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Mi-Jung Lee

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Mi-Jung Lee (born September 12, 1966[1]) (Korean이미정; RRI Mijeong; born in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea[2]) is a Canadian television journalist and news anchor based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She formerly co-anchored the weeknight 6pm newscast alongside Scott Roberts on CTV Vancouver, Roberts has since moved on to Global TV Edmonton and Lee is anchoring solo.

Biography

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She moved with her family from South Korea to Vancouver at age 4,[3][4] and graduated from Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School in 1984. She then completed an undergraduate degree in English literature at the University of British Columbia, and later a post-graduate degree in journalism at Ryerson University.[3][4]

She began her on-air career in 1990 as a reporter and part-time anchor at CHEK-TV in Victoria, then moved to CHAN-TV (BCTV, then CTV's Vancouver affiliate) in 1992 and served in similar capacities,[3][4] eventually anchoring that station's News Hour Final weeknights until 1998. That year she joined CIVT-TV (then independent station VTV) as 6pm news co-anchor alongside Paul Mennier.[3][4] When CIVT became a CTV owned-and-operated station as part of the 2001 Vancouver TV realignment, Lee became anchor and producer of the station's 11:30pm newscast.[3][4] She also briefly co-hosted the Western Canada edition of CTV's national breakfast television program Canada AM from January 2008 until its cancellation in June that year.[3][5][6] She returned to CIVT's weeknight 6pm newscast as co-anchor in August 2018, after Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart were let go from the station earlier that year.[7]

Lee has appeared as a reporter or news anchor in several TV shows and films including Snakes on a Plane, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tron: Legacy, Hot Rod and Watchmen.[1]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
2000 The 6th Day Newscaster
2003 X2 News Reporter
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Newscaster
2006 Snakes on a Plane News Anchor
2007 The Invisible Newscaster
2007 Hot Rod Newswoman
2009 Watchmen A Bomb Test Anchorwoman
2010 Tron: Legacy Debra Chung

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mi-Jung Lee". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  2. ^ MacKenzie, Angela (2009-09-23). "Best of Vancouver communities: Experience Korea starting with kimchi and K-pop". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Mi-Jung Lee". CTV Vancouver. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Community Profiles: Mi-Jung Lee". South Asian Post. 2006-02-09. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  5. ^ Binning, Cheryl (2008-02-05). "Canada AM looks to boost ratings in B.C." Playback. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  6. ^ "CTV to add Vancouver anchor desk at Canada AM". CBC News. 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
  7. ^ Perkins, Martha (2018-08-23). "CTV Vancouver reveals its 'major refresh' as former anchor prepares to give her side of the story". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved 2019-08-29.
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