Since 2014, he has been reporting on the Korean peninsula for a wide range of German-language publications. His research on North Korean refugees culminated in his first book publication “So etwas wie Glück” in August 2015. In spring 2017 he traveled across the Sino–Korean border to report on the economic transformations happening in North Korea. Prior to that, Fabian Kretschmer lived in Vienna where he was writing for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. With scholarship-programs of the Bosch foundation he has reported in-depth from China and India.