I was a tennis player in South Korea, said Minka in an interview for the DVD Maximum Minka. I stopped playing tennis when I came to the United States in 1994. I tried to get a job as a tennis teacher in Washington, D.C., but I didnt have a license to teach tennis, and I couldnt pass the written test. Then one day, I was playing in the Asian Olympic Games in Chicago, and my friend, shes a plastic surgeon, she and I were showering together and she said to me, Why dont you get into the mens magazines! Dont teach tennis. How much money can you make teaching tennis! So I sent three pictures to your studio in England, and one week later, they sent an airplane ticket, and I was in England. That was the beginning of it all for Minka,