The Golden Dragon is spearheading a new interschool initiative to connect student-led publications across South Korea.
Student journalism across international schools in Korea has long operated in isolation. Each publication works hard within its own school, building its own readership and developing its own voice, but rarely in conversation with the others. The Korean International Scholastic Press Association, or KISPA, is here to change that.
Whether your school has a long-running newspaper, a literary magazine, or a newly founded publication finding its footing, KISPA offers a space to collaborate, share resources, and grow together.
So what does it actually look like?
Member publications will be able to cross-link (if published online) and republish each other’s work, allowing the impact of student voices to extend beyond their own school walls. A shared resource library will give editorial teams access to style guides, workflow templates, and other useful resources: the institutional knowledge that too often disappears when a graduating class leaves. And for students who want to write outside their school’s ecosystem entirely, KISPA will run its own independent publication, open to contributors from every member school.
The Golden Dragon is proud to be a founding member of this initiative. We believe that by building this network together, every publication involved becomes stronger for it.
KISPA is currently in its founding phase, reaching out to student publications across Korea, and so far has Busan Foreign School’s Global Affairs Magazine on board. If your school has a publication and you’re interested in joining, or if you simply want to follow what we’re building, reach out to us at kispainfo [at] gmail [dot] com or visit kispa.net.
— The Editors, The Golden Dragon