A Korean brother and sister, who broke the record of "youngest bar exam pass" in California, the U.S., is drawing attention.
The Tulare County District Attorney's Office in California introduced 17-year-old Sophia Park in the prosecution office on Instagram, saying she was the youngest to pass the California bar exam that broke her brother's record.
"Sophia's remarkable work speaks volumes in itself, and as an office family, I couldn't be more proud," said Tim Ward, Tulare County's district attorney.
Sophia Park's brother is a Korean-American prosecutor Peter Park, who became the youngest person to pass the California bar exam at the age of 17 last November and was appointed to the Tulare County District Prosecutor's Office.
According to the Tulare County District Prosecutor's Office, when prosecutor Peter Park passed the bar exam in November last year, he was 17 years and 11 months old, and Sophia passed on November 8 at the age of 17 years and 8 months, surpassing his brother's record.
Prosecutor Park posted a video on his YouTube channel on the 9th, confirming that his younger sister Sophia passed the bar exam.
"I'm very happy and excited," Sophia said in English with a big smile after confirming her acceptance in a YouTube video.
The mother of brother and sister said in Korean, "I thought it would work, but..."It's done, finally," he said, expressing his emotion, and his father laughed at prosecutor Park's request to speak in English, saying, "Hallelujah."
Their remarkable achievement was known through local broadcasts and daily newspapers, and on the 19th, it was introduced in detail in the New York Times, a leading media outlet.
The California bar exam is one of the most difficult qualifications in the U.S., and only 54% of the 8,291 people who took the exam in July passed, the New York Times said.
His brother, prosecutor Peter Park, attended high school at the age of 13 and enrolled at the University of California, Northwestern, to study law. Two years later, he passed the CHSPE, which allows him to graduate early from high school in California, and graduated from law school after completing his high school course.
Sophia also started law school at age 13, similar to the path her brother took, and finished high school, college, and law school courses in about four years, taking online classes at home.
"It was natural for me to start law school at a young age, seeing my brother start law school at an early age," Sophia said in an interview in the NYT. "I knew what I wanted to do, and I had a way to go straight."
Like my brother, my brother finished law school this year and started working at Tulare District Prosecutors' Office, and when he turns 18 next March, he will be appointed as a prosecutor like my brother and work together.
"As a prosecutor, Sofia will strive to realize justice and represent the voices of the victims," he told the prosecutor's office.
"As I got older, I realized how the law could be used to help others," Sophia said in an interview in the NYT. "I want to be a Supreme Court justice one day."
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