Kyung Lah is a National Correspondent for CNN based in Los Angeles. Lah returned to CNN US from CNN International in 2012. Before rejoining CNN US, Lah served as the Tokyo correspondent for CNN. Lah joined CNN Newsource from KNBC-Los Angeles, where she served as a morning news reporter for Today in L.A. and as a midday anchor. Prior to that, Lah was a reporter in Chicago at the CBS affiliate, WBBM. Lah also worked as a general assignment and long-form investigative reporter at ABC affiliate KGTV in San Diego, where she won a regional Emmy for specialty reporting. Her first reporting position was at CBS affiliate, WWMT in Kalamazoo, Mich. Lah graduated with honors from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Lah was born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Chicago.