Speaker
MOON Jennifer
Affliation
Arirang TV
Title
Principal Anchor & Chief Editor
Session

Biography

Jennifer Moon is Chief Editor and Principal Anchor at Arirang TV, one of Korea’s leading global broadcasters. She was the network’s chief presidential office correspondent for the first 18 months of the Moon Jae-in administration and led Arirang News’ special reports, breaking news, and primetime political coverage. As an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, Moon is known for her outstanding work in the field, reporting/anchoring from breaking news events across the world. In Feb. 2017, she interviewed a senior North Korean defector and broke rare access to the heavily militarized inter-Korean border. She is the only Korean journalist to have hosted a TV debate for the WEF in Davos; Moon has hosted major global events such as the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the Nuclear Security Summit, and AIIB. Her work has been recognized with global journalism and human rights awards for documentaries, “Comfort Women” One Last Cry, “Smart with Heart”: The Human Face of the 4th Industrial Revolution, and “The Day, 64 Years Too Late.” Moon holds an M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University and an Honors B.A. in Int'l Relations and Political Science from the University of Toronto. She started her professional career at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria.