Kay Seok, a Seoul-based researcher in Human Rights Watch's Asia division, has specialized expertise on North and South Korea and covers both countries as well the Philippines. Seok has published articles and op-eds in newspapers around the world. She routinely briefs government officials, the United Nations, and the European Union; gives press interviews on North and South Korea's human rights conditions; and represents Human Rights Watch at international conferences and forums on North Korean human rights. Before joining Human Rights Watch in the communications department in 2002, Seok worked for the International Rescue Committee and as a journalist covering North and South Korea. She has taught human rights as a guest lecturer, including at Ewha Women's University, her own alma mater.  Ms. Seok speaks Korean and English.

Articles

"Grotesque Indifference," International Herald Tribune, May 15, 2007

"North Korea's Cruelty," The Washington Post, March 17, 2007

"North Korea is Headed Toward Another Famine," International Herald Tribune, May 4, 2006