Background
She grew up in Union City, California, a suburb southeast of San Francisco.
She grew up in Union City, California, a suburb southeast of San Francisco.
University of California, Berkeley.
She joined Music Television News as a correspondent in May 2001. Pak never planned on a career in television In 1992, she placed 8th in the state of California.
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 then-National Broadcasting Company (now MyNetwork television) affiliate in San Francisco.
This "after-school job" became Pak"s introduction to the entertainment world. Her first big interview for the show was Ice-T.
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 (now G4), she was recruited to be a correspondent on KRON. Looking to move on from San Francisco, she 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 City.
From there, Music Television spotted her and she was soon the first Asian face of Music Television. She has covered the Music Television Movie Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Music Television Video Music Awards.
She also co-hosted, with Kurt Loder, Music Television"s pre-Grammy show. On March 6, 2012, she hosted Demi Lovato: Stay Strong — The After Show. Pak hosted her own Music Television documentary about multicultural young people called My Life (Translated).
She currently narrates Music Television Cribs as well.
In 2007, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, revealing that she has struggled with confidence and beauty issues for many years. She mainly spoke about her epicanthal folds, and explained how her family and other Asians believe a double eyelid is crucial to beauty.
She also mentioned how epicanthoplasty is the top form of plastic surgery being done in Asia. In 2008, Pak had left Music Television News for Planet Green to host G Word, which is co-hosted by Daniel Sieberg.
In 2010, Pak returned to Music Television News and hosted the VMAs Pre Show.
Recently, Pak has been the host for the National Constitution Center"s "The Exchange", a program in which high school students discuss their views on relevant constitutional issues. In 2012, Pak was hired as the new on-air correspondent for Daily Candy, an email newsletter based in New New York
While attending James Logan High School, she volunteered for the Young Men’s Christian Association program Youth and Government, an organization aimed at involving and educating young people in the political process. She was interviewed for the news by KGO-television, the American Broadcasting Company affiliate in San Francisco for the show Straight Talk "North Teens. While attending the University of California, Berkeley as a political science major, Pak was once again discovered, when the producer of a Public Broadcasting Service science show called Newton"s Apple saw a tape of her.
As a correspondent for "Music Television Daily News", she has interviewed Mariah Carey, *NSYNC, P. Diddy, George Lucas, Jane"s Addiction, Mary J. Blige, Billy Idol, and Fred Durst.
She was also a member of the school"s forensics team, in which she did expository speaking.