From The Newsroom: Back-To-School Stings, South Korea Sings

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published August 7, 2014 at 6:44 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Kids are lined up at county clinics for their start of school immunizations. And a Korean culture expert on how the country is trying to become a powerhouse of pop-culture, starting with perfectly packaged pop music.

You can listen to the segment weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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