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• Studied at a boarding school in London.
• Lived in Koreatown, alone in a studio apartment, while finishing high school in Los Angeles.
• Realized she enjoyed learning about people's stories while working as a bartender, and decided to enroll in film school.
• Spike Lee was one of her professors at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
• The first Asian woman to win Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards.