Kyung Lah is a senior investigative correspondent for CNN based in Los Angeles.

Most recently, Lah served as a senior national correspondent covering the 2024 presidential campaign, focusing on the Iowa caucuses. In recent years, she has extensively covered the disinformation surrounding the results of the 2020 presidential election and the state-level efforts to authorize the election results. Her reporting across Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan and Pennsylvania was recognized by the Walter Cronkite Awards for excellence in television political journalism in 2023. Lah was also a part of the CNN team recognized with a Columbia du Pont Award for their coverage of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

Lah covered the 2020 presidential race, focusing on then-candidates for the Democratic nomination Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. As the US grappled with Covid-19, Lah pivoted to cover the economic impact of the pandemic on everyday Americans and her report on a Houston family’s eviction went viral, humanizing the financial strain many faced.

Prior to that, she covered the political and cultural impact of the surge of women candidates who ran for US Congress in 2018.

Lah has covered major US & global events in the last decade, from the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to missing flight MH370 from Malaysia and the downing of MH11 from Ukraine. With her knowledge of the Asia-Pacific regions, Lah has covered the tensions with North Korea from the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Before rejoining CNNUS, Lah served as the Tokyo correspondent for CNN. In March 2011, Lah was in Tokyo as the 9.0 earthquake struck Japan. She remained in Japan covering the 15,000 killed in the tsunami and the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 25 years at the Fukushima nuclear power plant triple meltdown. She as the first US broadcast journalist to be taken inside the meltdown at the one-year anniversary of the disaster. Lah has reported extensively throughout East Asia, reporting stories of conflict and human struggle from China, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Pakistan. Lah has interviewed numerous Japanese prime ministers as well as leaders from China and Pakistan.

Lah previously served as a national correspondent for CNN Newsource based out of Washington, DC. Lah reported on live breaking news events from the nation’s capital more than 1,000 Newsource partner stations around the world.

Lah graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Lah was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Chicago.