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  • Sophie Jeong
    Associate Producer

    Sophie Jeong is based in Seoul, South Korea. She plays an integral part of CNN's coverage of North and South Korea on TV and digital platforms.

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  • North Korea calls Trump a 'heedless and erratic old man'

  • K-pop star Jung Joon-young (C) arrives for questioning at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul on March 14, 2019. - A burgeoning K-pop sex scandal claimed a second scalp as a singer who rose to fame after coming second in one of South Korea's top talent shows admitted secretly filming himself having sex and sharing the footage. Jung Joon-young, 30, announced his immediate retirement from showbusiness amid allegations he shot and shared sexual imagery without his partners' consent. (Photo by JUNG Yeon-Je / AFP)        (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

    2 K-pop stars sentenced to prison for sexual assault. One of them also filmed it

  • North Korea fires projectiles from 'super-large' missile launcher, South Korea says

  • South Korea deports North Korean fishermen suspected of mass killing at sea

  • BTS Pop-Up Shop Seoul

    BTS opens pop-up store in Seoul for the first time

  • A partially-obscured piece of North Korea-style propaganda reads: "Look! It's the Pyongyang Pub!"

    In a trendy Seoul neighborhood, a taste of repressive North Korea

  • 16-year-old Yoo Chae-rin draws nail designs on paper as part of an alternative activity to using smartphone at a government-sponsored smartphone addiction camp in Cheonan, South Korea on July 29, 2019.

    The teenagers so addicted to cellphones they're going to detox centers

  • Players warm up before the match begins on October 15, 2019, at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.

    North and South Korea play first men's soccer match on North Korean soil in almost 30 years