C. Hwang is seen working in the bureau. C.
Hwang, whose six-decade-long journalism career included 30 years chronicling South Koreas tumultuous modern history as Seoul bureau chief for The Associated Press, has died on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. He was 99. – C. Hwang, whose six-decade-long journalism career included 30 years chronicling South Korea’s tumultuous modern history for The Associated Press, including as Seoul bureau chief, has died at age 99.
“It was rare luck for a journalist to cover all these historical events in a single country,” Hwang wrote in a 2006 book titled “Korea Witness,” a collection of essays and articles by Korea correspondents. “I was faster than other foreign journalists. The story was moved via our Tokyo bureau. ... It touched off immense world reaction,” Hwang said in an interview with South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper last year.
After Park was gunned down by his spy chief in 1979, Chun Doo-hwan, also an army major general, launched a coup and took power. “Foreign journalists were relatively freer from government crackdown or censorships ... so my father was proud of the fact that he wrote about the situation more accurately than Korean media reporters,” said Hwang’s son.
A few years later, Hwang began regularly posting articles in Korean on various issues on a local online site. He had continued contributing articles to the site until he was hospitalized recently. In an article posted this February, Hwang said he had been writing a diary every night for 20 years.
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