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Suki Kim
At Miami Book Fair International, Nov. 2015
At Miami Book Fair International, Nov. 2015
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Seoul, South Korea
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBarnard College [1]
Genrenovel, essay
Notable worksThe Interpreter, Without You, There is No Us
Notable awardsPEN 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

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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

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The Interpreter

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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

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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

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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

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Books

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Year Title
2003 The Interpreter
2014 Without You, There Is No Us; My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

Anthologies

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Year Title Ref
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

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About North Korea and South Korea

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Year Title Publication Ref
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

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Year Title Publication Ref
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

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Year Title Notes Ref
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

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Year Title Ref
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

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References

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  1. ^ "Educating the Elite", Barnard magazine, Winter 2015 issue. Accessed June 29, 2020
  2. ^ "Undercover in North Korea: "All Paths Lead to Catastrophe"". September 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Kim, Suki (November 21, 2004). "'Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl's Habits'". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  4. ^ "The Moth | The Art and Craft of Storytelling". The Moth. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  5. ^ "Suki Kim — Journalism". journalism.princeton.edu. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  6. ^ Kim, Suki (March 2, 2003). "NEW YORK OBSERVED: Translating Poverty and Pain". The New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  7. ^ Yoon, Cindy. "Suki Kim and 'The Interpreter'". Asia Society.
  8. ^ Kim, Suki (February 13, 2003). "A Visit to North Korea". The New York Review of Books.
  9. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (December 3, 2008). "Talking with Suki Kim". Harper's Magazine.
  10. ^ "Suki Kim: 'Without You, There Is No Us'". The Diane Rehm Show. October 15, 2014.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Kim, Suki (June 27, 2016). "The Reluctant Memoirist". The New Republic.
  13. ^ Kim, Suki (December 1, 2017). "Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues". The Cut. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  14. ^ "New York Public Radio Fires Hosts Lopate and Schwartz | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News". WNYC. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  15. ^ "Embattled Head of New York Public Radio to Step Down (Published 2018)". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  16. ^ Falk, Tyler; Reporter (June 18, 2018). "Cappello leaves WNYC after more than 20 years". Current. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  17. ^ "Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting". Longreads. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  18. ^ Kim, Suki (November 13, 2020). "The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  19. ^ "The Moth: All These Wonders – stories from Dunnes Stores to North Korea". The Irish Times. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  20. ^ "Suki Kim". New America. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  21. ^ 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. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  22. ^ "Opinion | Korea's New Wave (Published 2003)". www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  23. ^ Kim, Suki (2005). "The anticipation of the water". Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
  24. ^ Kim, Suki (December 29, 2005). "Hwang, Drawn and Quartered?". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  25. ^ Kim, Suki (October 16, 2006). "Great Leadership". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  26. ^ Kim, Suki (July 25, 2007). "Suki Kim - Asia's Apostles". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  27. ^ Kim, Suki (April 24, 2007). "Globalizing Grief". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  28. ^ Kim, Suki (2008). "A really big show" (PDF). Harper's.
  29. ^ "Opinion | Notes From Another Credit Card Crisis (Published 2009)". www.nytimes.com. May 18, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  30. ^ Kim, Suki (July 1, 2010). "[Article] The system of defecting, By Suki Kim". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  31. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ Kim, Suki (February 25, 2013). "Opinion | Shared Wounds in Korea (Published 2013)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  33. ^ 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.
  34. ^ Kim, Suki (October 31, 2014). "The Good Student in North Korea (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  35. ^ Kim, Suki (September 17, 2015). "North Korea's Real Hunger". Foreign Affairs: America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  36. ^ 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.
  37. ^ Kim, Suki (December 22, 2014). "The Sony Hack Is North Korea's Biggest Victory in a Long Time". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  38. ^ "Suki Kim: Dear Leader's great victory". National Post. December 29, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  39. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  40. ^ 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.
  41. ^ Kim, Suki (January 11, 2016). "Is it Time to Intervene in North Korea?". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  42. ^ Kim, Suki (November 18, 2016). "Why South Koreans Are So Enraged by Their President's Bizarre Scandal". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  43. ^ Kim, Suki (May 9, 2016). "Across the Broken Bridge". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  44. ^ Kim, Suki (December 21, 2016). "Korean Reporters Got Fired, Got Active, and Got The President". Foreign Policy. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  45. ^ Kim, Suki (February 24, 2017). "The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam's Murder". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  46. ^ Kim, Suki (March 20, 2017). "An Extraordinary Statement from a North Korean Prince". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  47. ^ Kim, Suki. "Opinion | Is Christian evangelicals' money helping to prop up North Korea's regime?". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  48. ^ Kim, Suki. "Opinion | Tourism to North Korea isn't about engagement. It's torture porn". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  49. ^ "My two messed-up countries: an immigrant's dilemma". the Guardian. May 8, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  50. ^ Kim, Suki (May 8, 2017). "South Korea Is More Worried About Donald Trump Than Kim Jong Un". Foreign Policy. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  51. ^ Kim, Suki (October 22, 2018). "The Dealmaker". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  52. ^ Kim, Suki (June 13, 2018). "Covering the North Korea Summit While Trapped in a Warehouse in Singapore". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  53. ^ "Opinion | North Korea's Lipstick Diplomacy (Published 2018)". www.nytimes.com. February 9, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  54. ^ Kim, Suki (March 4, 2020). "How South Korea Lost Control of Its Coronavirus Outbreak". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  55. ^ Kim, Suki (November 13, 2020). "The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  56. ^ "NEW YORK OBSERVED; Translating Poverty and Pain (Published 2003)". www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  57. ^ "NEW YORK OBSERVED; Marriage of Inconvenience? (Published 2003)". www.nytimes.com. June 22, 2003. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  58. ^ "'Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl's Habits' (Published 2004)". www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2004. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  59. ^ 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.
  60. ^ "Forced From Home Yet Never Free of It (Published 2010)". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  61. ^ Kim, Suki (February 8, 2015). "Love Stories: Why I Flew to Beijing in Search of the Perfect Dress". Vogue. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  62. ^ Kim, Suki (March 7, 2016). "Mr. Rubio's Neighborhood". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  63. ^ Kim, Suki (June 27, 2016). "The Reluctant Memoirist". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  64. ^ Kim, Suki (September 15, 2016). "What Happened in Brisbane". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  65. ^ "Land of Darkness | Suki Kim". Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  66. ^ Kim, Suki (December 1, 2017). "Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues". The Cut. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  67. ^ "Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award". web.mnstate.edu. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  68. ^ "List of PEN/Hemingway Winners | The Hemingway Society". www.hemingwaysociety.org. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  69. ^ "PEN Open Book Award Winners". PEN America. April 29, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  70. ^ "Suki Kim". American Academy. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  71. ^ "ALUMNI". Millay Colony for the Arts. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  72. ^ "Ucross Foundation". July 25, 2004. Archived from the original on July 25, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  73. ^ "Ragdale". Archived from the original on February 14, 2014.
  74. ^ "Former Fellows 1999". The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  75. ^ a b c d e f "Suki Kim - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  76. ^ "Santa Maddalena Foundation | The Fellows". Santa Maddalena Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  77. ^ "Ucross Foundation Newsletter" (PDF).
  78. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Suki Kim". Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  79. ^ "Fellows News | Bogliasco Foundation". www.bfny.org. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  80. ^ "Open Society Fellowship". www.opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  81. ^ "NYFA Proudly Announces the 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees". NYFA. January 23, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  82. ^ "Suki Kim — Journalism". journalism.princeton.edu. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  83. ^ "Ucross Foundation - Literature Alumni". UCROSS. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  84. ^ 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.
  85. ^ "Suki Kim - Schloss Wiepersdorf (en)". www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
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