Max Kim is the Los Angeles Times correspondent in Seoul. He has written from the area for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, MIT Technology Review and other publications and helped to produce news documentaries for Vice News and the BBC. Kim grew up in Seoul and Princeton, N.J., and graduated from the University of Buffalo with a degree in English and comparative literature. He is a winner of the SOPA Award for Editorial Excellence in Feature Writing and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting, both for his story on a special forces commando seeking atonement for his role in the brutal repression of South Korea’s pro-democracy movement in 1980.
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