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Following a long career as a news anchor with major broadcasters like CNN and ABC, May Lee has transformed into a media entrepreneur. The 41-year-old Korean-American earned the nickname "Asia's Oprah Winfrey" when she launched the "The May Lee Show" earlier this year.
Airing in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, the talk show generated buzz when Lee's own Lotus Media House production company began the project.
Lee, who serves as both the show's host and its executive producer, has found the business more difficult than she expected. "I think I would have been more prepared that I was going to go through a phase of loneliness, of depression," Lee said in an interview with the Asian Wall Street Journal on Monday.
While the show is garnering high ratings and good reviews, it remains in the red because of a lack of sponsors. "If this were a men's show about cars, or whatever, I would easily get sponsors," Lee complained in the interview.
Born in Ohio, at age two Lee moved with her family to Seoul where they lived for three years. After studying journalism at Mills College in Oakland, California, she worked in several different positions in broadcast news.
Lee was the correspondent for CNN in Tokyo, the primary anchor for CNN International in Hong Kong, a national news anchor for ABC News in New York, a national correspondent for ABC's Los Angeles bureau, and the primary anchor for CNBC Asia.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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