Speaker
LIM Yun Suk
Affliation
Channel News Asia
Title
Seoul Bureau Chief
Session

Biography

Yun Suk Lim is Senior Correspondent in South Korea for CNA(Channel News Asia), an English-language international news channel that reports on global developments with Asian perspectives. She has more than 30 years of experience in television news reporting and writing for international news agencies, bringing in-depth coverage and analysis of Korean peninsula issues to audiences. Yun Suk started her journalism career by reporting on the 1988 Seoul Olympics after graduating from George Washington University with a BA in International Affairs. She then worked for the English-language Korea Times where she covered social issues across South Korea. Following that, Yun Suk spent several years reporting for news agencies Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
Yun Suk joined CNA in 2000 for her first encounter with TV news, giving international viewers a better understanding of the long-standing conflict on the Korean peninsula. She left briefly to join Bloomberg to cover finance and business stories in South Korea and rejoined CNA in 2006. Yun Suk covered the high-level talks between South and North Korea from the early 1990s and the four-party peace talks in Geneva. She also went to Singapore and Hanoi to report on the historic summit meetings between the United States and North Korea. Yun Suk is one of the few South Korean journalists who report live on TV in English for an international news channel.