| Kyung Lah | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kyung I. Lah August 27, 1971 Seoul, South Korea |
| Residence | Tokyo, Japan |
| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Employer | CNN |
Kyung I. Lah (born August 27, 1971) is a Tokyo-based international correspondent for CNN.
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Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised 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.[1] She also was a writer for the school's Daily Illini newspaper.
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.[1]
In January 2000, she took a job at WBBM-TV in Chicago 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.[1] The Chicago Sun-Times reported at the time that Lah had turned down a "half-hearted (contract) renewal offer" from WBBM-TV.
In late 2005, Lah joined CNN Newsource as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent.[2]
In November 2007, Lah became CNN's Tokyo-based correspondent.[1] A Japanese interpreter always accompanies her.
Lah has declared that she holds a very strong Korean identity. In an interview with Dynamic-Korea, she revealed that she "[thinks] about the larger question of being Korean every single moment." [3]
In March 2005, Kyung Lah and "Today in L.A." producer Jeff Soto were fired for having an affair. Lah was married at the time.[4]
In late September 2011, she went on maternity leave. She returned on December 26.