The Korea Herald HIT Forum

* Date: Oct. 11 Wednesday (09:00-15:00)
* Venue: Dynasty Hall, Hotel Shilla Seoul
* Organizing committee : 02-727-0206 / khforum@heraldcorp.com

Time

Program

Speaker

09:00 - 09:15

Reception

09:15 - 09:20

Opening remarks

Choi Jin-young
- CEO of The Korea Herald

09:20 - 09:40

Congratulatory remark

09:40 - 10:10

Keynote speech I

Beyond Earth, into space

Sasha Sagan
- Acclaimed author / Daughter of Carl Sagan

10:10 - 10:40

Keynote speech II

Lessons learned in space

Yi So-yeon
- Korea’s first and only astronaut

10:40 - 11:30

Special session

Earthling before Korean: How to embrace cosmos

Sagan & Yi conversation

11:30 - 13:00

LUNCH BREAK

13:00 - 13:30

Session 1

Korea’s space journey

Lee Joon
- Executive director of strategy & planning directorate

13:30 - 14:00

Session 2

Hanwha’s space roadmap

Lee Jun-won
- Senior vice president of Hanwha Aerospace

14:00 - 14:30

Session 3

Innospace, Korean version of SpaceX

Jung Hun
- CTO of Innospace

14:30 - 15:00

Session 4

Weaving our space odyssey

Bae Myung-hoon
- Best-selling author

Session chair: Eric Kim, Adjunct professor at Hanyang University

Closing