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Mary Paik Lee was born on 17 August, 1900 in Pyongyang, Korean Empire (now North Korea), is a Korean American writer (1900–1995). Discover Mary Paik Lee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?
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94 years old |
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Leo |
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17 August, 1900 |
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17 August |
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Pyongyang, Korean Empire (now North Korea) |
| Date of death |
14 February, 1995 |
| Died Place |
San Francisco, California, United States |
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North Korea
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Mary Paik Lee Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Mary Paik Lee worth at the age of 94 years old? Mary Paik Lee’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from North Korea. We have estimated Mary Paik Lee's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Mary Paik Lee (August 17, 1900 – February 14, 1995 ) was a Korean American writer most known for her autobiography, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America.
Lee was born Paek Kuang-Sun in Pyongyang (now the capital of North Korea) in the Korean Empire in 1900.
Her father, Paik Sin Koo, came from a line of ministers and teachers.
She was born in the Korean Empire and moved to the United States in 1905, eventually settling in Riverside, California in 1906.
Over the course of her life, Lee, her parents, and her husband would suffer many hardships.
They moved to Hawaii in 1905 in response to the forced annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire.
When they arrived in Hawaii, her father became a contract laborer on a sugar plantation.
After facing extreme discrimination, they moved to Riverside, California in 1906.
The Paik family arrived in Riverside without much money or any immediate plans.
After conferring with friends, they decided that Lee's mother could cook for about 30 men.
Her father didn't want her to work, but they did not have much choice.
They had to borrow materials from Chinese immigrants in order to start the cooking business.
On Saturdays, Mary would go to the slaughterhouse and collect the animal organs that the butchers threw out and thought not appropriate to sell.
She competed with Mexican children for the preferred pieces of meat while the butchers laughed at them.
At one point, she told her father that she didn't want to continue going because they were making fun of her but her father told her to be grateful that the butchers threw out the meat, or else they would starve.
When Mary was old enough, she went to school.
On her first day, she was intimidated and frightened by a group of girls who danced in a circle around her.
She was also frightened when the teacher welcomed her so she ran back home.
She also found out that their Korean names were hard to remember so she decided to give her younger siblings American names while they were young.
She and her older brother decided that it was too late for them to have American names.
Her memoir, Quiet Odyssey, was published in 1990.
It is noted for being one of the few memoirs by an Asian American woman, and the only memoir by a Korean American woman that covers the majority of the twentieth century.
She provides an important cultural viewpoint on the last century, from the perspective of one of America's first Korean pioneers.
She published her biography in 1990 and died in San Francisco, California in 1995.
Mary married H.M. Lee and had 3 sons.
She also continued to provide assistance to her parents and siblings.
Though there was a constant battle with prejudice and discrimination, she worked hard to provide.
"Constructing 'Home' in Mary Paik Lee's Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America."
Susan L. Roberson.U of Missouri P, 1998.
"A Shared Pacific Arena: Empire, Agriculture, and the Life Narratives of Mary Paik Lee, Angeles Monrayo, and Mary Tomita."
Frontiers 34.2 (2013): 25,51,272.
