Kyung Lah

Kyung I. Lah (, ; born August 27, 1971) is a South Korean journalist and correspondent for CNN based in the United States.

Early life and education Lah was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up 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. She was also a writer for the school's Daily Illini newspaper.

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. They were both married at the time and Lah's husband also worked for NBC in the Los Angeles area.

In late 2005, Lah joined CNN Newsource as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent.

In November 2007, Lah became CNN's Tokyo-based correspondent.

Lah has written extensively about Japanese subculture, specializing in men who have married animated characters. As a result, she was criticized by some in the Japanese blogosphere.

Personal life Lah has declared that she holds a very strong South Korean identity. In a 2006 interview with Dynamic-Korea, she revealed that she "[thinks] about the larger question of being Korean every single moment."