Oscar

Kim

Bauman

Headshot of Oscar Kim Bauman, a young man with black hair and glasses, wearing a dark green suit jacket, against an off-white background 
Photo by Nick Sng

NYC-BASED MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST

ABOUT OSCAR

Oscar Kim Bauman is a journalist born, raised, and based in New York City. With over seven years of experience in print and broadcast journalism, he currently works as a Page at NBCUniversal. He is a former intern for WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart, and a freelance writer with bylines in outlets including JoySauce, Our Town NY, and the West Side Spirit.

Oscar is an alumnus of Wesleyan University. There, he served as Editor-in-Chief and Podcast Host at The Wesleyan Argus, Academic Chair of the Asian American Student Collective, and a member of The Korean Student Association. He graduated in 2023, earning Honors in English for the thesis Secret Agency: Espionage, Authorship, and Race in Contemporary Asian American Fiction.

For over five years, Oscar hosted The K-Pop Power Hour, a radio show dedicated to discussion and analysis of Korean pop music that broadcast on WESU, 88.1 FM Middletown. The show aired, minus a pandemic interruption, from October 2018 to January 2024.

Oscar has experience in a wide range of topics and formats, from personal essays to deeply reported investigative pieces, breaking local news to incisive cultural criticism. He often draws from his multiracial heritage to highlight underrepresented perspectives. His first love is the space of arts and culture, but he’s always seeking to take on new challenges.