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.He then became the first foreigner to pass South Korea's medical licence exam in 1987.
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.
Ihn Yo-han, a naturalized Korean physician with four generations of close ties to the country, will lead the effort to reform the governing party, ahead of what is expected to be a defining election for President Yoon Suk Yeol early next year.
The ruling People Power Party on Monday announced an unusual pick to lead the reform of the party a descendant of an American missionary and a physician who contributed to the establishment of democracy in South Korea in the 1980s. John Linton, a professor of family medicine at Severance Hospital in Seoul, was chosen as the chief of the party’s reform committee on Monday. The 64-year-old, who became a natura.
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