Kyung Lah Biography
Kyung Lah is a Korean-American journalist working as a Senior National Correspondent for CNN based in Los Angeles. She joined the station in 2005.
How old is Kyung Lah? – Age
She is 50 years old as of 27 August 2021. She was born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. Her real name is Kyung I. Lah.
Kyung Lah Family – Education
Lah grew up in Streamwood, Illinois, and was born in Seoul, South Korea. Lah attended Hoffman Estates High School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, and graduated in 1989. In 1993, she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. She also contributed to the school’s newspaper, the Daily Illini.
Who is Kyung Lah Husband?
In March 2005, Lah was fired from KNBC-TV in Los Angeles for allegedly having an affair with her field producer Jeff Soto. At the time, they were both married, and Lah’s husband worked for NBC in the Los Angeles area.
Kyung Lah Net Worth
Kyung has an estimated net worth of $100 Million.
Kyung Lah Salary
She earns an annual salary of around $57,768.
Kyung Lah CNN – Career
Lah has been assigned to cover Senators Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar in the Democratic presidential nomination race for 2020. Prior to that, she reported on the political and cultural ramifications of the 2018 surge of female candidates for US Congress. She’s still one of the political correspondents covering the 2020 election, but she’s also been covering the breaking news of COVID-19 in the Western region, as well as the pandemic’s national economic implications.
Lah has also covered the major US and global events in the last decade, including the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 11 by Ukraine. Lah has covered the tensions with North Korea from the Republic of Korea and Japan, thanks to her knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region. Lah worked as CNN’s Tokyo correspondent before returning to the United States.
When the 9.0 earthquake struck Japan in March 2011, Lah was in Tokyo. She stayed in Japan to report on the 15,000 people killed in the tsunami and the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, the triple meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. At the one-year anniversary of the disaster, she was the first US broadcast journalist to be taken inside the meltdown.
Lah has reported extensively from China, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Pakistan, covering stories of conflict and human struggle. Lah has spoken with a number of Japanese prime ministers as well as Chinese and Pakistani leaders. Lah previously worked for CNN Newsource as a national correspondent based in Washington, D.C., where she covered live breaking news events from the nation’s capital for over 800 CNN Newsource partner stations.