evidence: Recalling her journey from South Korea to USA with her parents at the age of five, Ambassador Chung said how she still possesses the memory of a weeping kid who was compelled to leave all her familiar friends, places and people as her parents wanted to migrate to the USA seeking a better life. [...] Joined the Foreign Service in 1996 in the first cohort of the Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship program Ambassador Chung who previously served as principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs was also the director for the Japan Desk and acting deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister Counsellor, she has served as deputy chief of mission in Cambodia and economic counsellor in Thailand. Other overseas assignments include Baghdad, Bogotá, Guangzhou, Tokyo and Hanoi. While working in the Office of Korean Affairs in Washington, D.C., she frequently travelled to North Korea to implement the U.S.–North Korea Agreed Framework. [...] Ambassador Chung recalled how she and her husband hopped on a train from Colombo Fort to go to Anuradhapura. Ï was pregnant with my son when I climbed Sigiriya during that trip. So, when I got the list of countries that I could choose to be posted as Ambassador, my husband was also really excited about this country. He’s from an island called Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. So he liked to live in an island. I like the people here. Since I don’t have any allergies and can eat lots of spices I enjoy Sri Lankan food.