Yoonjung Seo - Producer
Yoonjung Seo
Producer
Yoonjung Seo is a producer for CNN based at the network's Seoul bureau.
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The Asian Games’ golden ticket: South Korea’s esports stars target medal success – and a military exemption
Sep 29, 2023
Gaming has achieved an unprecedented milestone by being selected as an official medal sport for the Hangzhou Asian Games in the form of esports, but participating in the competition holds significant importance – and possibly life-changing implications – for some players.
Russia gives Kim Jong Un an inside look at its warplanes and frigates
Sep 17, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected warplanes, toured an airfield and visited a Pacific Fleet frigate on Saturday as the latest stop on his tour of Russia took him to Vladivostok.
South Korea’s Hynix is looking into how its chips got into Huawei’s controversial smartphone
Sep 08, 2023
SK Hynix, a South Korean chipmaker, is investigating how two of its memory chips mysteriously ended up inside the Mate 60 Pro, a controversial smartphone launched by Huawei last week.
South Korean teachers hold mass protests after suicide highlights pressures from parents
Sep 05, 2023
Hundreds of thousands of teachers are protesting in South Korea after the suspected suicide of a teacher that was widely blamed on the burden on educators in a country notorious for its high-pressure education system.
‘We can do it too’: Meet Blackswan, the K-pop group with no Korean members
Aug 25, 2023
Cheers ring out as the four women take to the stage and launch into a synchronized dance routine in front of giant speakers blasting music.
North Korea says its spy satellite launch has failed, again
Aug 24, 2023
North Korea’s second attempt to launch a spy satellite into orbit failed Thursday due to a malfunction in the third-stage of the rocket, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
Suspected Chinese dissident rides jet ski hundreds of miles to South Korea
Aug 23, 2023
A jet ski rider detained by South Korea for allegedly entering the country illegally is a prominent Chinese dissident who rode hundreds of miles across the sea to escape from China, activists say.
Kim Jong Un inspects missile test as regional rivals meet and kick off joint military drills
Aug 21, 2023
North Korean state media released images of leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a missile test on Monday, days after its regional rivals held a historic summit, and as US-South Korea joint military exercises kick off nearby.
North Korea-Russia flights due to take off for first time since the pandemic
Aug 21, 2023
Flights between North Korea and Russia have resumed for the first time since 2020.
Kim Jong Un fires top general, orders North Korean military to ‘gird for war’
Aug 11, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his top general amid a shakeup of the country’s military leadership and wants his army to “gird for a war,” state media reported Thursday.
US soldier who crossed into North Korea has history of assault and detention
Jul 20, 2023
New details have emerged about a US soldier who crossed into North Korea on Tuesday – but his exact whereabouts remain a mystery since the secretive country hasn’t said a word about the incident.
North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles, says South Korea
Jul 19, 2023
North Korea has launched two short-range ballistic missiles, which landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
Nuclear capable US submarine makes first port call in South Korea in four decades
Jul 18, 2023
For the first time in decades, a nuclear capable US Navy ballistic missile submarine has made a port call in South Korea, in a move that comes just days after North Korea test-fired what it said was a solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile.
Inside the school teaching North Korean defectors how to live in the outside world
Jul 16, 2023
This school is supposed to prepare North Korean defectors for the real world. But some say it does little to help – and the system needs an overhaul.
North Korea said it fired a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday
Jul 13, 2023
North Korea said that the intercontinental ballistic missile it launched on Wednesday, which flew for more than 70 minutes, was a Hwasong-18, marking a potential new round of confrontation with Washington and its allies.
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.