American journalist
Kyung I. Lah
(
Korean
:
蘿徑
,
Korean pronunciation:
[na
?j?ŋ]
; born August 27, 1971)
[
citation needed
]
is a South Korean journalist and correspondent for
CNN
based in the United States.
[1]
Early life and education
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Lah was born in
Seoul, South Korea
, and grew up in
Streamwood, Illinois
, Lah graduated in 1989 from
Hoffman Estates High School
in
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
. She earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1993.
[2]
She was also a writer for the school's
Daily Illini
newspaper.
Career
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Lah began her career in 1993 as a desk assistant and field producer at
WBBM-TV
in Chicago. In 1994, she became an on-air reporter for
WWMT
-TV in
Kalamazoo, Michigan
. In 1995, she joined
KGTV
-TV in
San Diego
as a reporter.
[2]
In January 2000, she returned to WBBM-TV as an on-air reporter.
In early 2003, Lah moved to Los Angeles to take a job at
KNBC
-TV in
Los Angeles
, where she was a morning reporter and a midday anchor.
[2]
The Chicago Sun-Times
reported at the time that Lah had turned down a "half-hearted (contract) renewal offer" from WBBM-TV.
Despite receiving high praise from management, Lah was allegedly fired from
KNBC
-TV in
Los Angeles
in March 2005 for an alleged affair with her field producer Jeff Soto.
[3]
They were both married at the time and Lah's husband also worked for NBC in the Los Angeles area.
[4]
In late 2005, Lah joined
CNN Newsource
as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent.
[5]
In November 2007, Lah became CNN's Tokyo-based correspondent.
[2]
A Japanese interpreter always accompanied her. On June 27, 2012, Lah left her post in Japan for a position at the CNN bureau in Los Angeles.
[6]
Controversy
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Lah has written extensively about Japanese subculture, specializing in men who have married animated characters.
[7]
[8]
As a result, she has been criticized by the Japanese and international blogosphere for focusing on the irregular outliers of Japan and for allowing her racial bias to influence what she reports on, rather than the hard-hitting news that was expected from her as a reporter for an international broadcasting company.
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Personal life
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Lah has declared that she holds a very strong South Korean identity. In a 2006 interview with
Dynamic-Korea
, she revealed that she "[thinks] about the larger question of being Korean every single moment."
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See also
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References
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- ^
a
b
c
Dynamic Korea (July 5, 2006).
"Korean American Lah Shines on CNN"
.
Dynamic Korea
. Dynamic Korea, Inc. Archived from
the original
on September 29, 2011
. Retrieved
September 29,
2011
.
I am ethnically Korean. I was born in Korea, in Seoul, and immigrated here at the age of seven with my family.
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a
b
c
d
"CNN TV - Anchors/Reporters:Kyung Lah"
. Retrieved
May 7,
2010
.
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"KNBC staffers fired over affair"
.
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"3 Fired at KNBC | the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education"
. Archived from
the original
on 2014-04-19
. Retrieved
2014-03-28
.
- ^
"Homepage - Global"
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-02-05
. Retrieved
2008-12-04
.
- ^
"
@KyungLahCNN
" on
Twitter
- ^
"Domain games Internet leaves the U.S. nest"
.
CNN
. October 16, 1998.
- ^
"Do men really want to get married?"
.
CNN
. July 8, 2009.
- ^
Lah, Kyung (June 27, 2012).
"CNN's Kyung Lah Leaving Japan"
. Archived from
the original
on 2014-04-17.
External links
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