Elise Hu
Elise Hu is a host-at-large based at NPR West in Culver City, Calif. Previously, she explored the future with her video series, Future You with Elise Hu, and served as the founding bureau chief and International Correspondent for NPR's Seoul office. She was based in Seoul for nearly four years, responsible for the network's coverage of both Koreas and Japan, and filed from a dozen countries across Asia.
Before joining NPR, she was one of the founding reporters at The Texas Tribune, a non-profit digital news startup devoted to politics and public policy. While at the Tribune, Hu oversaw television partnerships and multimedia projects, contributed to The New York Times' expanded Texas coverage, and pushed for editorial innovation across platforms.
An honors graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism, she previously worked as the state political reporter for KVUE-TV in Austin, WYFF-TV in Greenville, SC, and reported from Asia for the Taipei Times.
Her work at NPR has earned a DuPont-Columbia award and a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her video series, Elise Tries. Her previous work has earned a Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism, a National Edward R. Murrow award for best online video, and beat reporting awards from the Texas Associated Press. The Austin Chronicle once dubiously named her the "Best TV Reporter Who Can Write."
Outside of work, Hu has taught digital journalism at Northwestern University and Georgetown University's journalism schools and served as a guest co-host for TWIT.tv's program, Tech News Today. She's on the board of Grist Magazine and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The vice president visited Tokyo Wednesday. The U.S. and Japan both favor hard-line policies toward North Korea but South Korea wants dialogue and has welcomed the North's team to the Winter Olympics. -
The Winter Olympics in South Korea offer a chance for the already technologically advanced country to show off its latest robot creations.
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South Korea has the world's highest per capita rate of plastic surgery procedures. But growing pushback against ads touting facial fix-ups has prompted Seoul's public transport system to ban the ads. -
The backdrop of the Winter Olympics will include some geopolitical jockeying. North and South Korea will continue to talk, while Vice President Pence attends the Olympics opening ceremony.
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The blaze broke out in an emergency room in the southeastern town of Miryang. Many of the fatalities were elderly patients and at least one doctor and two nursing staff were also killed. -
"We oppose, we oppose, we oppose," shouted protesters as North Korea's advance team arrived. Thousands signed petitions against a joint women's hockey team. The president's approval rating has fallen. -
North and South Korea will form a unified woman's hockey team and will march together in the opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
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The two sides announced further dialogue to ease tension between them, but the North still insists any talk of nuclear weapons is off the table. -
After trading bellicose barbs with North Korea throughout 2017, the U.S. heads into 2018 with an increasingly capable foe and no clear diplomatic exit ramps to temper the tensions. -
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert writes that after careful investigation, the U.S. is sure that Pyongyang carried out the attack in May.
