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Kyung Jin LeeKJL

Kyung Jin Lee

The World
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.
Global Politics
This North Korean defector dreams of being a real estate developer
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.
Culture
Koreatown’s ‘ghostbusters’ usher in good luck for the Year of the Goat
Fan death theories are so ubiquitous they've turned up as logos on t-shirts.
Culture
Why every Korean kid knows not to keep the fan on over night