Wikipedia Bio / Profile Background
Introduction :
Kathy Park is an Emmy nominated journalist, news reporter, and national correspondent. Currently, she works for NBC News and is based out of New York.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Kathy Park Ethnicity / Heritage / Race : Korean-American
- In August 2019, she got engaged to her fiancé Brent. The couple announced on Instagram that they are planning their wedding in 2021. Kathy does not have any children as of yet.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Kathy Park is of Korean-American origin as both her parents are from Seoul, South Korea.
- She grew up in the suburbs of Maryland, in a community called Silver Spring. The town is just 40 minutes away from Washington D.C.
- She has a brother, William, who is a doctor by profession.
- Park was not only a cheerleader for her high school, but she was also a member of the student council and editor of her school paper. She worked at The Gap while in high school.
- Later, she studied journalism and psychology at the University of Maryland. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in journalism.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Kathy Park began her career in journalism shortly after graduating from college.
- In 2007, she became a news reporter for WCYB-TV News 5. There she covered breaking news in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. She worked there for a little over a year.
- In 2008, she began working at ABC7 in Washington D.C., she covered news such as the presidential inauguration and more.
- She became a news anchor and a general assignment news reporter for KCRA3 in Sacramento in 2014. Park remained in that position for over five years.
- In 2018, Kathy got her big break as she was hired as a national correspondent for NBC News.
- Since then, she has appeared on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Weekend Today, and Sunday Tonight with Willie Geist.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Kathy visited Disneyland for the first time at the age of two.
- Park was an athlete, swimming competitively throughout her childhood. The freestyle was her favorite stroke. She plays the piano and the flute, two instruments that she started playing as a child.
- The experienced reporter actually worked as a teacher for one day in Tennessee when she was called in to be a substitute teacher.
- Kathy once interned for DIY TV. She also was an intern at NBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”
- She is a member of the Korea-United States Journalism Exchange as well as the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).
- The music group N’ Sync ad Justin Timberlake are said to be Kathy’s favorite artists.
- Kathy once had a dog named Koko, but that only lasted for two days. She realized her schedule was too busy to have a dog.
- She loves the warm weather and anything to do with the beach!
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