 36th Sports Reporter Award
Nov 27, 2025
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On the 21st, the Korea Sports Journalists Federation (Chairman Yang Jong-gu) selected and announced Deputy Director Roh Joo-hwan as the winner of the 36th Lee Gil-yong Sports Journalist Award. The federation received recommendations from 35 member companies and held a judging committee last week.
Deputy Director Noh Joo-hwan, who started his career as a sports reporter in Sports Chosun in 2000, has been reporting various sports news for about 25 years. He spent the longest time as a soccer reporter and experienced all four major professional sports teams in Korea, including baseball, basketball, and volleyball. Among the amateur sports, he covered track and field, swimming, and archery. Currently, he is the head of the global soccer contents team of Sports Chosun.
He visited the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, the 2006 Germany World Cup, the 2018 Russia World Cup, the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics. He also covered the 2015 Premier 12 (baseball) Taiwan Qualifiers, the 2009 Rome World Swimming Championships, the 2007 Osaka World Athletics Championships, the 2009 Berlin World Athletics Championships, the 2011 Daegu World Athletics Championships and the 2007 Asian Archery Championships.
Deputy Director Noh Joo-hwan received the Korea Sports Reporters' Association's third quarter Sports Reporters' Award in 2003, and has been serving as the vice chairman of the Korea Sports Reporters' Association since 2020. He served as an election management committee member for the president of the Korea Sports Council in 2021 and as an election management committee member for the president of the Korea Football Association this year. In 2009, he published 'SportsSponge' and carried out his writing activities. He is currently serving as the vice chairman of the Public Relations Media Committee of the Korean Sports Association and the public relations marketing committee of the Seoul Sports Association.
Reporter Seol Ha-eun of Yonhap News was selected as the winner of the 2025 For-profit Potter of the Year Award on the recommendation of the Federation Chairman's Committee. Having been on the field as a sports reporter at Yonhap News since 2022, he won the Sports Reporter Award in the fourth quarter of last year.
The Lee Gil-yong Sports Journalist Award and For-profit Potter of the Year Awards will be held at the 2025 Sports Journalist Awards. The 2025 Sports Reporters Awards ceremony will be held at the National Press Club on December 8 at 3 p.m. at the 20th floor of the Korea Press Center in Seoul.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
