When the Children Crashed Dad’s BBC Interview: The Family Speaks
In their first interview, Korea expert Robert Kelly and his wife Kim Jung-A describe the circumstances, chaos, and global reaction to their now-infamous home-office Skype catastrophe; ‘she was in a hippity-hoppity mood’
In their first interview since their children interrupted a live BBC segment on Korean affairs, Robert Kelly and his wife Kim Jung-A discuss the original BBC interview: “It’s a comedy of errors,” Mr. Kelly said. Photo: Miho Inada/The Wall Street Journal
Near the end of a long day of radio and TV appearances from home, Robert Kelly, an expert on East Asian affairs, prepared for another live video interview at 7 p.m.
As he finished up a soda and tightened his necktie before a Skype call from the BBC, he forgot to lock the door of his office in his high-rise apartment in Busan, South Korea’s second-biggest city, something he usually does.
That oversight has set off one of the...