Fellows & Editors
Kurt Achin
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2004
- Affiliation:
- Freelance video
- Country:
- Korea
- Year:
- 2004
Kurt Achin is a Seoul-based Correspondent and Bureau Chief for Voice of America. Kurt opened the Seoul bureau in late 2004 after spending the Fall 2004 semester at Johns Hopkins University as a Fellow in the International Reporting Project. He was a producer of CNN International’s World News in Atlanta for five years before moving to Hong Kong to launch original programming, including the pan-Asian technology magazine "eBizasia," and "TalkAsia," a program that features in-depth interviews with Asian leaders. He has also been a reporter, assignment editor and producer for CNN, Voice of America, StarNews Asia, and the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Stories
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Aid Group Believes Half of All North Korean Defectors Suffer Trauma Disorders
The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least half of all North Korean asylum seekers have probably been psychologically damaged by their attempts to leave their homeland. Doctors Without Borders...
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