"Documentary making is a good field to get into because there are not enough being made in New Zealand and there is a lot of good material."
Ms Lee holds an MA with first class honours in Communication Studies and worked as a journalist for over 20 years in print and television. She spent 15 years as a TV presenter and producer on TVNZ's Asia Dynamic and Asia Down Under.
In answer to a student's question as to whether journalism was her first career choice she said she wanted to study medicine. "I didn't make it to medical school and I started studying architecture which was my father's choice for me. He owned a construction company.
"Then I decided that communications would be very cool."
While working as a journalist, Ms Lee said she always tried to be neutral about her political affiliations.
She was asked to comment on the current debate over Seven Sharp host Mike Hosking's perceived National Party bias in moderating political debates.
"Media people have their own biases like anyone else but while I was working in the industry I tried to hide mine.
"When I became a National MP, some people said they were surprised because they thought media people are all left wing.
"I'm from Korea and my parents left the country because of the communist regime so it was unlikely that I would have left-wing sympathies."
Ms Lee is a National List MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary for Ethnic Affairs.
She is the first Korean woman to hold office outside of Korea, and New Zealand's first Korean MP.