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Juno Kim is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and photographer at Runaway Juno Media. Originally hailing from Seoul, South Korea, Juno set off for the wider world to pursue her passion for international travel and storytelling. Since leaving her engineering job, she has been living out of a backpack, writing, and photographing her way through more than 45 countries for last four years. She believes there are always stories to tell, in any corner of the world. She’s been participating in numerous global-wide new media campaigns as a digital influencer. She also opened several photography exhibitions. Juno initiated the Asian Women's Empowerment Organization and hosted its first annual conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to empower Asian women to pursue their passions and a more independent lifestyle. She and her team successfully hosted AWE '14 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia in 2014 and AWE ’15 in Jogja, Indonesia in 2015. Now they are preparing for more AWE-some conference in 2016.