Background
Lah was born in Seoul, South of Korea, and grew up in Streamwood, Illinois, Lah graduated in 1989 from Hoffman Estates High School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
Lah was born in Seoul, South of Korea, and grew up in Streamwood, Illinois, Lah graduated in 1989 from Hoffman Estates High School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
University of Illinois system. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
She earned a bachelor"s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. She was also a writer for the school"s Daily Illini newspaper. Lah began her career in 1993 as a desk assistant and field producer at WBBM-TV-television in Chicago.
In 1994, she became an on-air reporter for WWMT-television in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In 1995, she joined KGTV-television in San Diego as a reporter. In January 2000, she took a job at WBBM-TV-television in Chicago as an on-air reporter.
In early 2003, Lah moved to Los Angeles to take a job at National Broadcasting Company, LA, California-television in Los Angeles, where she was a morning reporter and a midday anchor. The Chicago Sun-Times reported at the time that Lah had turned down a "half-hearted (contract) renewal offer" from WBBM-TV-television Despite receiving high praise from management, Lah was allegedly fired from National Broadcasting Company, LA, California-television in Los Angeles in March 2005 for an alleged affair with her field producer Jeff Soto.
They were both married at the time and Lah"s husband also worked for National Broadcasting Company in the Los Angeles area.
In late 2005, Lah joined Cable News Network Newsource as a Washington, District of Columbia-based correspondent. In November 2007, Lah became Cable News Network"s Tokyo-based correspondent. A Japanese interpreter always accompanied her.
On June 27, 2012, Lah left her post in Japan for a position at the Cable News Network bureau in Los Los Angeles
Controversy
Lah has written extensively about Japanese subculture, specializing in men who have married animated characters and video games that simulate rape. As a result, she has been criticized by the Japanese blogosphere for focusing on the irregular outliers of Japan, rather than the hard-hitting news that was expected from her as a reporter for an international broadcasting company.
Lah has declared that she holds a very strong South Korean identity. In a 2006 interview with Dynamic-of Korea, she revealed that she " about the larger question of being Korean every single moment."
In late September 2011, she went on maternity leave.
She returned on December 26, 2011.