Lah was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Streamwood, Illinois, Lah graduated in 1989 from Hoffman Estates High School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
10 Facts About Kyung Lah
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Kyung Lah earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993.
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Kyung Lah was a writer for the school's Daily Illini newspaper.
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Kyung Lah began her career in 1993 as a desk assistant and field producer at WBBM-TV in Chicago.
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In early 2003, Kyung Lah moved to Los Angeles to take a job at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, where she was a morning reporter and a midday anchor.
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The Chicago Sun-Times reported at the time that Kyung Lah had turned down a "half-hearted renewal offer" from WBBM-TV.
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In late 2005, Kyung Lah joined CNN Newsource as a Washington, DC-based correspondent.
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On June 27,2012, Kyung Lah left her post in Japan for a position at the CNN bureau in Los Angeles.
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Kyung Lah has written extensively about Japanese subculture, specializing in men who have married animated characters.
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Kyung Lah has declared that she holds a very strong South Korean identity.