Choe Sang-Hun

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Choe Sang-Hun (Korean: 최상훈, born 1964) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning South Korean journalist.[1]

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Early life [edit]

Choe was born in Ulju-gun, Ulsan in southern South Korea. He received a B.A. in Economics from Yeungnam University and a masters degree in interpretation and translation from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul.[2]

Career [edit]

Choe began his journalism career as a political reporter at The Korea Herald, an English-language daily. He joined the Associated Press' Seoul Bureau in 1994.[2] While a correspondent there he won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for bringing to light the decades-old No Gun Ri Massacre.[3] He was the second person of Korean descent to receive a Pulitzer Prize, following Gang Hyeong-won.[4] He later moved to the International Herald Tribune.[when?]

In 2010, he was named as the 2010–2011 academic year Koret Fellow in the Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, part of Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.[5]

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