Mina Sue Choi biography: 13 things about Miss Earth 2022

Mina Sue Choi (최미나수) is a Korean model and beauty queen from Incheon, South Korea. She is the second South Korean woman to win a grand slam international beauty pageant following Miss Supranational 2017 Jenny Kim.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Korean parents, Choi has relatives not only in South Korea but also in Australia, Canada and the United States.She once booked a ticket to Bali, Indonesia without informing her parents, which was her first time traveling alone to an unfamiliar place.

Choi is 5’8″ tall. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 1998, she and her family moved from Sydney to South Korea.
2. In 2002, she and her family moved from South Korea to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They later moved to the U.S., to China and back back to South Korea.
3. In 2017, she graduated from Seoul Foreign School in Seoul, South Korea.
4. In November 2019, she was in Santa Monica, California, USA.
5. On March 1, 2021, she was at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, USA where she was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in communications.
6. On October 15, 2021, she won Miss Gyeonggi-Incheon 2021.
7. On November 16, 2021, she competed at Miss Korea 2021 in Paju, Gyeonggi, South Korea. She was runner-up to Min-ji Cho.
8. She finished seventh in the survival program “Battle for Tenancy: Penthouse”, which aired on Channel A from July 12, 2022 to September 13, 2022.
9. On November 29, 2022, she represented South Korea at Miss Earth 2022 and competed against 85 other candidates at the Okada Manila in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. She won the crown.
10. On June 18, 2023, she traveled to Bangkok, Thailand. On July 16, 2023, she visited Vietnam for the first time. On July 20, 2023, she visited DUYTAN Plastic Recycling Factory in Đức Hòa Hạ, Long An, Vietnam. On July 22, 2023, she returned to South Korea.
11. In August 2023, she traveled to Japan and India. On September 20, 2023, she attended the Miss Earth Singapore 2023 coronation night at One Farrer Hotel Singapore in Singapore.
12. On December 22, 2023, she crowned her successor Miss Earth 2023 Drita Ziri in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
13. On February 22, 2024, she turned 25.

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