Suki Kim Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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.

In 2017, Suki Kim broke a sexual harassment scandal against John Hockenberry at WNYC in her article in The Cut. Her investigation led to the firing of two longterm WNYC hosts, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz, as well as the eventual resignation of its CEO, Laura Walker, and Chief Content officer, Dean Cappello. Her article was voted as the Best Investigative Reporting of 2017 by Longreads.

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. 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. Her publisher subsequently removed the label “memoir” from the cover of Without You, There Is No Us.

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.

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.

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.