Kelly Kasulis Cho named reporter and editor-in-chief of The Post’s Seoul hub
These news hubs have become an integral part of The Post’s newsroom since their launch a year ago. Kelly joins us as part of an expansion in which Seoul and London operations will grow 40% this year, to 14 full-time employees at each location. She will work primarily as a journalist but will occasionally move into an editor role.
Kelly is currently the editor of The New York Times in Seoul, where she works on the homepage, newsletters and push alerts. Previously, she worked as an editor and reporter for NK News, an independent news agency covering North Korea, and as a freelance foreign correspondent covering Koreas for several news outlets, including Public Radio International, BBC World Service and Bloomberg. BNA.
She began her career as a digital editor for the GroundTruth project and as a contributor to the Boston Globe, where she wrote a weekly science column and helped cover Asian American issues. She graduated from Northeastern University and spent four years as a fellow at the Emma L. Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media, interning at NBC Connecticut.
Kelly grew up in the US but has lived in Seoul since 2017; she speaks korean. Please welcome Kelly, who will start at the Seoul hub on September 19.
