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Gene Kang

Los Angeles

Television News Reporter at KTLA-TV (Los Angeles, CA)

@KTLA TV reporter. ☀️ Los Angeles. Emmy winner. 🇰🇷 Korean-American. Married. Loves dancing, cooking & naps. @SGIUSA Buddhist. ❤️ News tips: [email protected]

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  • 4 weeks ago | ktla.com | Tony Kurzweil |Gene Kang

    A shopping center in West Hollywood has deployed a chirping device to keep the unhoused from a stairwell outside a Trader Joe’s store, but it has some upset. KTLA’s Gene Kang was outside the Trader Joe’s store off of Santa Monica Boulevard, where the chirping could be heard loud and clear during his live report Friday morning.

  • 1 month ago | fox8.com | Gene Kang

    by: Gene Kang Posted: May 19, 2025 / 11:40 AM EDT Updated: May 19, 2025 / 11:40 AM EDT (KTLA) — The FBI has identified the suspect in Saturday’s terrorist bombing of the American Reproductive Centers clinic in Palm Springs, California. His father spoke to Nexstar’s KTLA for the first time.

  • 1 month ago | myhighplains.com | Gene Kang

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  • Jan 23, 2025 | ktla.com | Tony Kurzweil |Gene Kang

    Tens of thousands of residents remain under evacuation orders and warnings Thursday morning as firefighters continue to battle for containment on the Hughes Fire that erupted near Castaic. The blaze was reported around 11 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Lake Hughes Road near Castaic Lake and used gusty winds to rapidly spread through steep terrain. Thousands of firefighters were called to battle the Hughes Fire, which had scorched 10,176 acres as of 11:36 p.m. Wednesday.

  • Nov 23, 2024 | ktla.com | Will Conybeare |Gene Kang |Kacey Montoya

    Weather officials are advising that “cool and unsettled” weather will be hovering over Southern California this weekend and into midweek as an atmospheric river pushes rain into the region. According to the National Weather Service, powerful mid-latitude cyclones rotating in the Pacific Northwest will transport moisture to the region via multiple storm systems. “The first period of rain will last through Saturday,” NWS said in their area forecast discussion.

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Gene Kang @GeneKangTV
24 May 23

RT @KTLA: #BREAKING: Tina Turner has died at 83. https://t.co/NVk7GsoXy4

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Gene Kang @GeneKangTV
24 May 23

RT @KTLA: Tina Turner's career in photos https://t.co/vwztZIlobN

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Gene Kang @GeneKangTV
20 Apr 23

RT @KTLAMorningNews: WHO WORE IT BEST?🏎 Our #KTLA team can definitely work a jumpsuit, but who do you think rocked this @GPLongBeach look?…