Choe Sang-Hun

In this Korean name, the family name is Choe.
Choe Sang-Hun
Choe Sang-Hun in Seoul, January 2013
Choe Sang-Hun in Seoul, January 2013
Born1962 (age 62–63)
Ulsan, South Korea
OccupationJournalist
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materYeungnam University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Notable worksCoverage of No Gun Ri Massacre
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2000

Choe Sang-Hun (Korean: 최상훈, born 1962) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning South Korean journalist [1][2] and Seoul Bureau Chief for The New York Times.[3]

Early life

Choe was born in Ulju County, Ulsan in southern South Korea. He received a B.A. in Economics from Yeungnam University and a master's degree in interpretation and translation from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul.[4]

Career

Choe began his journalism career as a political reporter at The Korea Herald, an English-language daily. He joined the Associated Press's Seoul Bureau in 1994 and covered natural disasters, North Korea and 1997 Asian financial crisis.[4]

In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reporting along with Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza for uncovering the massacre of Korean civilians by U.S. soldiers at the No Gun Ri bridge during the Korean War.[5] The series of investigative reports they produced on the No Gun Ri Massacre and similar incidents during the Korean War, published between September and December 1999, helped trigger broader private and government-sponsored investigations of wartime atrocities. He was the first Korean to receive a Pulitzer Prize.[6]

He joined The New York Times (then the International Herald Tribune) in 2005 as its Korea Correspondent. He covered Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008 with four other reporters from the International Herald Tribune, winning awards, including Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia.[7] In 2018, Choe was a member of the team of New York Times reporters who won the Overseas Press Club's Bob Considine Award for best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs for its coverage of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.[8]

He was a 2010–2011 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.[9]

Awards

Works

  • Hanley, Charles J.; Choe, Sang-Hun; Mendoza, Martha (2001), The Bridge at No Gun Ri: a hidden nightmare from the Korean War, New York: Henry Holt and Co., ISBN 978-0-8050-6658-6, OCLC 46872329
  • Choe, Sang-Hun; Torchia, Christopher (2002), How Korean Talk: A Collection of Expressions, Seoul: Unhengnamu, ISBN 978-8-9879-7695-2, OCLC 820945501
  • Kirk, Donald; Choe, Sang-Hun (2006), Korea Witness: 135 years of war, crisis and news in the land of the morning calm, Seoul: Eunhaeng Namu, ISBN 978-89-5660-155-7, OCLC 708318187
  • Choe, Sang-Hun; Torchia, Christopher (2006), Looking for Mr. Kim in Seoul: a guide to Korean expressions, New York: Infini Press, ISBN 978-1-932457-03-2, OCLC 123193849

References

  1. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes (22 April 2000), Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza of Associated Press, retrieved 19 May 2020
  2. ^ 권은중 (14 October 1999), "인터뷰: 노근리사건 보도 최상훈 AP통신 서울지국 기자 — Interview: AP Seoul correspondent Choe Sang-Hun, who reported on the No Gun Ri Incident", Media Today, retrieved 25 July 2011
  3. ^ "Choe Sang-Hun". The New York Times. 18 May 2020. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Biography: Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza", The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting, retrieved 25 July 2011
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  6. ^ "2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner "Investigative Reporting"", Pulitzer Prize, retrieved 9 September 2013
  7. ^ "International Herald Tribune Team Wins Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize for Courageous Reporting of Cyclone Nargis", Asia Society, retrieved 18 May 2020
  8. ^ "Awards Recipients", Overseas Press Club, retrieved 18 May 2020
  9. ^ Sang-Hun Choe named Korean Studies Program's Koret Fellow, Stanford University, 12 August 2010, retrieved 25 July 2011
  10. ^ "Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism", Worth Bingham Prize, retrieved 19 May 2020
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  13. ^ "1999 George Polk Award Winner International Reporting", George Polk Awards, retrieved 18 May 2020
  14. ^ "Daniel Pearl Awards 2000 Winner", International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 16 October 2017, retrieved 18 May 2020
  15. ^ "Associated Press Team Wins Top $15,000 SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Prize for Investigation of Korean War Killing of Civilians by U.S. Troops", Johns Hopkins University, retrieved 19 May 2020
  16. ^ "The 12th Annual Human Rights Press Awards 2007 Organized by Amnesty International Hong Kong, The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Journalists Association", Human Rights Press Awards Winners, archived from the original on 18 October 2021, retrieved 18 May 2020
  17. ^ "International Herald Tribune Team Wins Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize for Courageous Reporting of Cyclone Nargis", Asia Society, retrieved 19 May 2020
  18. ^ "Awards Recipients", Overseas Press Club, retrieved 19 May 2020