Nieman Fellowship in Journalism

Voting officially closed at 6 p.m. for Korea’s April 13 general elections, but 30 minutes earlier, I received the early exit poll results from a joint poll conducted among three major national networks including my company, MBC, where I head the evening news desk. The poll surveyed 800,000 voters in 2,600 balloting stations across the country. As w… Read more

Veteran Korean journalist Seung Ryun Kim, assistant editor at Channel A’s political desk, prime-time host, and 2014-15 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, recently visited Asia Foundation headquarters in San Francisco. Kim is the 27th Asian journalist sponsored by The Asia Foundation for this fellowship program since 1956.

Prominent Korean journalist and 2015 Harvard Nieman Fellow, Seung Ryun Kim, will speak and take questions at Asia Foundation headquarters in San Francisco on February 26.  Formerly a print journalist with the Dong-A Ilbo daily, Kim is now assistant editor on Channel A’s political desk and hosts a daily show and a Sunday evening show in prime-time…. Read more

The inauguration ceremony of South Korea’s new president, Park Geun-hye, was held on February 25 with mixed feelings among Koreans about her election. She is the daughter of the controversial former president, Park Chung Hee…