Assistant Professor Hun Shik Kim
Armory 1B30
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
HunShik.Kim@Colorado.edu
303-492-0324 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Assistant Professor Hun Shik Kim joined the faculty in 2005 teaching broadcast news. He holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and a BA in English Literature from Chung-Ang University, Korea. He started his broadcasting career at KOMU-TV, an NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri. He was a public affairs officer (Captain) with the Republic of Korea Army from 1989 to 1992. As a broadcast journalist with Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), in Seoul, Korea, from 1992 to 2005, Kim has held various positions including legal correspondent, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter, anchor, and news producer. As foreign correspondent, he covered the war in Iraq, the Kashmir conflict, and the Sri Lankan civil war. His last KBS project involved launching and producing the network's weekly international newsmagazine, "Global Dispatches," that was Korean television's first indepth news program on world affairs. Before joining the CU faculty, he taught as an adjunct professor in mass communication at Chung-Ang University. His main areas of research include broadcast journalism, international communication, war reporting, and new media technologies. His research has been published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Gazette, Mass Communication & Society, Asian Journal of Communication, and Social Indicators Research.