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 Korean actor Song Jae-lim dead at 39
Nov 13, 2024
South Korean actor Song Jae-lim, a former model who rose to prominence in K-dramas, was found dead in Seoul on Tuesday. He was 39.
South Korean president takes up golf again to prepare for Trump’s second term
Nov 12, 2024
As countries around the globe prepare for a second Trump presidency, one world leader is teeing up a carefully calibrated diplomatic strategy.
Are North Koreans fighting in Ukraine? Here’s what we know
Oct 25, 2024
There is growing intelligence that North Korea has been readying itself for a more direct role in Russia’s war in Ukraine, a move that could reverberate far beyond the frontlines of the war raging in Europe.
North Korea sends 1,500 troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency says
Oct 19, 2024
North Korea has shipped 1,500 soldiers to Russia for training, South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday, describing the move as the first step in the secretive state’s military involvement in Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
North Korea blows up roads near border with South after warning it would completely cut ties
Oct 15, 2024
North Korea blew up parts of two major roads connected to the southern part of the peninsula on Tuesday, South Korean authorities said, after Pyongyang warned it would take steps to completely cut off its territory from the South.
After shooting to newfound internet stardom, Kim Ye-ji insists that ‘nothing has changed much’ since the Olympics
Oct 14, 2024
One might picture a customized velvet-lined box as a safe and worthy place to store a first Olympic medal, but not Kim Ye-ji. The impossibly cool shooter randomly dug up her silver medal from the bottom of her backpack.
North Korea to cut off road and rail links to South Korea
Oct 9, 2024
North Korea’s army said it will take the “substantial military step” of completely cutting off its territory from South Korea on Wednesday, after months of fortifying its heavily armed border.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un threatens to destroy the South with nuclear weapons if provoked
Oct 4, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy South Korea if attacked, state media reported Friday, after South Korea’s president warned that if the North used nuclear weapons it would “face the end of its regime.”
A North Korean defector who struggled in South Korea stole a bus and tried to drive across the border, police say
Oct 3, 2024
A North Korean defector who escaped to the South more than a decade ago was detained after attempting to cross back into North Korea on a stolen bus, police said.
North Korea releases images of Kim Jong Un visiting a uranium enrichment site, giving rare glimpse inside its nuclear program
Sep 14, 2024
New pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un touring what state media said is a uranium enrichment facility have given an extremely rare glimpse inside the isolated nation’s closely guarded nuclear weapons program.
South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children
Sep 13, 2024
South Korea has for decades been known as the world’s largest “baby exporter” – sending hundreds of thousands of children overseas after the country was ravaged by war and many mothers left destitute.
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Pharrell on how luxury collectors have changed: ‘They’re walking in Yeezys’
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Sep 6, 2024
Speaking to CNN in Seoul, where he’s hosting a sale of K-pop star G-Dragon’s prized possessions, Pharrell reflects on how a new generation of collectors has “transformed” the auction market.
It’s Texas 60 miles from North Korea: the US military’s largest overseas base
Sep 2, 2024
Rock stars get to see more of the world than most of us, but when members of the quintessential 2000s’ rock band Hoobastank jetted into the US military base of Camp Humphreys in South Korea, they were struck by the familiarity.
North Korea claims it’s sending 250 new missile launchers toward the South Korean border
Aug 5, 2024
North Korea claims it is sending 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers toward its border with South Korea, in the latest bellicose declaration by leader Kim Jong Un against its neighbor.
North Korea’s trash balloons fall near South’s presidential office
Jul 24, 2024
Trash-laden North Korean balloons were found on the grounds of South Korea’s presidential office compound, officials said Wednesday, the latest in a series of incidents that have raised tensions and rhetoric on the Korean Peninsula.
Former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry indicted on charges of secretly working for South Korea
Jul 17, 2024
A prominent expert on North Korea and former CIA analyst has been indicted by a New York grand jury on charges of secretly working for the South Korean government in exchange for designer goods, Michelin star meals and $37,000 for a fund that she controlled.
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.
