Lee So-jeong is breaking new grounds in the media world in South Korea. She is the first women main host for primetime newscast at KBS, South Korea's national public broadcaster, in Seoul. Five times a week, Lee is beamed into living rooms across the country leading its famous "News 9" bulletin. - AFP
SEOUL: Under gleamingly bright studio lights, Lee So-jeong reads straight from a teleprompter, rehearsing her lines ahead of the primetime newscast for South Korea's national public broadcaster, KBS.
Five times a week, she is beamed into living rooms across the country leading its "News 9" bulletin, after she broke into a decades-old boys' club in a society that is technologically and economically advanced, but still culturally male-dominated.
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