{"id":4032,"date":"2009-08-01T00:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2018-02-21T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T03:34:11","slug":"weekend-tangent-naturalized-caucasian-korean-becomes-sks-national-tourism-org-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4032","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Tangent: Naturalized Caucasian Korean becomes SK’s National Tourism Org leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0It’s the weekend and the summertime, so how about a little diversion? \u00a0Here we have a case of how a naturalized citizen in South Korea has been given a significant administrative post.<\/p>\n

Good for him, and good for Korea. \u00a0This is a country with only recently established a law against racial discrimination (at last) in 2007<\/a>, and their democracy’s much younger than ours. \u00a0What’s holding Japan back? \u00a0The LDP’s primacy? \u00a0Not for long, I bet, and there are hundreds of thousands of naturalized citizens here to choose from. \u00a0I know at least eight of them. \u00a0Let’s get cracking. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Naturalized Korean Lee Charm named tourism head<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Korea Herald, July 29, 2009, Courtesy of MS<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.koreaherald.co.kr\/NEWKHSITE\/data\/html_dir\/2009\/07\/29\/200907290099.asp<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Media personality Lee Charm was named chief of the Korea National Tourism Organization Wednesday, the first naturalized Korean to take a top government post in Korea, according to Yonhap News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lee, 55, is the first German male ever to become a naturalized Korean citizen, and his appointment is anticipated to pave the way for others like him to assume government positions, a pledge by President Lee Myung-bak during the 2007 election.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“I became a Korean citizen to help the country in some way,”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lee said in an earlier interview with Yonhap after it was known he had been nominated. “I hope this new role will bring me closer to that goal.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lee will hold the post for three years from Thursday, when he will officially be appointed to the post by Culture Minister Yu In-chon.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“The ministry had requested the president to consider Lee for the post, considering his global experiences which will help boost the domestic tourism sector,” the culture ministry said in a press release.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Having come to Korea in 1978 as Bernhard Quandt, the catalyst for Lee’s move was a post with a European cultural foundation, where he helped with academic seminars on international issues.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Over time, Lee has played many different roles in Korean society, including a German teacher, English teacher, consultant, actor and broadcaster.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lee became one of only a few dozen Caucasian citizens of South Korea in 1986. He has since become a prominent figure in Korean media and politics, and worked for President Lee’s campaign during the 2007 elections.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Lee Charm currently hosts a Korean culture and food show on KTV, a government channel, and is member of the state-run Korean food promotion body.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Korea Herald: Media personality Lee Charm was named chief of the Korea National Tourism Organization Wednesday, the first naturalized Korean to take a top government post in Korea, according to Yonhap News.
\nLee, 55, is the first German male ever to become a naturalized Korean citizen, and his appointment is anticipated to pave the way for others like him to assume government positions, a pledge by President Lee Myung-bak during the 2007 election.<\/p>\n

“I became a Korean citizen to help the country in some way,”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-good-news","category-immigration-assimilation","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14898,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/14898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}