IN JEONG KIM

AFC SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE

Injeong Kim has worked as an investigative journalist and filmmaker with the public broadcasting station Gwangju MBC in South Korea for the past decade. She is dedicated to reporting about social movements and has co-directed two documentaries about the Gwangju Uprising and the Candlelight Movement. She un-earthed “the Platt Memo” in 2017, a historically significant memorandum and surviving audio recordings about the White House response to the Gwangju Uprising. Her work has received awards from Amnesty International South Korea and the Korean Broadcasters Association. She is also interested in the arts and print journalism; she is an editorial board member of the photography magazine, VOSTOK, as well as a contributor to magazines like The Nation. She is currently in the Documentary track at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.