Excerpt from commentary by SuChin Pak about "My Life (Translated)":

I wasn't born here, English wasn't my first language. Outside of my house it was America, 1997, inside: Seoul, Korea, circa 1967. The world had nothing to do with what went on in my home. My parents spoke Korean, ate Korean food, watched Korean television and outside, I had a sexy skater boyfriend, I wore blue eyeliner, I snuck out to the mall and generally tried my best to not look as different as I felt.

"My Life (Translated)" is a documentary series about the lives of multicultural young people. It deals with friends, family, love and school and all of the tricky spaces between those words. It's about being caught between two different cultures, and struggling to do what your parents expect you to do and what you really want to do.

But this isn't show about trying to be American and forgetting where you're from -- it's about young people wanting to be both.

About SuChin Pak:

SuChin Pak joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May of 2001. Over the past year, she has covered the MTV Movie Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, and the MTV Video Music Awards. Additionally, she joined Kurt Loder this past February as co-host of MTV's pre-Grammy show.

Beyond the world of entertainment, SuChin covered the aftermath of September 11th for MTV News, contributing segments on young people volunteering and Muslim American women.

SuChin never planned on a career in television. During high school while volunteering 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 the station happened to see the piece and approached her to host "Straight Talk 'N Teens," a new magazine format teen show covering everything from entertainment to topical issues such as teen pregnancy and drug abuse. This "after-school job" became SuChin's introduction to the entertainment world. She was also one of the hosts of PBS Science show "Newton's Apple" while in college. Before joining MTV, she also worked at ZDTV (the predecessor to Tech TV) and cable network Oxygen.

Born in Korea, SuChin and her family moved to the Bay Area when she was five years old. She graduated with a degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

For more information on the series, see this website: http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mylifetranslated/