Choe Sang-Hun
Choe Sang-Hun | |
|---|---|
 Choe Sang-Hun in Seoul, January 2013 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Ulsan,South Korea |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Alma mater | Yeungnam University,Hankuk University of Foreign Studies |
| Notable works | Coverage ofNo Gun Ri Massacre |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reportingin 2000 |
Choe Sang-Hun(Korean:최상훈,born 1962) is aPulitzer Prize-winningSouth Koreanjournalist[1][2]and Seoul Bureau Chief forThe New York Times.[3]
Early life[edit]
Choe was born inUlju County,Ulsanin southernSouth Korea.He received a B.A. in Economics fromYeungnam Universityand a master's degree in interpretation and translation from theHankuk University of Foreign StudiesinSeoul.[4]
Career[edit]
Choe began his journalism career as a political reporter atThe Korea Herald,an English-language daily. He joined theAssociated Press's Seoul Bureau in 1994 and covered natural disasters, North Korea and1997 Asian financial crisis.[4]
In 2000, he won thePulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reportingalong withCharles J. HanleyandMartha Mendozafor uncovering the massacre of Korean civilians by U.S. soldiers at the No Gun Ri bridge during theKorean War.[5]The series of investigative reports they produced on theNo Gun Ri Massacreand similar incidents during the Korean War, published between September and December 1999, helped trigger broader private and government-sponsored investigations of wartime atrocities. He was the first Korean to receive a Pulitzer Prize.[6]
He joinedThe New York Times(then theInternational Herald Tribune) in 2005 as its Korea Correspondent. He coveredCyclone Nargisin Myanmar in 2008 with four other reporters from the International Herald Tribune, winning awards, includingAsia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia.[7]In 2018, Choe was a member of the team of New York Times reporters who won theOverseas Press Club's Bob Considine Award for best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs for its coverage of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.[8]
He was a 2010–2011 Koret Fellow in the Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. ShorensteinAsia-Pacific Research Center,part ofStanford University'sFreeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.[9]
Awards[edit]
- 1999Worth Bingham Prize[10]
- 1999Overseas Press Club's Madeline Dane Ross Award[11]
- 2000Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting[12]
- 2000George Polk Awards[13]
- 2000International Consortium of Investigative JournalistsAward[14]
- 2000 Johns Hopkins University SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award[15]
- 2007 Human Rights Press Awards[16]
- 2009Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism[17]
- 2018Overseas Press Club's Bob Considine Award[18]
Works[edit]
- 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.,ISBN978-0-8050-6658-6,OCLC46872329
- Choe, Sang-Hun; Torchia, Christopher (2002),How Korean Talk: A Collection of Expressions,Seoul: Unhengnamu,ISBN978-8-9879-7695-2,OCLC820945501
- 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,ISBN978-89-5660-155-7,OCLC708318187
- Choe, Sang-Hun; Torchia, Christopher (2006),Looking for Mr. Kim in Seoul: a guide to Korean expressions,New York: Infini Press,ISBN978-1-932457-03-2,OCLC123193849
References[edit]
- ^The Pulitzer Prizes (22 April 2000),Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza of Associated Press,retrieved19 May2020
- ^권은중 (14 October 1999),"인터뷰: 노근리사건 보도 최상훈 AP통신 서울지국 기자 — Interview: AP Seoul correspondent Choe Sang-Hun, who reported on the No Gun Ri Incident",Media Today,retrieved25 July2011
- ^"Choe Sang-Hun".The New York Times.18 May 2020.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved18 May2020.
- ^ab"Biography: Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza",The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting,retrieved25 July2011
- ^The Pulitzer Prizes (22 April 2000),Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza of Associated Press,retrieved24 October2017
- ^"2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner" Investigative Reporting "",Pulitzer Prize,retrieved9 September2013
- ^"International Herald Tribune Team Wins Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize for Courageous Reporting of Cyclone Nargis",Asia Society,retrieved18 May2020
- ^"Awards Recipients",Overseas Press Club,retrieved18 May2020
- ^Sang-Hun Choe named Korean Studies Program's Koret Fellow,Stanford University, 12 August 2010,retrieved25 July2011
- ^"Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism",Worth Bingham Prize,retrieved19 May2020
- ^"Awards Recipients",Overseas Press Club,retrieved19 May2020
- ^"2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner" Investigative Reporting "",Pulitzer Prize,retrieved18 May2020
- ^"1999 George Polk Award Winner International Reporting",George Polk Awards,retrieved18 May2020
- ^"Daniel Pearl Awards 2000 Winner",International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,16 October 2017,retrieved18 May2020
- ^"Associated Press Team Wins Top $15,000 SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Prize for Investigation of Korean War Killing of Civilians by U.S. Troops",Johns Hopkins University,retrieved19 May2020
- ^"The 12th Annual Human Rights Press Awards 2007 Organized by Amnesty International Hong Kong, The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Journalists Association",Human Rights Press Awards Winners,archived fromthe originalon 18 October 2021,retrieved18 May2020
- ^"International Herald Tribune Team Wins Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize for Courageous Reporting of Cyclone Nargis",Asia Society,retrieved19 May2020
- ^"Awards Recipients",Overseas Press Club,retrieved19 May2020
