Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Guilty of illegally hiring Filipina housekeepers
Lee Myung-hee, left, the widow of late Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho, and Cho Hyun-ah, her eldest daughter, walk out of the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, Tuesday, after the widow received an 18-month jail term suspended for three years and the daughter one year suspended for two years, for illegally hiring 11 Filipina housekeepers by disguising them as workers of the airline. /Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji