The 2nd Korea-Australia Future Youth Forum in Sydney 🇰🇷🇭🇲

This week, I had the absolute privilege to be one of the selected delegates at the 2nd Korea-Australia Future Youth Forum and the 4th Korea-Australia Future Forum in Sydney. 🇰🇷🇭🇲

It was a personally meaningful milestone to participate in Track 1.5 diplomacy, as I first came to Australia in 2022 to pursue my degree. 

Yesterday, at the Future Youth Forum, I was invited to speak along with Dylan Goh, moderated by Pippa Dickson PhD, on the topic of “How can Australia and Korea collaborate through AI-driven digital content to enhance storytelling, cultural exchange, and people-to-people connections?” I proposed that Korea and Australia could collaborate to develop AI tools that enable context-awareness. The AI-powered translation model can account for the formality level and retain nuance, especially for idioms, metaphors, and culturally specific humour or emotion, especially with Korean. I argued that if AI could help reduce the language barrier, we'd see more content that could become popular, as evidenced by the recent K-phenomenon with Netflix's "K-pop Demon Hunters", or even more.

Today, at the Future Forum, I have gathered many professionals who are deeply interested in Korea-Australia relations, primarily in four areas: Strategic and Security Cooperation, Innovation and Critical Technology Cooperation, Economic Cooperation, and People-to-People Links – including Arts and Culture.

I would like to thank The Korea Foundation, Australia-Korea Foundation 호한재단, and Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade providing me with this tremendous opportunity.