A native Korean, Sukie Park studied journalism and film & theater in Seoul. In March 2012, she founded www.NYCultureBeat.com, a Korean-language website about cultural events, food, shopping, sightseeing and people in New York City, for which she contributes original stories on a daily basis. In 2013-2014, she has also contributed interviews and articles on Korean artist, actors, musicians and chefs to "Inside Korea," a special section distributed with The New York Times' Friday edition. From June 2004 through December 2011, she was the principal journalist covering cultural affairs, food and travel for The Korea Daily in New York(Joongang libo), the largest Korean-language newspaper in the New York metropolitan area. Sukie previously worked as a reporter with several Korean cinema, photography and video magazines, as a writer at Korean radio(KBS-2FM) and television (MBC-TV) stations, and as a copywriter at a video company. She has also edited two books, "The Movie That Changed My Life", a collection of essays by Korean filmmakers, actors and writers, and "Drawing Helen Kim: The Master Who Changed Our Lives", a collection of writings about the first President of Ewha Womans University. NYCultureBeat received the 2014 Cultural Merits Award from H&Y Marketplace. Sukie has lived in New York City since January of 1996.