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.
Preparing Gwangju uprising commemoration
Activists preparing for an event to mark the May 18 Gwangju Uprising reenact a street broadcast, which protesters held back in 1980, in front of the old South Jeolla provincial government building, Friday, a day before the 39th anniversary of the pro-democracy movement. /Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji