The Korea University (KU) news that regularly flies into your mail, the video files of the Ko-yon annual games is something that we come across a lot as KU students. However, not many of us know that these video files and KU news are made under the organization called 'Korea University Television Network (KTN)'. Jang Hwi Jin ('00, Computer Science), the assistant manager and the director of KTN, is in the center of the process in making the films and devotes himself day and night to KTN.

Becoming an assistant manager of KTN was what Jang would never have imagined of during his college life. Majoring in engineering and getting a master's degree in Computer Science, Jang thought he would work for the engineering companies or something that is related to his major after his graduation. However he happened to get a job offer by chance and has been working with the broadcasting station, KTN, since then. However, after working for a while, Jang was surprised at how much engineering knowledge is actually needed for this work and how broadcasting and engineering was related.

"I sometimes feel that I am still studying the engineering studies. When sitting in the office and manipulating with the diverse effects, there are many times when my studies in computer science is actually needed," says Jang. He added that there are always things that do not seem to relate much, but things are somehow all related, and Broadcasting and Engineering was one of them. Sometimes he feels that this work is the extension of his school studies. This was one of the reasons Jang decided to settle with his work in KTN, and come to be an assistant manager today.

As an assistant manger of KTN, there are major events Jang has to be in charge of. First, there is the annual KTN video festival. This festival became an annual event by accepting students' requirements of making films. Students in KTN are interested a lot in making movies, and the movies they make are open for all the KU students to watch in the KU Cinema Trap. There is also a homecoming day that KTN holds every year for the long-lasting friendship between the seniors. Apart from this, KTN is in charge of sending out the news happening in KU to KU graduates and alumni. 

Jang has been working with KTN since when it was first built in 1997. He started from the bottom and worked to establish KTN with the original founding members. "It was one of the hardest moments in my career life. Working with the newly-starting television network was not always easy. There was literally nothing at first," recalls Jang. KTN was starting out for the first time and it was their duty to set the directions and discuss the basic settings. However he had successfully managed to overcome the difficulties that KTN confronted during its early days.

Recently Jang is facing another problem. It is the equipment that KTN has in the building. Jang says most of the equipment are used from the 80s when they first founded KTN. Almost 20 years have past but Jang is worried that there is no progress in the equipment that the station is using. He added as long as there is a constant change in technology and information, KTN needs to continue developing its working environment for students and better quality videos. He truly wish that the members could work in a better environment and achieve their dreams through KTN.   

When asked whether the channel ratings of KTN do not matter to him, Jang replied with a little smile on his face, "Do the channel ratings matter?  People think that we might not have high ratings but we have the whole KU graduates as the fixed audiences of KTN, and we focus more on trying to provide KU students with diverse cultural contents." Jang was determined to build KTN as the school's television network that can benefit the whole KU students as well as revealing the problems hidden on campus. The annual Ko-yeon games is one of the biggest programs that KTN is working on every year and he added there are quite a lot of viewers who try to find the videos on live during the festivals and even after the games.

During the annual Ko-Yon games, what usually pops up on the huge electronic display in Jamsil stadium are the films made by Korea University Broadcasting System (KUBS). There are a lot of people who cannot tell the difference between KUBS and KTN. KUBS used to be the broadcasting station of the school radio; however, as more of the requirements for the television have risen, the school decided to build a television system which is now KTN. Since then KTN has been playing its role as a television network trying to provide more and more visual contents of school news.

Jang believes that the Journalists of school broadcasting should always focus on broadcasting. Jang says that the members of KTN and all the student reporters should learn to have an eye to see the world with a critical mind. There are a lot of problems that exist within the campus and a lot of unsolved problems that students should work out together. Reporters of KTN are trained to see these school and social problems with a critical mind. 'Short Story, Long Thoughts' and 'Reading the World' are the representative programs of KTN which portray the problems that are lying beneath the surface of society.