SuChin Pak

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SuChin Pak (Korean: 박수진, born August 15, 1976) is an American television news correspondent, frequently appearing on the cable networks of MTV.

SuChin Pak joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May of 2001.^[1] She has covered the MTV Movie Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, and the MTV Video Music Awards. She also co-hosted, with Kurt Loder, the MTV's pre-Grammy show. 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. SuChin hosted her own MTV documentary about multicultural young people called My Life (Translated)^[2]. She currently narrates MTV Cribs as well.

Born in Korea, Pak immigrated along with her parents to California when she was five years old. She grew up in Union City, a suburb south of San Francisco. Her parents own a small restaurant in downtown Oakland.

SuChin never planned on a career in television. While attending James Logan High School, she volunteered for Youth in Government, an organization aimed at involving and educating young people in the political process, SuChin was interviewed for the news by KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco. The program director for another station happened to see the piece and approached her to host the teen-based magazine show First Cut on KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco. This "after-school job" became SuChin's introduction to the entertainment world. Her first big interview for the show was Ice-T.

While attending the University of California, Berkeley as a political science major, SuChin was once again discovered, when the producer of a PBS science show called "Newton's Apple" saw a tape of her. Following graduation, she was approached by ZDTV (first changed to TechTV, now called G4), a cable network devoted to technology and the Internet. After a year working on Internet Tonight, a daily half-hour show at ZDTV, she was recruited to be a correspondent on KRON. Looking to move on from San Francisco, SuChin sent in a tape to the start-up cable network Oxygen. After a year-long audition process, she was hired as a host for the show "Trackers" and moved to New York. From there, MTV spotted her and she was soon the first Asian face of MTV.

[edit] Trivia

In one of her very early interviews, she called Ice Cube-Ice Pick.
The Celebrity Deathmatch character Tally Wong is a parody of SuChin.
She was a member of the nationally recognized James Logan Forensics Team [1], in which she did expository speaking.