interview with Kelly about
Kim Jong-un and
rising tensions with North Korea. Kelly is an
associate professor of
international relations in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at
Pusan National University in
Busan,
South Korea. As a political analyst on inter-Korean affairs, he contributes to print and televised media, He has made media appearances on the
BBC World News,
China Central Television and has written for several publications including
The Diplomat He has also provided expert opinion for
The Washington Post and
Reuters. Kelly is furthermore a prolific contributor to
The Interpreter, published by the Australian think tank
Lowy Institute.
BBC News interview (2017) On March 10, 2017, he and his family rose to fame when his live interview by James Menendez on the
impeachment of Park Geun-hye, the
President of South Korea, for the
BBC World News from his home office was sequentially gatecrashed by his four-year-old daughter and nine-month-old son entering the room, then his wife, Jung-a Kim, sliding in to drag them out while knocking books off an air-mattress, before closing the door on her knees. The interview continued as normal, with the BBC News hailing the video as their favorite live TV moment of the week. It became a
Twitter Moment and quickly went viral with all four family members becoming individual memes. In just one day, the video had over 6 million views on
YouTube and became the No. 1 trending video on YouTube in the UK, later being named 10 on
YouTube's list of the top 10 trending videos of 2017. Many viewers and journalists incorrectly assumed the woman in the video was Kelly's nanny instead of his wife. Kelly and his family returned to television on March 14 for an interview about the incident. In December 2017 he said that "for two weeks we were the most famous family on earth" but he thought it could be "the end of my career as a
talking head."
Variety shows Kelly's fame arising from the viral video led to his appearance on a South Korean
reality television show that focuses on the struggles of fathers raising young children. == Select bibliography ==