Rose is a native of San Francisco Chinatown. She is the youngest of five girls and was raised by her widowed mother. Her dream of becoming Miss Chinatown came true in 1981. Rose has been involved in the community ever since by volunteering for charitable organizations including serving as Board Chair for APA Family Support Services, Co-founding Imagine Talks, a women empowerment program, and serving as President of Jung Family Association. She continues in pageantry by producing Miss Asian Global Pageant which just celebrated its 35th Anniversary this year. She recently retired from her profession as a radiologic technologist at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.