She plays as a shooting guard for the Romanian women's national basketball team and for Ślęza Wrocław in the Basket Liga Kobiet, in Poland.
Ursu was born to a South Korean engineer father who was working at a shipyard in Romania and to a Romanian mother.
She spent the first years of her life in South Korea before returning to Romania when she started school in Suceava.
In fourth grade, she moved to the capital Bucharest, where her mother opened a Korean restaurant.
[2][3] Despite getting several offers from college basketball teams in the United States,[2] she decided to try her luck in South Korea.