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Kyung Lah Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, CNN, Husband, Net Worth, and Twitter

Kyung Lah Biography

Kyung Lah is a South Korean anchor and reporter working for CNN as a Senior Investigative Correspondent. She joined the CNN news team in November 2007, after previously working for KNBC-TV.

Kyung Lah Career

Lah works for CNN as a senior investigative correspondent and is based in Los Angeles. Lah was most recently a senior national correspondent for CNN during the 2024 presidential race. He covered the Iowa caucuses in particular. In the past few years, she has written a lot about the false information about the 2020 presidential election results and the efforts at the state level to confirm those findings. In 2023, the Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Television Political Journalism gave her an award for her work in Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Lah was also on the CNN team that won a Columbia du Pont Award in 2022 for their coverage of the war in Ukraine. Lah wrote about the 2020 presidential race, focused on Sens. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar, who were running for the Democratic nomination at the time. As the US dealt with COVID-19, Lah switched her focus to writing about how the pandemic affected regular Americans’ finances. Her story about a Houston family being kicked out of their home went viral, making the financial problems many people were having more real.

Before that, she talked about how the large number of women running for US Congress in 2018 affected politics and culture. In the past ten years, Lah has written about some of the most important events in the US and around the world. These include the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the disappearance of flight MH370 from Malaysia, and the downing of MH11 from Ukraine. Lah has written about the problems between the Republic of Korea and North Korea from the point of view of the Asia-Pacific area because she knows a lot about it.

Before coming back to CNNUS, Lah worked for CNN as a reporter in Tokyo. Lah was in Tokyo in March 2011 when the 9.0 earthquake hit. She stayed in Japan to cover the deaths of 15,000 people in the tsunami and the triple meltdown at Fukushima, which was the worst nuclear accident in the world in 25 years. It had been a year since the accident, and she was the first US broadcast journalist to be taken inside the meltdown. Moreover, Lah has done a lot of reporting in China, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Pakistan.

Lah has talked to many Japanese prime ministers and leaders from China and Pakistan. She used to work for CNN Newsource as a national reporter based in Washington, DC. More than 1,000 partner stations around the world heard Lah’s report live on breaking news from the nation’s capital. Moreover, Lah received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois.

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Kyung Lah Salary

Lah earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.

Kyung Lah Net Worth

Lah has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a Correspondent.

Kyung Lah Age

Lah was born on August 27, 1971, in Seoul, South Korea. She is 52 years old as of 2023, and she celebrates her birthday on the 27th of August every year.

Kyung Lah Height and Weight

Lah stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall (1.65m) and weighs 55kgs (121 lbs)

Kyung Lah Family

Lah was born in Seoul, South Korea, but grew up in Chicago. Her parents are Richard I. Gangel (father), and Phyllis Gangel-Jacob (mother). Her father Richard owned a Korean grocery store in Chicago. Moreover, Lah was brought up alongside her brother Andrew Lah, a lawyer and an adjunct professor of law

Kyung Lah Husband and Children

Lah is married to Curtis Voger, a television producer and Vice President at Edendale Strategies in Los Angeles, California. Moreover, the couple is blessed with one child who was born in 2011.

Kyung Lah Social Media Platforms

Lah is very active on her Twitter, and Instagram pages. She has 67.8k followers on Twitter and 11.2k followers on Instagram.

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