Hong Euntaek will speak on citizen journalism at the NetSquared conference.

Euntaek is the Editor-in-chief of South Korea-based OhmyNews (English language), one of the most successful citizen journalism projects in the world. Founded in 2000, OhmyNews is the first news website in the world to accept, edit and publish articles from its readers, in an open source style of news reporting. Only about 20% of the site's content is written by the 55-person staff, while the majority of articles are written by 41,000 freelance contributors who are mostly ordinary citizens.

After OhmyNews provided influential coverage of the South Korean presidential elections in December 2002, President Roh Moo Hyun granted his first interview to OhmyNews.  Articles in the English-language International section of the publication cover every continent in the world.  OhmyNews plans to launch OhmyNews Japan later this year.

Prior to taking his position at OhmyNews, Hong  Euntaek worked with a major Korean daily newspaper (the Dong-A Ilbo) as a staff writer for 14 years. During that time, he covered Washington DC as a foreign correspondent. He has published a book in Korea, titled "Finding Blue America", based on his research across America.