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Erik: What motivated you to apply your international economics degree from John Hopkins University
to a career in broadcast news and journalism?
Kyung: My first job out of grad school was working at international development at the
World Bank. And it was through that experience that I really got a first hand understanding
of the development challenges that poor countries face and it was really interesting work. But
it also made me realize that I wanted to be out there more in the field rather than starting
my career in a larger beurocratic kind of environment. So I actually made a career change
and to go into the field of journalism and move to New York for that. I found out in
hindsight that New York was probably the last place I should have move to being the number
one market, but if I had had anyone giving me advise I wouldn’t have done that. But
it turned out to be a good move for me because I wound up starting as a production assistant
in the Fox 5 newsroom, which at the time - and this is going back some years, was a
real fledgling network one where there were many opportunities for an ambitious and hungry
kind of fledgling reporter and so that’s how I made that move.