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Announcement from Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl and Acting Deputy Foreign Editor Susan Levine and Seoul Center Editor Kendra Nichols:<\/p>\n
We are very pleased to announce that Kelly Kasulis Cho will be joining The Post as a reporter and breaking news editor in our Seoul hub.<\/p>\n
Kelly will be part of a rapidly expanding team covering the most pressing and interesting stories breaking anywhere in the world during Asia Day. The Seoul hub is part of a 24-hour relay where responsibilities are handed off from Seoul to London to Washington to ensure the delivery of timely and quality coverage to our global audience 24 hours a day .<\/p>\n
These breaking news hubs have become an integral part of The Post’s newsroom since its launch a year ago. Kelly joins us as part of an expansion that will see the Seoul and London operations grow by 40 percent this year, to 14 full-time employees at each location. She will work primarily as a reporter, but will occasionally move into an editing role.<\/p>\n
Kelly is currently a staff editor at The New York Times in Seoul, where she works on the homepage, newsletters, and push alerts. She previously worked as editor-in-chief and reporter for NK News, an independent news organization covering North Korea, and as a freelance foreign correspondent covering the Koreas for various news organizations including Public Radio International, BBC World Service and Bloomberg BNA.<\/p>\n
She began her career as digital editor for the GroundTruth Project and as a contributor to the Boston Globe, where she wrote a weekly science column and helped cover Asian American issues. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and spent four years as a fellow through the Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media, with a placement at NBC Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Kelly grew up in the United States but has been living in Seoul since 2017; she speaks korean Please welcome Kelly who will be starting in downtown Seoul on September 19th.<\/p>\n