Beautiful, Strong, and On Top Of The World Not just two pretty faces, these twin beauties are spreading through the metaphysical world like wildfire. Working as psychics at a very early age, the girls learned the hard way about survival in the big city. Not just any city, but the big apple, New York City; hard, cold and cruel for any teenager who is determined to make it on their own. Contrary to belief, life for the twins was not always easy. We will explore the lives of Sunhee and Chinhee Park in a candid interview; they are honest, open and bold, yet soft and loveable. As never been told before, the girls talked with me about their lives and the difficulties they experienced growing up. It’s no wonder that the world has fallen in love with them. Could you both tell me about yourselves? Later we will get into your childhood, but for now, just tell me briefly about yourselves. Sunhee: I am basically a psychic, channeler, and healer and I do get mediumship messages, too. Basically what happens for me is that it is more on the physical end. So how I connect is through physical ailments. For example, if somebody sprains their ankle in the past I will feel it if it didn’t heal properly, and then, what happens is, I am connected to them. That is how I start channeling. I get messages all about their lives and what is going on at that time. I also get spirits that are around them that if they didn’t have a good relationship with them, which is the opposite of what mediums do! Unfortunately, I also pick up on those who are about to pass. I intuitively know when to give the message to them. Sometimes people can’t handle it, so I use my better judgment on how it will affect the person before I deliver the message. I actually feel myself being stifled from saying it! We know who is ready to hear it. It is a precognition of death. Also I can see ailments and find the root of its cause. If someone has back problems, it’s like they’re carrying something from their past, and I will find the root of the reason of who they are acting out, whether it be their father or mother. I’m like, “Hey how’s it going dating your father!” When I bring that up, they realize and own it, and many times their back will stop hurting. So it’s almost like a revelation of the physical aspect all the way to the emotional. I can’t explain it. I don’t see visuals. I get messages like the crawler across my forehead. I have to spit it out quickly or I will get stressed out. Chinhee: I am probably the other end of the spectrum! Where Sunhee is more physical, mine is more emotional. I am highly empathic; I am also a medium and do healing of emotions. Many of my clients have been abused, are victims and people that are in dysfunctional relationships, or those with major disorders. Intuitively, I pick up on their emotions; I can feel where they are at, and what could be triggering that. I help them get to the root of the issue, why they’re in a dysfunctional relationship and how to deal with that. It’s pretty much all intuitive at the moment. I mean, I really can’t predict how a reading is going to go in the end. I bring about healing in the situation. I am so highly empathic. I can actually put myself in the position that they’re in. I feel it emotionally. It’s enlightening to inspire and motivate them. Dysfunctional people, people usually have to disconnect from their emotions to focus on themselves. Typically when I am working with a client, I get visuals of what they look like and who they’re talking about. That is usually how I start off the reading; I describe the people I am referring to.
Chinhee, can you give me an example of this? Tell me about a time when you were greatly impacted by your work?
Chinhee: One woman that called me, before she even said anything and the reason for her call, I knew why she was calling. I immediately asked if she had a little girl about 5 years old. I told her that I felt that she had been seriously violated. The woman, surprised, said that was the purpose of her call. The mother then said that she was going out of her way to get justice and support for her little girl. It amazed me, because I never had that type of support from my mother. It really affected me. I got to say hello to the little girl and she was so cute and precious. I told her she didn’t do anything wrong. The child then thanked me for telling her that. It affected me because her mother went all out for her and supported her. It triggered me with my issues because I didn’t have that. She wanted spiritual guidance and was going through the court to get justice. I felt such a rollercoaster of emotions because I felt so compassionate for that child. I was so amazed at her mother’s support. It was unbelievable. I felt so much love for the child. It was a healing process for me even though I have dealt with those old issues.
How are you both able to separate from these emotions that you feel from people?
Chinhee: When it comes to clients, I can. When it comes to my personal life? Well that is a lot harder! Thank goodness I have my twin to snap me
out of it.
Sunhee: Yes! It’s like living with 3 Chinhee’s! (The girls both chuckle)
Chinhee: I am still learning to shake it off; I don’t drink or do drugs. I take care of myself and eat organic foods that help me to shield. In my personal life, it’s a little harder because I am emotionally attached. I don’t do any protection per say. I get myself mentally and emotionally prepared. I make sure I am well grounded. I can usually feel beforehand if the reading will be intense or emotionally deep. I ground myself spiritually and emotionally. I usually eat after a reading and get out of the house to remove the energy. We work at home so sometimes getting out helps a lot to shake it off. I think my major advantage is that I have a twin. I don’t think I could do it without her. We are always together; we might as well be Siamese twins!
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out of it.
Sunhee when did you realize you had abilities as a healer?
Sunhee: Well, I was about 21 years old. I had a near death experience. I got beat up and didn’t go to the hospital. I was outside my body watching them beat me. I remember I had bruised and sore ribs. I had a concussion, and I basically healed myself. At first, I felt sorry for myself, I was so shocked I was violated and abused. I was lying on the couch in pain and I looked at my hands and I said to Chinhee, ‘I feel like I am different, or weird. I feel like my hands are like electricity. What if I can heal myself?’ Later that night I used my hands and healed myself. Within 2 days I was absolutely fine. Ever since then I was picking up on peoples’ aliments, even at the subway, the sidewalks, and then to my sister!
Chinhee: Yea, no privacy! I had a toothache and there she was healing it! The toothache was gone and I didn’t have to go to the dentist!
Sunhee: I don’t have to touch somebody to heal them. For example, I close my eyes and I can imagine that let’s say Belle has a sinus headache. I would close my eyes and go into a meditative state, like another plane. I am mediating and channeling. I can see a picture of Belle’s forehead, and I focus myself. She will either begin to get calmer or quieter, or even chatty, depending on the personality type. Then her headache will be gone, and her sinus’ cleared.
(Belle interjects) “Funny you say that, because I have had a sinus headache the past 3 days!”
Chinhee: Oh really? (The girls begin to laugh)
Sunhee: Yea, you see!
Chinhee: Oh, I have a testimony to my sister’s healing as well. I remember one time I had been assaulted and beaten up by a group of bad people in New York City at night. New York City is a rough city! I came out of that, and I remember I was in the hospital. I had been punched in the face like 5 times. I heard it crack. My sister came in and she healed me and all I had was a small red mark on my nose. The nurse was looking at me and she said the police report says I was unconscious. She thought I would have broken face bones and broken ribs. I had an OBE (Out of Body Experience) because I was watching myself get beaten. It was weird. I heard the cracks and the boots in my ribs. I thought I was going to die. I was in a fetal position. I actually didn’t press any charges. One of the girl’s that assaulted me begged me not to do it. They had been drinking. The girl apologized, so I decided not to press any charges.
Sunhee: Oh, I remember that! She got attacked at a club. I ran to get her and the bouncer held me back. I thought she was dead. I was so freaked out. I saw what they were doing to her. I thought she’d be in the hospital for a long time. She was rushed to the hospital. I went in to see her and began to focus and touch and heal her. Later that day she was reviewed by the doctors and they were surprised that she had no broken bones. My sister walked out of the hospital like nothing had happened!
When did you first realize you had psychic abilities?
Sunhee: Well, Chinhee saw the spirit of our grandfather. I was around 5 or 6 years old. I would feel him. I felt our house was packed with spirits. I would feel them, that is how it started. I didn’t like being in the dark alone. I would hide because I thought there were monsters in my room. I was too busy being scared to discuss it with my sister.
Chinhee: I remember I was 5 years old. I saw him, it was so clear, he didn’t look dead. He was walking in the hall toward the room I was sleeping in and he was coming toward me with his cane and smoking his cigar. He had just passed away. I saw him with my own eyes, just like he was there. We were sleeping at our grandmother’s. He was Irish, our adopted mom’s dad.
Sunhee: I would feel him and smelled the cigars. I didn’t know it was him because I was so little.
Chinhee: The first time we really talked to one another about our abilities was when we were 14 and we both had the same nightmare of our mom dying. Then I was like, ‘wow!’
Sunhee: It was really late and she had come into my room and she said she had just had a nightmare that mom died, I said ‘so did I!’ I started crying because that was our first close experience of death. I said I felt mom was going to die and wasn’t going to be around us anymore. I mean, we had both just had the same dream!
Chinhee: Everyone had been telling us she wasn’t that sick, she had cancer, but they said she wasn’t dying. That’s the reason it came to us in nightmare form.
Sunhee: After the dream, Chinhee climbed into to bed with me that night. Our mom had cancer and everybody was saying she was going to live for years and that she wasn’t that sick. Meanwhile, she was dying. She was on heavy medication for her cancer.
Chinhee: Yes, then 2 days later she died.
Sunhee: Yea, we both were in class. I was in English class and I started crying. I told my friends I had to go call my mom. I knew she was dying or dead. I went downstairs to the nurse and she told me she was dead. I went to my sister’s class room and she already knew; we freaked out and we were crying.
Chinhee: Yes, we both found out in 1st period class. I was actually in my art class. I was drawing a picture of the NYC building because I knew that is where we were heading. I quickly turned it in and got an A+ on it. My teacher handed it back and then Sunhee was there.
Sunhee: Yes, I walked into her classroom, she looked up at me and she knew. She didn’t say a word. She got her books and walked out with me. I didn’t have to say anything. I felt like I was dead. Of course, it wasn’t really her, she was on drugs for cancer but she abused her meds and drank with it. She was abusive even more when she drank and used drugs. She always knew our dad was doing stuff to us. I told her but she didn’t believe me or didn’t want to believe me.
Let’s go back to your childhood. What was it like growing up?
Sunhee: Do you really want to hear the ugly truth, it was so nasty.
I will leave that up to you, only if you want to talk about it. I want you to be comfortable about what you want to reveal.
Sunhee: Yea, Sure, then people will understand who we are and where we come from. Our whole childhood was about lies, deceit, and sexual molestation. It was emotional and verbal abuse. I want people to understand what happened to us.
Chinhee: – and physical! My mother never believed me when I told her what he did to us. That is why that call affected me so much. The story about the mother calling about her daughter earlier in the interview, it was because I never had that from my mother. My client was so loving and supportive of her daughter, I never had that.
Sunhee: A lot of people think my sister and I have had it so easy and we were spoiled brats, which is not true.
Chinhee: Our father was a pedophile and a closet alcoholic.
Sunhee: Our mother was an alcoholic, drug addict and also got physical, and she was abusive verbally and emotionally. Of course, it wasn’t really her, she was on drugs for cancer but she abused her meds and drank with it. She was abusive even more when she drank and used drugs. Gee, I wondered why they even adopted us.
Chinhee: Don’t forget about our adopted brothers from the Bronx. They lived with us and sexually abused us, too. I tried to tell my mother but she didn’t believe me, she was in denial.
Sunhee: Well, after high school I went to college.
Chinhee: Yes, I had to stay back. I had to heal from what was going on, and my dad had a controlling hold on me. We were separated for the first time. It was like half of me was gone. It didn’t go good without my sister. I was not fully there. I probably would have been better in college.
Sunhee: I felt ill. It’s almost like half of you is gone. It’s like your half functioning. I felt her all the time. I couldn’t focus because she was still living with her abuser. Chinhee was depressed and slept all the time. It was hard to focus because I knew what was happening back there. A twin can feel that. Later Chinhee went to another college and we were still separated. We had said we would meet up later in New York City after our college.
Chinhee: What happened was that we didn’t finish college. We just couldn’t do it at that time; we were still apart. So we both ended up going to NYC and meeting each other there. That is where our life began, in the entertainment industry. (Chinhee begins to joke with her sister) So I am 4 credits away from an associates and she 3 credits away from an art degree- (the girls begin to laugh)
Suhee: Ahhh, shutup.
What happened to your father after you moved out? Did you continue to talk to him?
Sunhee: Once we moved out to New York City, we disconnected from him. I screamed at my father and told him we were going press charges for the stuff he did to us. We cut him off for many years. We disconnected. I did stop communication with him. Toward the 6th year after we had cut off from him, for many years, we found out he was dying. I still didn’t want to contact him, but he had left us all this money and assets. He kept saying he was poor all his life. He had saved all his money, didn’t feel self worth to spend it on anything good. He ended up saving it all for us, for his guilt and compensation for what he did to us.
Did you ever get an apology from him?
Sunhee: We didn’t get an apology for the abuse, but we got cash and assets. It’s amazing somebody can say that they are poor everyday for 80 years and then they die and they have saved a quarter of a million dollars. Do you understand? It is ridiculous! How can you bold face lie so bad, but it was that he was saving up to give it all to us because of what he did. It was like he was apologizing. He did feel like he was going, and it’s strange because we didn’t have a full conversation for an hour. He never supported us in our psychic stuff; he never supported us at all. He asked us how we were doing; it was all about the weather. Then 3 days before he died, he called us up and started to say, ‘I am proud of you guys.’
Chinhee: I support you guys.
Sunhee: I am sorry things had to be the way they were.
Chinhee: No he didn’t come out and say it specifically; he was saying he was sorry in general.
Sunhee: yeah, in general.
Chinhee: Well it was good enough for us; because he knew he was dying, ya know? It was good we got that kind of closure before he left.
Sunhee: He did apologize for the way things were. He knew he was dying and that is why he contacted us. He never supported us in anything. Three days before he died, he said he supported us in what we were doing. He finally said for the first time that he was proud of us. He said he was sorry things were that way, but never came out and admitted the abuse. It was good enough for us to forgive him.
How did you start your career as a psychic?
Sunhee: Well, we had moved to New York City. Chinhee had a meltdown. I guess all the healing was coming out at that time, and overwhelmed her. Two years before that I was doing healings first. There were people lined up for me to do healings outside my apartment. I had built a clientele. I would charge $100 an hour. I stopped when her breakdown happened, but I was always practicing and exercising my ability. I had always had a part-time job, too. At that point, she had gotten to be agora-phobic and couldn’t leave the apartment. I had to take care of my sister during her breakdown. I was like, ‘Jesus! I can’t leave to go to work, I can’t leave you. We’re screwed!’ I then decided to start a business from home and did psychic phone work from home. We had a website built and I began to work from home. The first time I turned on the phone, I got so many calls back to back. I charged 50 cents a minute. This was my first shot at psychic readings. I was always just doing healings. I did phone readings and it went very well.
Chinhee: It was debilitating. It took awhile to get it over. I finally overcame my agora-phobia. It is a chemical imbalance issue and I had gotten it under control. I then joined Sunhee on the reading business. Sunhee said I had taken long enough of a vacation and now that I was well, I could work with her. She helped me develop my abilities.
Sunhee: I helped my sister with her abilities. She was a little scared at first, but it didn’t take long for her to get over that. She soon was doing very well with her readings and was able to help with the support. I was working a whole year before her, and I was doing well.
Chinhee: You know how you go to the pool and you stick your foot in the pool to test the water and it’s too cold? Well, Sunhee is the one who comes by and pushes you in!
Sunhee: Then she’s not cold anymore!
So is it safe to say that Sunhee is a little more outgoing and you’re a little more timid, Chinhee?
Chinhee: Not just outgoing, but aggressively outgoing!
Sunhee: (Joking) oh, hell yea! (Lots of laughter)
Tell me about your first radio show.
Sunhee: In 2005, a psychic we didn’t even know called us up and offered us a free program on his radio network. He called us up and said we were great and wanted us on the air. Radio was a great experience. His name was Keith. We were at ‘Mix Talk,’ it was a small station. We did readings on
the air. It was a great learning experience. We later had our own show on CBS. Our fans miss us. They miss our laugh, our jokes, and ask us to come back. We decided to quit our radio programs for the opportunity to pursue television/video work.
Chinhee: We get emails all the time asking when we will return to the radio. Sorry, We aren’t planning to return to radio.
Sunhee: We are now in the process of creating our very own television show. We can’t say what it is right now because it is still in the works. Very reputable producers found us and felt a connection with us and wanted to do a show that was something different. We are shooting our episodes and will be finishing that up soon. We are also excited that we are opening up an organic restaurant with Kristen Dalton in West Hollywood.
Chinhee: The reason we wanted to share our story today is because so many people have been through what we have, and we want to show people that they can overcome it and maybe we can inspire others by telling our tragedy.
Are you able to feel what is happening to one another when you are apart for awhile?
Chinhee: Well this is a good one. It was back when Sunhee was away to college; we were apart. I actually was going through a sexual identity crisis. I was actually starting to see a woman and I didn’t tell Sunhee. My sister called me up out of the blue and asked what was going on. I asked what she meant, and she asked why I didn’t have a boyfriend. I told her, ’because I don’t want one!’ She said, ‘because you have a girlfriend!’ (Shocked, 
Chinhee takes a deep gasp as she tells the story) ‘I was like, oh my god! How did you know that?’ Yes, she knew, so I basically had to ‘come out’ to her! (Chinhee begins to tease Sunhee as she giggles) What’s even funnier is that she came out shortly after me! (The girls begin to laugh as they remember the day that they became honest with each other, as well as themselves about their personal preferences)
the air. It was a great learning experience. We later had our own show on CBS. Our fans miss us. They miss our laugh, our jokes, and ask us to come back. We decided to quit our radio programs for the opportunity to pursue television/video work.
Chinhee: We get emails all the time asking when we will return to the radio. Sorry, We aren’t planning to return to radio.
Sunhee: We are now in the process of creating our very own television show. We can’t say what it is right now because it is still in the works. Very reputable producers found us and felt a connection with us and wanted to do a show that was something different. We are shooting our episodes and will be finishing that up soon. We are also excited that we are opening up an organic restaurant with Kristen Dalton in West Hollywood.
Chinhee: The reason we wanted to share our story today is because so many people have been through what we have, and we want to show people that they can overcome it and maybe we can inspire others by telling our tragedy.
Are you able to feel what is happening to one another when you are apart for awhile?
Chinhee: Well this is a good one. It was back when Sunhee was away to college; we were apart. I actually was going through a sexual identity crisis. I was actually starting to see a woman and I didn’t tell Sunhee. My sister called me up out of the blue and asked what was going on. I asked what she meant, and she asked why I didn’t have a boyfriend. I told her, ’because I don’t want one!’ She said, ‘because you have a girlfriend!’ (Shocked, Chinhee takes a deep gasp as she tells the story) ‘I was like, oh my god! How did you know that?’ Yes, she knew, so I basically had to ‘come out’ to her! (Chinhee begins to tease Sunhee as she giggles) What’s even funnier is that she came out shortly after me! (The girls begin to laugh as they remember the day that they became honest with each other, as well as themselves about their personal preferences)
Do you girls want to keep that private today? It’s up to you, if you want to keep that out of our interview, I will respect your privacy.
Chinhee: No! We don’t care, we’re out. We’re coming out! We are not going to be pretending to have boyfriends. If anything we will pretend to have girlfriends! (The girls laugh lightheartedly at Chinhee’s remark)
I think that is awesome that you‘re being honest! I mean, be who you are!
Sunhee: You could say we were with guys, that part is true. I almost got married to Raquel Welch’s business manager. I was engaged! It was a matter like, we weren’t born gay, but I think because we’re so highly evolved that we are into the person’s spirit connection. We connect with the person’s soul. It’s more like now we are attracted more to women. It’s more like a choice. We don’t hate men, we like men, and we don’t have hang ups. I used to have hang-ups about it and didn’t want to tell anybody. I had once gotten beat up by a guy because I wanted to go to a gay club, he beat me so bad and said he was going to kill me, so I kept quiet for awhile.
Chinhee: We are going to be working in the public eye more and on television. We want to be honest with people. We don’t want any secrets out there. We don’t want to say here in our interview we’re straight and then be seen someplace else that we aren’t. People are going to question our credibility. It’s best we be upfront and honest to start with. The more honest we are to ourselves, we are honest to people and live an honest life!
Sunhee: That’s right we don’t have anything to hide.
Chinhee: Yes, you can publicize the fact that we’re gay, we don’t mind. We don’t have anything to be ashamed of or hide. We are very comfortable with ourselves and our sexuality.
Can you talk about where you were born? How did you become adopted children?
Sunhee: We were born in Korea. We were in a foster home at age 2, our mom was supposedly a hairdresser. Our dad was a boxer. When our dad found out she was pregnant and having 2 more girls, he divorced her and took our 2 older sisters. Our mother could not afford us and she was being looked down upon for having us. She kept us for 2 years and then put us in a foster home.
Have you ever wanted to go back and find your birth Mother?
Chinhee: We did!
Sunhee: We wrote a letter to her our neighbors, a Korean family that owned a salon near the building where we lived, said they were going to Korea. We gave a letter to them to give to our mom if they could find her at the old address. They agreed. She then called us and said, ‘we found your family.’ (It gets a little messy, here) She said that she had found a contact person, and that we had an Aunt in Philadelphia. The friend told us to call this woman in Philadelphia and make sure you address her as your Aunt. My neighbor kept repeating that over and over, ‘Make sure you address her as your Aunt.’ Something was quite strange about it all. Our neighbor acted strange on the phone and said our aunt owned a famous restaurant in Philadelphia. Chinhee and I decided to call her up. As instructed, we called her aunt. The woman on the phone kept asking us strange questions like, ‘Sunhee, have you been a good girl?’ The same way a mother would ask a child. It was really creepy and strange. I told my sister, ‘let’s go and see this woman, but I feel like she is our mother and not our aunt.’
Chinhee: We did go and see her. She was acting really strange. She asked us if we had been good girls, and acting more like a mom than an aunt. We found out she lived in Brooklyn, New York the whole time we lived in Manhattan. She told the neighbor to tell us that she was our aunt. Now that I think back, the neighbor has never acted the same to us after that. She must have known the truth, that this woman was our mother.
Sunhee: We wanted to go and see for ourselves, to visit this woman that owned this restaurant. When we got there and she saw us, her mouth literally dropped wide open like she had seen a ghost. We were so uncomfortable. She stared at us for about 20 minutes without saying anything. She looked just like us! She even walks, talks, and smokes cigarettes like us! We knew she wasn’t our aunt and she kept crying for hours and hours, probably because of the guilt. She then asked if we were here for money and we said no, that we weren’t; we just wanted to see somebody that was blood family. She said that we looked like our dad and then said for us NOT to try to find our mother. She said something like she is not a good person right now. We both knew she was lying to us. She tried to give us money and asked us if we wanted to sleep over; we said no and later left. We didn’t want to stay in her home because we knew she was lying about being our Aunt. Her restaurant is huge and it takes up a whole block. She is very wealthy now and she was paranoid that we were there to get money, and we weren’t.
Chinhee: The experience with our mother was so strange. We don’t really communicate with her anymore at this point because of the dishonesty on her part. We haven’t been back. We know/feel she listened to all of our radio shows and keeps tabs on us.
Sunhee: It’s so strange because we feel her all the time. She has major anxiety and we feel her. She’s so miserable.
Do you feel that before she passes away from this earth, she will come clean?
Chinhee: We hope she does. But, we don’t expect her to. We are used to people not acknowledging…so we don’t expect oil from a rock.
Do you know if your mother had other children, or do you have any siblings?
Chinhee: Our mom and dad had two older girls and our dad supposedly left with them, leaving our mother with me and my sister. She was too poor to care for us.
Sunhee: She later did get remarried, so yes there are half brothers and sisters running around.
Chinhee: What’s also so strange is that we have been getting many reading requests from Korean people and Asian people since that visit.
Would it be safe to say that you both are more at peace, even though it is a sad story, now that you know the truth?
Sunhee: Well, we know the truth, even though it hasn’t been acknowledged.
Chinhee: We could get our blood tested and all that, if we wanted, but we know the truth.
Sunhee: Well what’s the point? We can’t find our father. She won’t give us our father’s information. She said our sisters are greedy. It was totally weird, but it was quite the interesting experience, I have to tell you.
If you had one bit of advice to give our readers about your experiences, what would that be?
Chinhee: The reason we wanted to share our tragedy story is so that others who have been abused can be inspired by our story to make their lives better. They can look at us and say, ‘if they can make it, I can make it’.
Bellesprit magazine wishes to thank Sunhee and Chinhee for allowing us to get up close and personal with them. We appreciate their honesty. Through all of their tragedy they have come out on top, conquering the world one feat at time. Like a beautiful diamond unearthed below and brought forth to the surface they came out and continue to shine, sparkle and amaze all the lives they touch.
You may contact the twins at: www.ChinheeSunheePark.com You can also visit their Facebook Fan Page to stay up to date with their upcoming events and news: www.facebook.com/chinheesunheeparkfanpage
