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==The Cho Gye-chang award==
The Korean Journalist Association in 2010 established the Cho Gye-chang Journalism Award for achievement in international news reporting to commemorate Cho Gye-chang, the former Yonhap correspondent in [[Shenyang]], [[People's Republic of China|China]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.journalist.or.kr/news/article.html?no=24856|title=Cho Gye-chang Journalism Award|website=[[Journalists Association of Korea]]|language=ko|access-date=2018-05-05}}</ref> Cho was killed in a car crash in December 2008 on the way back, after having conducted an interview with a Korean-Chinese academic. He was assigned to Shenyang in 2006 as the first South Korean correspondent in the northern Chinese city. Cho was widely admired as an ardent news writer who focused on North Korean affairs and Korean-Chinese communities. On the first anniversary of his demise, Korean-Chinese organizations and local journalists paid tribute to him as a "truly hardworking reporter with great professionalism".<ref>[http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0003001915 "조계창 특파원, 정말 부지런했던 기자"] Yonhap. Retrieved February 17, 2012.</ref> Cho's death marked the first time that Yonhap had lost a reporter on an international assignment.{{fact|date=December 2024}}