Mr. Alastair Gale is the Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal in Seoul, South Korea since January 2011. He has spent most of his professional career in Asia, including a decade in Japan, where he joined the company in 1999. He moved to Singapore in 2004 to take up a position as a regional managing editor for six years before relocating to Seoul. He is a British national and graduated from Bristol University in the UK in 1993.