Kyung Lah
Kyung I. Lah (born August 27, 1971) is a Tokyo-based international correspondent for CNN.
Early life and education
Born in Seoul 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.
Professional career
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, Lah 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.[3] The Chicago Sun-Times reported at the time that Lah had turned down a "half-hearted (contract) renewal offer" from WBBM-TV.
KNBC scandal
In March 2005, Lah, who was married at the time, was fired from KNBC after her bosses learned that she had been having an affair with married KNBC field producer Jeff Soto. The station also fired Soto and Jim Bunner, a producer and friend of Lah's husband. Bunner was fired because he knew about the affair but didn't tell management about it, and his knowledge of the affair became known by management after he intercepted an incriminating note written by Lah to Soto that eventually got into the hands of management.[4] The station's general manager at the time, Paula Madison, had told employees when she joined the station in 2000 that she had considered romantic relationships involving at least one married staffer to be firing offenses.[5]
Lah's husband at the time, Curtis Vogel, was subsequently reported to have been the one to have complained about the affair, prompting management's investigation of it.[6]
Recent work
In late 2005, Lah joined CNN Newsource as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent.[7]
In November 2007, Lah became CNN's Tokyo-based correspondent.[8]
References
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lah.kyung.html
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lah.kyung.html
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lah.kyung.html
- ^ http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:EVkUmZR7mP4J:www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/050321_prince/+%22Kyung+Lah%22+%22Jeff+Soto%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
- ^ http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:EVkUmZR7mP4J:www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/050321_prince/+%22Kyung+Lah%22+%22Jeff+Soto%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
- ^ http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2005/04/husband_at_chan.php
- ^ http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1136148,00.html
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lah.kyung.html