Bae Hyun-jin (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...

: 배현진; born 6 November 1983) is a South Korean broadcaster and politician. Prior to entering politics, she was the anchor for

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC; ) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasters. ''Munhwa'' is the Sino-Korean word for "culture". Its flagship terrestrial television station MBC TV broadcasts as channel 11. Es ...

(MBC), based in Seoul, South Korea.

Career

Bae graduated from

Sookmyung Women's University Sookmyung Women’s University () is a private university in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1906, Sookmyung is Korea’s first royal private educational institution for women. The university's name is derived from the Hanja charact ...

's Seoul campus with a degree in Communications and Korean Language and Literature after graduating from Dongsan High School in

Ansan Ansan (Hangeul: , ) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It lies southwest of Seoul and is part of the Seoul National Capital Area. It is connected to Seoul by rail via Seoul Subway Line 4. It is situated on the Yellow Sea coast and so ...

Gyeonggi-do Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

, Korea. She won the silver prize at the Sookmyung Speech Contest and Speaker prize at the University Student Speech Contest in 2007 when she was a university student. She also worked as a public relations model for

during her school days. She was picked up by MBC in November 2008 among 1,926 competitors and began presenting news updates for the 5 p.m. MBC News in 2009. Bae's career at MBC began in November 2009, presenting late news updates in MBC News programs and delivering error corrections in Korean in the MBC TV program "우리말 나들이" (roughly: "A Visit to Our Language"). She has presented one-off events such as the ''

Guangzhou Asian Games The 2010 Asian Games (), officially known as the XVI Asian Games () and also known as Guangzhou 2010 (), was a regional multi-sport event celebrated from November 12 to November 27, 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, although several events ...

'' as a newscaster in 2010. She also was an MC for the MBC TV debate program, ''100 Minute Debate'' (100분토론), and MBC radio program, ''Bae Hyun-jin's World City Travels'' (배현진의 세계도시여행), which features world-famous cities, in 2010. She sometimes appears in entertainment TV programs such as ''Three Wheels'' (세바퀴) and ''

Infinite Challenge ''Infinite Challenge'' (; abbreviated as ''Mudo'') is a South Korean television entertainment program, distributed and syndicated by MBC, that ran from 2005 to 2018. As of January 2013, it had the largest market share for its timeslot; with ...

'' (무한도전). She has been a main anchor with Kwon Jae-hong for ''MBC News Desk'' in the place of announcer Lee Jung-min since 8 April 2011. Although she has had a short career as an anchor, she responded calmly when Kwon Jae-hong abruptly left in the middle of a program because of a sudden headache 27 July 2011.

Personal life

Recently she appeared in the TV show ''Infinite Challenge'' (무한도전) as a special guest to teach Korean, and she said she has never had a boyfriend. In the

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she is a Scorpio, and she is a

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according to the

Chinese zodiac The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remain ...

, which is related with her birth

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. She enjoys

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, reading and

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as her hobbies.

Electoral history

References

MBC announcer introduction page
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