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May Lee, who became the first Korean-American anchor and correspondent for CNN in the 1990s, has started her own eponymous show on Hong Kong-based Star TV. The diminutive journalist left ABC to become the main business anchor on CNBC in 2004, notching up jobs with three major U.S. broadcasters. The hour-long "May Lee Show" will be broadcast on Star World, Star TV¡¯s English-language channel. It will deal with issues from divorce and rape to cooking and feature personalities from politics and show business along the lines of the "Oprah Winfrey Show.¡±
Thursday¡¯s show featured the Chinese actress Joan Chen, Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, and Bobby Chinn, a celebrity chef who runs a restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam. Lee, who started her career as a reporter with a small TV channel in Ohio, has co-hosted the two-hour talk show "Pure Oxygen,¡± at Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Media. Lee says she considers Winfrey her role model. "Asian women were breaking out of their shells, growing independent,¡± she is quoted as saying in a press release. ¡°They had a need for a voice, but there was nothing in the media that provided them with a platform.¡±
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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