About K. W. Lee
Kyung Won Lee (Korean: 이경원; June 1, 1928 – March 8, 2025) was an American journalist who worked for mainstream daily publications in the continental United States. Lee was also the founding president of the Korean American Journalists Association. == Early life and education == Lee was born in 1928 in Kaesong, Korea, Empire of Japan and attended Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. In 1950, he immigrated to the United States, where he studied journalism at West Virginia University. After receiving a master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1955, he worked for daily newspapers such as the Kingsport Times-News in Tennessee, and the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. In 1960, he married Peggy Flowers of Bluefield, Virginia. He worked for many years for the Sacramento Union in California, where he oversaw investigative reporting and an internship program. He won awards from the National Headliners Club, the AP News Executive Council, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. == Career == Lee covered the civil rights struggles in the South in the early 1960s, massive vote-buying practices in southern West Virginia, and the plight of Appalachian coal miners. Lee is best known for writing an investigative series on the conviction of immigrant Chol Soo Lee for a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gangland murder which became the basis of the 1989 film True Believer, starring James Woods and Robert Downey Jr.
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