(English) Hakgu Jeong was born in 1960. After graduating from college, he worked for a company in Seoul for two years before joining a local magazine in his hometown Masan in October 1988. Six years later, he moved to Yonhap News, covering major news in the Gyeongnam area, and after working at the headquarters, served as the head of the Gyeongnam Reporting Division for four years before retiring in August 2020. Since September 2021, he has been a member of the Gyeongnam Committee of the Media Arbitration Committee. He received his PhD in journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Dong-A University. His works include Escape the City: How to Make a Six-Figure Income Through Farming published by Yonhap News in 2001 and Relationship Between the Spread of Fake News in the Post-Truth Era and Media Credibility, a PhD thesis, in 2019.