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ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025/Report/*Youngjin

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Youngjin Ko, Project Manager at Wikimedia Korea participated ESEAP Strategy summit 2025 representing Wikimedia Korea as project Manager.

Things learned at the strategy summit

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  • There are many similar, but different situation: Advocacy and global trends - That's vary depending on the situation that's underway within specific country.
  • How the governance structure of the ESEAP Hub will be, what's important needs on the ESEAP region such as translation and interpretation support.
  • Global trends: 5 global trends affecting wikimedia movement, and how we can create positive impact from these trends.

Participation

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  • Connecting Korean community to the global -
    • Introduced initiatives during panel session included Korea-Japan friendship project.
    • Working on the Opportunity to connect the underrepresented Korean community members, inviting several users to the WikiCon Seoul - annual local conference.
    • Introduced AI - based translated tool WIkiValut to the several people.
  • Various activities prepared summit organizers - global trends, Advocacy, What kind of works needs to prioritize during summit,
  • Karaokes :P made me tired.

Plans after the strategy summit

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  • Expanding global partnership with fellow ESEAP countries. specifically in this year we will plan the Korea-Malaysia friendship project and expanded activities with the Japanese community.
  • Share global trends with Fellow WMKR members.
  • Despite failed submission of the East Asia Conference, there are still a wishes to held an summit or conference in the South Korea, I am feeling positive about it and led the internal conferences, however there are giant internal concerns in the internally in WMKR.

Comments/Suggestions

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