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VIDEO: In the Thick of It – South Korea
On Jan. 29, the OPC hosted a discussion with three journalists who have been on the ground in Seoul to discuss the challenges of covering political turmoil, protests, impeachment and where South Korea goes from here. Click the window above to watch a playlist of video clips from the program.
Panelists were:
Max Kim, the Los Angeles Times correspondent in Seoul. He has written from the area for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, MIT Technology Review and other publications and helped to produce news documentaries for Vice News and the BBC. Kim grew up in Seoul and Princeton, N.J., and graduated from the University of Buffalo with a degree in English and comparative literature.
Chang W. Lee, a Foreign Bureau Photographer for The New York Times, based in Seoul. He was part of the Times staff that won two Pulitzer Prizes in 2002, for breaking news photography coverage of the Sept. 11 attack and for feature photography in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A South Korean born Korean-American, Lee has been a staff photographer at the New York Times since 1994.
Ju-min Park, a Reuters correspondent based in Seoul. She has covered the Korean peninsula since 2012, the same year Kim Jong Un took power in North Korea, and also been based as a senior correspondent in Tokyo, reporting on the pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics, and the surprise resignation and assassination of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Ju-min graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in journalism.
Moderator:
Alan Zarembo, the foreign and national editor for the Los Angeles Times. He has also been a projects and investigative reporter with a focus on medicine, science and the military. Prior to joining The Times in 2003, he was the Mexico City bureau chief for Newsweek magazine and a freelance journalist based in central Africa.
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