SuChin Pak Biography
SuChin Pak is a South Korean-born American television news correspondent and podcaster best known for her work with MTV News in the early 2000s. She began working as a correspondent for MTV News in May 2001.
SuChin Pak Age
Pak was born on 15 August 1976, in Seoul, South Korea. She is 47 years old as of August 2023.
SuChin Pak Family
Pak, who was born in Seoul, South Korea, moved to California with her parents when she was five years old. She grew up in Union City, California, a San Francisco suburb. Her parents own a tiny restaurant in Oakland, California’s downtown.
SuChin Pak Husband- Married
On March 24, 2012, Pak married Mike Bender, co-founder of AwkwardFamilyPhotos. The couple has two children together, the first of which is a son born in 2012.
SuChin Pak Career
She volunteered for the YMCA program Youth and Government while attending James Logan High School, an organization dedicated to involving and educating young people in the political process. She also participated in the school’s forensics squad, where she did expository speaking. She finished eighth in the state of California in 1992. KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco, interviewed her for the news show Straight Talk ‘N Teens. After seeing the story, the program director for another station invited her to host the teen-focused magazine show First Cut on KRON, the then-NBC affiliate in San Francisco. This “after-school job” introduced Pak to the world of entertainment. Ice-T was her first big interview on the show.
Pak was discovered again while studying political science at the University of California, Berkeley, when the producer of a PBS science documentary called Newton’s Apple watched a film of her. She was approached by ZDTV, a cable network focused to technology and the Internet, after graduating. She was hired as a KRON correspondent after a year of working on Internet Tonight, a daily half-hour show on ZDTV. She sent a tape to the new cable network Oxygen in order to leave San Francisco. She was hired as a host for the show Trackers after a year-long audition process and relocated to New York City. MTV noticed her and she quickly became MTV’s first Asian face.
She has covered the MTV Movie Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, and the MTV Video Music Awards, and she co-hosted MTV’s pre-Grammy show with Kurt Loder. As a correspondent for “MTV Daily News,” she has interviewed Mariah Carey, *NSYNC, P. Diddy, George Lucas, Jane’s Addiction, Mary J. Blige, Billy Idol, and Fred Durst. On March 6, 2012, she hosted Demi Lo.
Pak departed MTV News for Planet Green in 2008 to co-host G Word with Daniel Sieberg. Pak returned to MTV News in 2010 to anchor the VMAs Pre Show. Pak recently hosted the National Constitution Center’s “The Exchange,” a program in which high school students debate current constitutional issues. Pak was appointed as the new on-air correspondent for DailyCandy, a New York-based email newsletter. In 2016, she co-hosted People’s List, an ABC weekly summer primetime infotainment series based on People magazine. Pak joined Lemonada Media’s podcast slate in October 2020 as the co-host of the new show Add to Cart alongside comedian and actress Kulap Vilaysack.
SuChin Pak Net Worth
SuChin has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
