Choe Sang-hun

Choe Sang-hun (Korean: 최상훈, born 1964) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning South Korean journalist.^[1]

Early life

Choe was born in Ulju-gun, Ulsan in southern South Korea. He graduated from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul.^[2]

Career

Choe began his journalism career as a political reporter at The Korea Herald, an English-language daily. He joined the Associated Press' Seoul Bureau in 1994.^[2] While a correspondent there he won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for bringing to light the decades-old No Gun Ri Massacre.^[3] He was the second person of Korean descent to receive a Pulitzer Prize, following Gang Hyeong-won.^[4] He later moved to the International Herald Tribune.^[when?]

In 2010, he was named as the 2010–2011 academic year 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.^[5]

Selected 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 9780805066586, OCLC 46872329 
• 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 9788956601557, OCLC 708318187 
• Choe, Sang-Hun; Torchia, Christopher (2006), Looking for Mr. Kim in Seoul: a guide to Korean expressions, New York: Infini Press, ISBN 9781932457032, OCLC 123193849 

References

1. ^ 권은중 (1999-10-14), "인터뷰: 노근리사건 보도 최상훈 AP통신 서울지국 기자 — Interview: AP Seoul correspondent Choe Sang-hun, who reported on the No Gun Ri Incident", Media Today, http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=895, retrieved 2011-07-25 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Biography: Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza", The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting, http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2000-Investigative-Reporting, retrieved 2011-07-25 
3. ^ 우상표 (2000-04-22), "AP 최상훈기자 퓰리처상 수상 — AP reporter Choe Sang-hun awarded Pulitzer Prize", Yongin Simin Sinmun, http://www.yongin21.co.kr/news/quickViewArticleView.html?idxno=1341, retrieved 2011-07-25 
4. ^ "한인 기자 네번째 '퓰리처상' 수상 — Fourth Korean reporter awarded Pulitzer Prize", Hankook Ilbo, 2011-04-19, http://economy.hankooki.com/lpage/worldecono/201104/e20110419181400117900.htm, retrieved 2011-07-25 
5. ^ Sang-Hun Choe named Korean Studies Program’s Koret Fellow, Stanford University, 2010-08-12, http://news.stanford.edu/thedish/?p=8447, retrieved 2011-07-25 

External links

• Home page at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• Author index at The New York Times

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Name	Choe, Sang-Hun
Alternative names
Short description	Journalist
Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	Ulju-gun, Ulsan, South Korea
Date of death
Place of death