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Kyung Jin Lee

The World

Kyung Jin Lee is a freelance radio reporter and producer based out of Oakland, California.

Kyung Jin Lee is a freelance radio reporter and producer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lee has a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her work airs on NPR affiliate stations KQED and KALW in San Francisco.

Elise Park, a North Korean living in Los Angeles, dreams of one day returning home. For now she's studying hard at a local community college.

This North Korean defector dreams of being a real estate developer

Global Politics

A North Korean defector living in Los Angeles says South Koreans there ask her too many questions about her past: “I just want to be treated like everyone else.”

Korean grandmas get a surprise drum line performance while waiting for the bus in LA's Koreatown. The drumming celebration is now popular in Los Angeles, but it wasn't so much when it first started there in the late 1980s.

Koreatown’s ‘ghostbusters’ usher in good luck for the Year of the Goat

Culture
Fan death theories are so ubiquitous they've turned up as logos on t-shirts.

Why every Korean kid knows not to keep the fan on over night

Culture
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