I AM KOREAN AMERICAN

Own Words

Some of my first memories are from living in the U.S. Army base in YongSan, South Korea. We were sad to leave Korea right before the 1988 Summer Olympics.

I was born to a Korean father and an American mother. My parents met while attending college in Michigan. My father left Korea for the U.S. when he was just a boy to live with his sister who married a U.S. Army soldier.

I spent most of my life in Maryland. It was hard being teased in grade school for being the new kid, Asian, and overweight. I graduated from college with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and worked as a video editor for a local ABC news affiliate in Arlington, VA for a stint before moving to Seattle.

I met my wonderful husband about 10 years ago and we now have a sweet little girl who we named Julia SoonAe (she was born in October 2009). We also have a floppy fluffy goldendoodle (poodle-golden retriever) named Muppet.