Suki Kim
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Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Seoul, South Korea |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Barnard College [1] |
Genre | novel, essay |
Notable works | The Interpreter, Without You, There is No Us |
Notable awards | PEN Beyond Margins Award Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award |
Website | |
SukiKim.com |
Suki Kim (born 1970) is a Korean American journalist and writer. She is the author of two books: the award-winning novel The Interpreter and a book of investigative journalism, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite. Kim is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea to conduct immersive journalism.[2] Kim is currently a contributing editor at The New Republic.
Early life
[edit]Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrated to the United States with her family at thirteen.[3] Kim is a naturalized American citizen.
Kim graduated from Barnard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Kim also studied East Asian Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has received a Fulbright Research Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Open Society Foundations Fellowship. Kim was also a Ferris Journalism Fellow at Princeton University, where she was a visiting lecturer.[4][5]
Work
[edit]The Interpreter
[edit]Kim's debut novel, The Interpreter, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2003, is a murder mystery about a young Korean-American woman, Suzy Park, living in New York City and searching for answers as to why her shopkeeper parents were murdered. Kim took a short term job as an interpreter in New York City when working on the novel to look into the life of an interpreter.[6] The book received positive critic reviews[7] and won several awards. The Interpreter was translated into Dutch, French, Korean, Italian, and Japanese.
Visits to North Korea and second book
[edit]Kim visited North Korea in February 2002 to participate in the 60th birthday celebration of Kim Jong-il. She documented this experience in a February 2003 cover essay for The New York Review of Books.[8]
Kim accompanied the New York Philharmonic in February 2008, when they traveled to Pyongyang for the historical cultural visit to North Korea from the United States. Her article, "A Really Big Show: The New York Philharmonic's fantasia in North Korea," was published in Harper's Magazine in December 2008.[9]
Her second book, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite, is a work of investigative journalism about her three and a half months in Pyongyang, where she taught English at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in 2011.[10]
The book has resulted in some controversy, with reviewers claiming that Kim brought harm on the students she wrote about, and that she caused tensions between the university and the North Korean government. The university staff accused Kim of making false claims about them.[11] However, Kim addressed her critics in a June 2016 essay in The New Republic. Kim mentioned the shortcomings of labelling her second book as a memoir and the irony in reviewers dismissing this work for containing the components typically praised in investigative journalism. Kim also described how racism and sexism influenced public views on her expertise.[12] Her publisher subsequently removed the label "memoir" from the cover of Without You, There Is No Us.
Latest work
[edit]In 2017, Suki Kim broke a sexual harassment scandal against John Hockenberry at WNYC in her article in The Cut.[13] Her investigation led to the firing of two longterm WNYC hosts, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz,[14] as well as the eventual resignation of its CEO, Laura Walker,[15] and Chief Content officer, Dean Cappello.[16] Her article was voted as the Best Investigative Reporting of 2017 by Longreads.[17]
In 2020, Kim published an investigative feature in The New Yorker on Free Joseon, a group that has declared itself a provisional government for North Korea, and she was the first to interview the group's leader Adrian Hong while he was on the run from the Department of Justice.[18]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]Year | Title |
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2003 | The Interpreter |
2014 | Without You, There Is No Us; My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite |
Anthologies
[edit]Year | Title | Ref |
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2005 | New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times | |
2017 | The Moth Presents All These Wonders | [19] |
2018 | The Best American Essays 2018 | [20] |
Essays and op-eds
[edit]About North Korea and South Korea
[edit]Year | Title | Publication | Ref |
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2003 | A Visit to North Korea | The New York Review of Books | [21] |
2003 | Korea's New Wave | The New York Times | [22] |
2003 | Strange Centennial | The Boston Globe | |
2005 | Die Ahnen und die Wasser (The Anticipation of the Water) | Neue Zurcher Zeitung | [23] |
2005 | Hwang, Drawn and Quartered? | The Wall Street Journal | [24] |
2006 | Great Leadership | The Wall Street Journal | [25] |
2007 | Asia's Apostles | The Washington Post | [26] |
2007 | Globalizing Grief | The Wall Street Journal | [27] |
2008 | A Really Big Show: The New York Philharmonic’s Fantasia in North Korea | Harper's | [28] |
2009 | Notes from Another Credit Card Crisis | The New York Times | [29] |
2010 | The System of Defecting | Harper's | [30] |
2010 | North Korean Fans Attend the World Cup | Newsweek | [31] |
2013 | The Shared Wound in Korea | The New York Times | [32] |
2013 | The Dear Leader's Heinous Act | The New York Times | [33] |
2014 | The Good Student in North Korea | The New York Times Magazine | [34] |
2014 | My Time at an Elite Pyongyang Boarding School | Foreign Affairs | [35] |
2014 | Teaching Essay Writing in Pyongyang | Slate | [36] |
2014 | The Sony Hack Is North Korea's Biggest Victory in a Long Time | Slate | [37] |
2014 | Dear Leader's Great Victory | The National Post | [38] |
2014 | The Secret Shame of North Korea's Slave Workers | Newsweek | [39] |
2015 | What ‘The Interview’ Gets Right and Wrong about US Policy Toward North Korea | The Nation | [40] |
2016 | Is it Time to Intervene in North Korea? | The New Republic | [41] |
2016 | Republic of Disappointment. | Slate | [42] |
2016 | Across the Broken Bridge | The New Republic | [43] |
2016 | Korean Reporters Got Fired, Got Active, and Got The President | Foreign Policy | [44] |
2017 | The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam's Murder | The Atlantic | [45] |
2017 | An Extraordinary Statement from a North Korean Prince | The New Yorker | [46] |
2017 | Is Christian Evangelicals’ Money Helping to Prop Up North Korea’s Regime? | The Washington Post | [47] |
2017 | Tourism to North Korea isn’t about engagement. It’s torture porn. | The Washington Post | [48] |
2017 | My two messed-up countries: an immigrant’s dilemma | The Guardian | [49] |
2017 | South Korea Is More Worried About Donald Trump Than Kim Jong Un | Foreign Policy | [50] |
2018 | The Dealmaker | The New Republic | [51] |
2018 | Covering the North Korea Summit While Trapped in a Warehouse in Singapore | The New Yorker | [52] |
2018 | North Korea’s Lipstick Diplomacy | The New York Times | [53] |
2020 | How South Korea Lost Control of Its Coronavirus Outbreak | The New Yorker | [54] |
2020 | The Underground Movement Trying To Topple the North Korean Regime | The New Yorker | [55] |
Other work
[edit]Year | Title | Publication | Ref |
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2003 | Translating Poverty and Pain | The New York Times | [56] |
2003 | Marriage of Inconvenience? | The New York Times | [57] |
2003 | North Ride Home | Gourmet | |
2004 | Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habits | The New York Times | [58] |
2006 | Our Affair Was One Long Lesson in How to Break Up | The New York Times | [59] |
2010 | Forced from Home and Yet Never Free of it | The New York Times | [60] |
2015 | Love Stories: Why I Flew to Beijing in Search of the Perfect Dress | Vogue | [61] |
2016 | Mr Rubio's Neighborhood | The New Republic | [62] |
2016 | The Reluctant Memoirist | The New Republic | [63] |
2016 | What Happened in Brisbane | The New Republic | [64] |
2017 | Land of Darkness | Lapham's Quarterly | [65] |
2017 | Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues | The Cut | [66] |
Awards
[edit]Year | Title | Notes | Ref |
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2003 | Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award | The Interpreter, winner | [67] |
2004 | Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award | The Interpreter, nominee | [68] |
2004 | PEN Openbook Award | The Interpreter, winner | [69] |
2019 | Berlin Prize | Winner | [70] |
Fellowships
[edit]Year | Title | Ref |
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1998 | Millay Colony for the Arts | [71] |
1998 | Ucross Foundation | [72] |
1999 | Ragdale Foundation | [73] |
1999 | The Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship | [74] |
2001 | MacDowell Fellowship | [75] |
2002 | MacDowell Fellowship | [75] |
2003 | MacDowell Fellowship | [75] |
2003 | Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship | [76] |
2005 | Ucross Foundation | [77] |
2006 | Guggenheim Fellowship | [78] |
2006 | MacDowell Fellowship | [75] |
2007 | Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship | [79] |
2010 | MacDowell Fellowship | [75] |
2012 | George Soros's Open Society Foundations Fellowship | [80] |
2014 | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship | [81] |
2017 | Ferris Journalism Fellowship at Princeton University | [82] |
2018 | Ucross Foundation | [83] |
2019 | Arizona State Universitys Center on the Future of War Fellowship | [84] |
2019 | New America Foundation Fellowship | [84] |
2019 | MacDowell Fellowship | [75] |
2020 | Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship | [85] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Educating the Elite", Barnard magazine, Winter 2015 issue. Accessed June 29, 2020
- ^ "Undercover in North Korea: "All Paths Lead to Catastrophe"". September 4, 2017.
- ^ Kim, Suki (November 21, 2004). "'Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl's Habits'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
- ^ "The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling". The Moth. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ "Suki Kim — Journalism". journalism.princeton.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (March 2, 2003). "NEW YORK OBSERVED: Translating Poverty and Pain". The New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ^ Yoon, Cindy. "Suki Kim and 'The Interpreter'". Asia Society.
- ^ Kim, Suki (February 13, 2003). "A Visit to North Korea". The New York Review of Books.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (December 3, 2008). "Talking with Suki Kim". Harper's Magazine.
- ^ "Suki Kim: 'Without You, There Is No Us'". The Diane Rehm Show. October 15, 2014.
- ^ Gladstone, Rick (November 30, 2014). "Tales Told Out of School in Pyongyang Cause Stir". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 30, 2022. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Kim, Suki (June 27, 2016). "The Reluctant Memoirist". The New Republic.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 1, 2017). "Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues". The Cut. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ "New York Public Radio Fires Hosts Lopate and Schwartz | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ "Embattled Head of New York Public Radio to Step Down (Published 2018)". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ Falk, Tyler; Reporter (June 18, 2018). "Cappello leaves WNYC after more than 20 years". Current. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ "Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting". Longreads. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (November 13, 2020). "The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ "The Moth: All These Wonders – stories from Dunnes Stores to North Korea". The Irish Times. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Suki Kim". New America. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (March 5, 2016). "A Visit to North Korea by Suki Kim | The New York Review of Books". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
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(help) - ^ "Opinion | Korea's New Wave (Published 2003)". www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (2005). "The anticipation of the water". Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 29, 2005). "Hwang, Drawn and Quartered?". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (October 16, 2006). "Great Leadership". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (July 25, 2007). "Suki Kim - Asia's Apostles". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (April 24, 2007). "Globalizing Grief". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (2008). "A really big show" (PDF). Harper's.
- ^ "Opinion | Notes From Another Credit Card Crisis (Published 2009)". www.nytimes.com. May 18, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (July 1, 2010). "[Article] The system of defecting, By Suki Kim". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ EDT, Suki Kim On 6/25/10 at 8:45 AM (June 25, 2010). "North Korean Fans Attend the World Cup". Newsweek. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Kim, Suki (February 25, 2013). "Opinion | Shared Wounds in Korea (Published 2013)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 16, 2013). "Opinion | The Dear Leader's Heinous Act (Published 2013)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (October 31, 2014). "The Good Student in North Korea (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (September 17, 2015). "North Korea's Real Hunger". Foreign Affairs: America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 2, 2014). "I Asked My North Korean Students to Write Critical Essays. They All Chose America as Their Topic". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 22, 2014). "The Sony Hack Is North Korea's Biggest Victory in a Long Time". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Suki Kim: Dear Leader's great victory". National Post. December 29, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ EST, Suki Kim On 12/4/14 at 12:33 PM (December 4, 2014). "The Secret Shame of North Korea's Slave Workers". Newsweek. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Kim, Suki (January 16, 2015). "What 'The Interview' Gets Right—and Wrong—About US Policy Toward North Korea". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (January 11, 2016). "Is it Time to Intervene in North Korea?". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (November 18, 2016). "Why South Koreans Are So Enraged by Their President's Bizarre Scandal". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (May 9, 2016). "Across the Broken Bridge". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 21, 2016). "Korean Reporters Got Fired, Got Active, and Got The President". Foreign Policy. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (February 24, 2017). "The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam's Murder". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (March 20, 2017). "An Extraordinary Statement from a North Korean Prince". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki. "Opinion | Is Christian evangelicals' money helping to prop up North Korea's regime?". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki. "Opinion | Tourism to North Korea isn't about engagement. It's torture porn". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "My two messed-up countries: an immigrant's dilemma". the Guardian. May 8, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (May 8, 2017). "South Korea Is More Worried About Donald Trump Than Kim Jong Un". Foreign Policy. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (October 22, 2018). "The Dealmaker". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (June 13, 2018). "Covering the North Korea Summit While Trapped in a Warehouse in Singapore". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Opinion | North Korea's Lipstick Diplomacy (Published 2018)". www.nytimes.com. February 9, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (March 4, 2020). "How South Korea Lost Control of Its Coronavirus Outbreak". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (November 13, 2020). "The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "NEW YORK OBSERVED; Translating Poverty and Pain (Published 2003)". www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ "NEW YORK OBSERVED; Marriage of Inconvenience? (Published 2003)". www.nytimes.com. June 22, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ "'Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl's Habits' (Published 2004)". www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2004. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (September 24, 2006). "Our Affair Was One Long Lesson in How to Break Up (Published 2006)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Forced From Home Yet Never Free of It (Published 2010)". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (February 8, 2015). "Love Stories: Why I Flew to Beijing in Search of the Perfect Dress". Vogue. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (March 7, 2016). "Mr. Rubio's Neighborhood". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (June 27, 2016). "The Reluctant Memoirist". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (September 15, 2016). "What Happened in Brisbane". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Land of Darkness | Suki Kim". Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Suki (December 1, 2017). "Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues". The Cut. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award". web.mnstate.edu. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ "List of PEN/Hemingway Winners | The Hemingway Society". www.hemingwaysociety.org. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ "PEN Open Book Award Winners". PEN America. April 29, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ "Suki Kim". American Academy. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "ALUMNI". Millay Colony for the Arts. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ "Ucross Foundation". July 25, 2004. Archived from the original on July 25, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ "Ragdale". Archived from the original on February 14, 2014.
- ^ "Former Fellows 1999". The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Suki Kim - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Santa Maddalena Foundation | The Fellows". Santa Maddalena Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ "Ucross Foundation Newsletter" (PDF).
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Suki Kim". Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Fellows News | Bogliasco Foundation". www.bfny.org. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ "Open Society Fellowship". www.opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "NYFA Proudly Announces the 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees". NYFA. January 23, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Suki Kim — Journalism". journalism.princeton.edu. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Ucross Foundation - Literature Alumni". UCROSS. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ a b "Center on the Future of War fellow Suki Kim wins prestigious Berlin Prize". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. May 23, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
- ^ "Suki Kim - Schloss Wiepersdorf (en)". www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
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