As part of the "Atlantic Council Korea Journalist Fellowship" program organized by the Atlantic Council and supported by the Korea Foundation, eight next-generation journalists of the United States visited Korea from March 31 through April 6, 2019.

In its first year of operation, the Atlantic Council Korea Journalist Fellowship program is attended by promising journalists primarily working on foreign affairs and international security at major U.S. news media such as ABC News, CBS News, CNN, USA Today and Washington Post. They were selected through fellowship competition among currently active journalists with more than three years of work experience in reporting news on foreign policy, international security and Asian affairs at TV, radio, newspaper and other media companies.

Under the theme of "A Way Forward for the Peaceful and Denuclearized Korean Peninsula," the fellowship program is composed of roundtable meetings in the United States and a week-long visit to Korea. The participants attended two roundtable meetings in Washington D.C. in February and March and will have the last one in June.

During their stay in Korea, the journalists visited Cheong Wa Dae, the Ministry of Unification, the Ministry of Defense, the National Assembly and other relevant institutions to be briefed and have discussion on Korea's major foreign affairs issues, unification policy and defense policy. They also had in-depth discussion on Korean foreign policy related issues respectively with Professor Moon Chung-in, a special advisor to President Moon Jae-in for unification, diplomacy and national security affairs, and U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harrison.

In addition, they had meetings with Korean journalists and foreign correspondents in Seoul to discuss major issues and relevant news reporting on the Korean Peninsula. Such meetings provided them with an opportunity to strengthen their network with journalists in Korea.

Finally, the U.S. journalists also visited SK Telecom and Hyundai Motor Group to discuss the present and future of Korea’s representative industries, thereby making themselves familiar with various issues related to Korea such as business and economy on top of diplomacy and security.