Hyun-Kyung Kim was born in Seoul in 1964 and has been working as a journalist at MBC, one of the major Korean Broadcasting companies, for 33 years. She spent most of her career as a correspondent for the Ministry of Unification of the ROK and a professional reporter on North Korean affairs, also working as the producer and anchor for a North Korea-focused TV program named 'Observatory for Reunification’ of MBC TV. She now is in charge of program producing and initiating joint programs with North Korea as a Managing Director at the Unification Broadcasting Center, MBC. She has accumulated accomplishments in the coverage, research, and analysis on subjects like the inter-Korean summits and exchanges, US-North Korea relations, North Korean nuclear strategy, power and social phenomenon, media, and so on. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "From Preparation to Execution: Discourse Strategy over Kim Jong Un’s Succession in North Korea”