SEOUL: South Korea-born American doctor John Linton is on a mission no other foreigner has ever undertaken in ethnically homogenous South Korea: trying to shake up the country's highly confrontational politics.
South Korea-born American doctor John Linton is hoping to shake up the country's confrontational politics.
His great-grandfather first came to Korea as a missionary in 1895, he told AFP, and the family never left - his grandmother, and father were also born in the country."Basically I grew up in the village. So I'm a country boy from Jeollado with a different looking face." It's no easy task: two years into his term, President Yoon Suk Yeol is stuck with approval ratings hovering in the low 30s, with both the top leader and the party particularly unpopular with young Koreans.
Linton's grandfather, William Linton, tried to raise international awareness of the country's independence movement against Japan's colonial rule and was later awarded the order of merit.Linton himself acted as an interpreter for foreign press during a civilian uprising for democracy in the city of Gwangju in 1980, which was brutally put down by then military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, with some 200 killed, according to official estimates."I am originally American, but Korean.
It was"very shocking" for North Koreans to see an American - Pyongyang's sworn enemy - speak perfect Korean, he recalled. Linton first dabbled in politics in 2013 when he worked on the transition committee for then-president elect Park Geun-hye. But he says the stakes are higher this time, calling his new job"the most important thing in my whole life".
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