Bae Hyun-jin
Bae Hyun-jin is a South Korean broadcaster and politician. Prior to entering politics, she was the anchor for Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, based in Seoul, South Korea. She is a member of the People Power Party.
Career
Bae graduated from Sookmyung Women's University's Seoul campus with a degree in Communications and Korean Language and Literature after graduating from in Ansan, South Korea. She won the silver prize at the Sookmyung Speech Contest and Speaker prize at the University Student Speech Contest in 2007 when she was a university student.She also worked as a public relations model for Sookmyung Women's University during her school days. She was picked up by MBC in November 2008 among 1,926 competitors and began presenting news updates for the 5 p.m. MBC News in 2009.
Bae's career at MBC began in November 2009, presenting late news updates in MBC News programs and delivering error corrections in Korean in the MBC TV program "우리말 나들이". She has presented one-off events such as the Guangzhou Asian Games as a newscaster in 2010.
She also was an MC for the MBC TV debate program, 100 Minute Debate, and MBC radio program, Bae Hyun-jin's World City Travels, which features world-famous cities, in 2010. She sometimes appears in entertainment TV programs such as Three Wheels and Infinite Challenge. She has been a main anchor with Kwon Jae-hong for MBC News Desk in the place of announcer Lee Jung-min since 8 April 2011. Although she has had a short career as an anchor, she responded calmly when Kwon Jae-hong abruptly left in the middle of a program because of a sudden headache 27 July 2011.
In January 2024, she was hit fifteen times on the back of the head with a brick by a 15-year-old male, because she allegedly turned down advances from politician Lee Jun-seok.
In January 2026, she was criticized for posting a photo of a Facebook user's child while arguing with that person on Facebook.