Mi-Jung Lee

Born

1966-09-12

Birthplace

Chuncheon-si, South Korea

Biography

Mi-Jung Lee (September 12, 1966, in Chuncheon, South Korea) is a Korean-Canadian television journalist and news anchor based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She began her career in 1990 as a reporter and part-time news anchor at CHEK-TV in Victoria before moving to CHAN-TV (BCTV, later CTV Vancouver) in 1992. In 1998, she became co-anchor of the 6:00 PM news on CIVT-TV (then VTV). Later, she took over hosting and producing the 11:30 PM news on CTV Vancouver. Lee has appeared in several films and TV shows as a news anchor or reporter, including The 6th Day (2000), X-Men 2 (2003), Snakes on a Plane (2006), Watchmen (2009), and Tron: Legacy (2010). In addition to her journalism career, she is known for her investigative reporting, winning several RTDNA and Webster Awards for her coverage of topics such as Vancouver’s opioid crisis and sexual harassment allegations at WestJet. Lee lives in Vancouver with her husband and two sons.