Bae Hyun-jin (; born 6 November 1983) is a South Korean broadcaster and politician. Prior to entering politics, she was the anchor for

Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC; ) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasters. Its flagship terrestrial television station MBC TV broadcasts as channel 11. MBC News Now broadcasts as channel 12. Establish ...

(MBC), based in Seoul, South Korea. She is a member of the People Power Party.

Career

Bae graduated from Sookmyung Women's University's Seoul campus with a degree in Communications and Korean Language and Literature after graduating from in

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, South Korea. She won the silver prize at the Sookmyung Speech Contest and Speaker prize at the University Student Speech Contest in 2007 when she was a university student. She also worked as a public relations model for Sookmyung Women's University during her school days. She was picked up by MBC in November 2008 among 1,926 competitors and began presenting news updates for the 5 p.m. MBC News in 2009. Bae's career at MBC began in November 2009, presenting late news updates in MBC News programs and delivering error corrections in Korean in the MBC TV program "우리말 나들이" (roughly: "A Visit to Our Language"). She has presented one-off events such as the '' Guangzhou Asian Games'' as a newscaster in 2010. She also was an MC for the MBC TV debate program, ''100 Minute Debate'' (100분토론), and MBC radio program, ''Bae Hyun-jin's World City Travels'' (), which features world-famous cities, in 2010. She sometimes appears in entertainment TV programs such as ''Three Wheels'' () and ''

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''. She has been a main anchor with Kwon Jae-hong for ''MBC News Desk'' in the place of announcer Lee Jung-min since 8 April 2011. Although she has had a short career as an anchor, she responded calmly when Kwon Jae-hong abruptly left in the middle of a program because of a sudden headache 27 July 2011. In January 2024, she was hit fifteen times on the back of the head with a brick by a 15-year-old male, because she allegedly turned down advances from politician Lee Jun-seok.

Personal life

Recently she appeared in the TV show ''Infinite Challenge'' as a special guest to teach Korean, and she said she has never had a boyfriend. She enjoys

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, reading and

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as her hobbies.

Electoral history

References

MBC announcer introduction page
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