Choe Sang-Hun ( ko, 최상훈, born 1962) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning

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n journalist and Seoul Bureau Chief for ''

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Early life

Choe was born in

Ulju County Ulju County ( ko, 울주군; Hanja: 蔚州郡; ''Ulju-gun'') is a county occupying much of western Ulsan, South Korea. Administrative divisions * Beomseo-eup * Eonyang-eup * Onsan-eup *Onyang-eup * Cheongnyang-eup * Dudong-myeon * Duseo-myeon * ...

Ulsan Ulsan (), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring ...

in southern

. He received a B.A. in Economics from Yeungnam University and a master's degree in interpretation and translation from the

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (abbreviated as HUFS; Korean: 한국외국어대학교) is a private research university based in Seoul, in South Korea. HUFS consistently ranks as one of the best universities in South Korea. The university ...

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Career

Choe began his journalism career as a political reporter at ''

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'', an English-language daily. He joined the

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's Seoul Bureau in 1994 and covered natural disasters, North Korea and 1997 Asian financial crisis. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reporting along with Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza for uncovering the massacre of Korean civilians by U.S. soldiers at the No Gun Ri bridge during the

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. The series of investigative reports they produced on the

No Gun Ri Massacre The No Gun Ri massacre () occurred on July 26–29, 1950, early in the Korean War, when an undetermined number of South Korean refugees were killed in a U.S. air attack and by small- and heavy-weapons fire of the American 7th Cavalry Regiment a ...

and similar incidents during the Korean War, published between September and December 1999, helped trigger broader private and government-sponsored investigations of wartime atrocities. He was the first Korean to receive a Pulitzer Prize. He joined ''

'' (then the '' International Herald Tribune'') in 2005 as its Korea Correspondent. He covered Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008 with four other reporters from the International Herald Tribune, winning awards, including Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia. In 2018, Choe was a member of the team of New York Times reporters who won the

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's Bob Considine Award for best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs for its coverage of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. He was a 2010–2011 Koret Fellow in the Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein

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, part of Stanford University's

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Awards

*1999

Worth Bingham Prize The Worth Bingham Prize, also referred to as the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting, is an annual journalism award which honors: "newspaper or magazine investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public inter ...

*1999

's Madeline Dane Ross Award *2000 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting *2000 George Polk Awards *2000

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Award *2000 Johns Hopkins University SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award *2007 Human Rights Press Awards *2009 Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism *2018

's Bob Considine Award

Works

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References

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