Reporter/PD Kim Young-mi vs. War Correspondent Lee Jin-sook

The very concept of a "war correspondent" does not exist in South Korea.
Try searching for South Korean war correspondents. Who comes up?
Lee Jin-sook was merely a correspondent who was dispatched to a relatively safe Baghdad
for a few days during the Gulf War.
A war correspondent is someone who receives permission from military units, receives a certain level of protection from them,
and reports and films from the front lines.
While she claims she is not at the level of a war correspondent,
a similar person is reporter Kim Young-mi.
She is a war correspondent who has traveled all over the world to conflict and war zones
and has faced life-threatening situations many times.
The photos prove it.
The first photo is reporter Kim Young-mi, and the one below is Lee Jin-sook in Baghdad.
At that time, she didn't have permission as a US military war correspondent, nor did she intend to get it;
she just messed around in downtown Baghdad for a few days, returned home, and became a hero.
This past January, after seeing the PD Notebook episode where reporter Kim Young-mi
difficultly obtained permission from the Ukrainian government to interview North Korean prisoners of war,
I felt very sad watching the broadcast.