CHUNG HYON SUK - MEDIA LIAISON ASSISTANT MANAGER

Many Club members who attend Professional Activities Committee events such as luncheon speeches may not realize how much work goes into organizing them. In fact, two of our staffers spend almost all of their time on this. One of them is Chung Hyon Suk, media liaison assistant manager. Chung started working at the Club in 2000 as a part-time waitress in the Main Bar, where she says she had lots of fun and enjoyed communicating with journalist members. But after just a year she moved to the library, where she worked part time until Media Liaison Manager Wayne Hunter asked her in 2005 to help him with professional activities. She’s been in that job full time ever since.

Chung, who holds a black belt in karate, was born in Tokyo to Korean parents. Having majored in English at university with the intention of becoming a teacher like her father, she is fluent in Japanese, Korean and English and is certified as a Japanese-Korean interpreter, but feels most comfortable in Japanese. She did in fact teach high-school English for several years at Korean high schools in both Hiroshima and Tokyo but ultimately decided, to the Club’s benefit, that teaching wasn’t for her.
Commuting from her home in Soka, Saitama prefecture, Chung has her hands full raising two teenage sons with her husband, who is secretary to the president of a small company that runs restaurants and pachinko parlors. During her spare time she swims, practices yoga, plays the piano and listens to classical music.

Her favorite composer is Rachmaninoff. Meanwhile, her job forces her to
study. “That makes me very happy,” Chung says.