Yoonjung Seo - Producer
Yoonjung Seo
Producer
Yoonjung Seo is a producer for CNN based at the network's Seoul bureau.
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South Koreans mourn as country’s first celebrity panda, Fu Bao, heads to China
Mar 12, 2024
Ever since her 2020 birth, Fu Bao has been one of South Korea’s biggest celebrities,fans eagerly following every milestone of her life at Everland Resort’s Panda World, a theme park in Yongin city.
She fled North Korea but was sold to a man in China. Her second escape came nearly 20 years later.
Mar 9, 2024
She fled North Korea as a teenager – only to be trafficked into China’s black market for brides.
Pop star apologizes to fans after relationship reveal sparks backlash
Mar 7, 2024
News of Karina’s relationship with actor Lee Jae-wook sparked shock and fury among some hardcore fans. Now she’s said sorry.
North Korean factories making arms for Russia are ‘operating at full capacity,’ South Korea says
Feb 28, 2024
North Korea’s munitions factories are “operating at full capacity” to produce weapons and shells for Russia, according to South Korea’s defense minister, as Moscow’s devastating war in Ukraine grinds into a third year.
South Korea records record number of Russians seeking asylum
Feb 26, 2024
A record number of Russians are seeking asylum in South Korea, according to South Korean authorities, with applications surging fivefold last year as Russians became the largest group seeking refuge in the East Asian country.
South Korea captain Son Heung-min asks fans to forgive Lee Kang-in after Asian Cup brawl
Feb 21, 2024
Paris Saint-Germain’s Lee Kang-in says he apologized to Tottenham’s Son Heung-min in person after a brawl took place between them at the Asian Cup this month.
Putin gifts car to Kim Jong Un in sign of ‘special personal relations,’ North Korean state media reports
Feb 20, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented a car to his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media said Tuesday, in another sign of warming ties between the two countries that have raised concerns in the United States.
South Korea jails former hero pastor for sexually abusing North Korean teenage defectors
Feb 20, 2024
A South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for helping North Korean defectors escape to safety has been jailed for sexually abusing minors.
South Korea fires national team soccer coach after star Son Heung-min’s brawl with teammate
Feb 16, 2024
The coach of the South Korean national soccer team has been fired in the wake of a brawl between star player and captain Son Heung-min and midfielder Lee Kang-in before the team’s disastrous Asian Cup exit.
3 former police officers sentenced for destroying Halloween crowd crush evidence
Feb 15, 2024
Three former police officers were sentenced in a Seoul court on Wednesday for destroying evidence related to the deadly Halloween crowd crush in the city’s Itaewon neighborhood in 2022.
How a Dior bag shook South Korean politics
Feb 10, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is months out from a crucial election seen as a barometer of his mid-term popularity, but surveys show he has a big problem – the latest scandal surrounding his wife.
Rare footage shows North Korean teens punished for watching South Korean dramas, research group claims
Jan 24, 2024
A South Korean research group has released rare footage that it claims shows North Korean teenagers sentenced to hard labor for watching and distributing K-dramas – which are banned in the hermit nation.
Seoul police chief indicted for negligence over Itaewon Halloween crush
Jan 22, 2024
Seoul’s police chief has been indicted for negligence over the 2022 crowd crush that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in the popular Itaewon neighborhood that left the nation reeling.
North Korea claims another successful test of its hypersonic glide missile tech
Jan 15, 2024
North Korea on Monday claimed to have again tested a missile that could become one of the world’s fastest and most accurate weapons – with the potential to ultimately be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
South Korea passes bill to ban eating dog meat, ending controversial practice as consumer habits change
Jan 9, 2024
South Korea’s parliament passed a bill Tuesday banning the breeding and slaughter of dogs for consumption, ending the traditional yet controversial practice of eating dog meat after years of nationwide debate.
About
Yoonjung Seo is a producer for CNN based at the network’s Seoul bureau.
Since joining CNN in 2018, she has taken a lead role in CNN’s coverage of three inter-Korean summits, two historic US-North Korea summits in Singapore and Hanoi and a trilateral meeting of the leaders of the US and the Koreas at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone.
Prior to CNN, Seo spent seven years at the Washington Post where she secured a number of exclusives and features, such as tracking down and interviewing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s aunt and uncle in New York and the digital special “Life under Kim Jong Un” which documented the stories of more than a dozen North Korean defectors.
Seo graduated from Seoul Women’s University majoring in German Language and Literature.
