Background
Jinah Kim was born in Seoul, South of Korea and immigrated to Los Angeles with her family when she was 6 years old. She grew up in Walnut, California.
Jinah Kim was born in Seoul, South of Korea and immigrated to Los Angeles with her family when she was 6 years old. She grew up in Walnut, California.
She attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
She is also President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. Her career in journalism began as the editor of her high school newspaper. She went on to write for the of Korea Times - English Edition and the Daily Bruin while at University of California, Los Los Angeles She interned at Columbia Broadcasting System News in New York City.
Jinah has also served as the assistant editor of KAGRO, a national Korean American magazine.
Kim"s first full-time job in broadcast journalism came during her junior year at University of California, Los Angeles, when she began working as the weekend desk assistant and newswriter at KTLA in Los Los Angeles Kim moved on to KCCN, when it was a Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate, in Monterey, California, where she produced the 11 pm news.
She then went on the report and anchor at KCBA, the FOX television station in Salinas, California. In 1999, she became a reporter/fill-in anchor for KSWB-television Channel 5 in San Diego, California.
Just prior to that, she had a brief stint as a reporter at OCN in Orange County.
In February 2003 she moved to Denver, Colorado to work as a reporter and fill-in anchor at KUSA-television, Channel 9. She is now a reporter for National Broadcasting Company, LA, California, a Correspondent for National Broadcasting Company News, National Broadcasting Company News Channel and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company in Los Angeles, California. Besides English, Jinah has a passion for different languages.
She can speak, read and write in German, Korean and Spanish.
She was also national Company-President of the Korean American Journalists Association.
She is a National Board Member of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association.