Peter Chung

Country of origin: South Korea

Peter Kunshik Chung (born April 19, 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, as 정건식 (Chung Geun-sik, or alternative spelling Jeong Geun-Sik) is a Korean American animator. He is best known for his unique style of animation, as the creator and director of Æon Flux, which ran as shorts on MTV's Liquid Television before launching as its own half-hour television series.

To read more about Peter Chung, visit his page on Wikipedia.

Luke Song

Country of origin: South Korea

Luke Song is an American contemporary high fashion milliner designer.

Luke Song(hangul=송 욱 born in December 1972 in Seoul, South Korea) is a 5th generation Seoulite who grew up in the fashionable district of Myongdong. He moved to the Detroit suburbs in 1982 and graduated from Birmingham Seaholm High School. He first studied Bio-Chemistry, but eventually ended up studying fine arts at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Luke's artistic career lead him eventually to Paris, France, but he found the art of hat making during his journey back home to Michigan. He began his career as a milliner in 1997. He incorporated Moza Inc. in 1998 and his label Mr. Song Millinery is currently sold in over 500 boutiques around the world. Luke has been also designing for many other fashion companies and designs products for the movies, TV, books, magazines, and other venues. He collaborates with many artists around the world for gallery exhibitions and special exhibitions. He is currently working on 6 joint projects in Japan, France, South Korea and USA. He is also known as "Mr. Song" by most of his clients.

To read more about Luke Song, visit his page on Wikipedia, or to find out more about the hat he designed that Aretha Franklin wore to President Obama’s Inauguration, visit mrsongmillinery.com.

Sukhee Kang

Country of origin: South Korea

Sukhee Kang (Korean: 강석희; born September 15, 1952) is the current mayor of Irvine, California. Kang is a Korean American Democrat. On July 6, 2011, he announced his candidacy for the United States Congress. If elected, he will be the only Korean-American in Congress.

Mayor Sukhee Kang was first elected to the Irvine City Council in 2004 and was successfully re-elected in 2006. With his 2008 election, he became the first Korean-American to serve as Mayor of a major U.S. city. He was re-elected as Mayor with more than 64% of the vote in November 2010. Born and raised in South Korea, Mayor Kang and his wife Joanne immigrated to the United States in 1977 after his graduation from Korea University in Seoul.

To read more about Sukhee Kang, visit his wikipedia page, or see his bio here.

p.s. This should have been posted yesterday; I blame lack of sleep dealing with a failed AC unit in the machine room for the mixup! :-P

Jin Kyu Robertson

Country of origin: South Korea

Jin Kyu Robertson has come a long way since she immigrated to the United States as a housemaid when she was 22. Since then, she rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army and completed a doctorate at Harvard University.

Jin Robertson says she had inauspicious beginnings, but her story shows the power of perseverance. She was the child of tavern owner, and neither of her parents ever attended school. By the time Jin was in sixth grade, she excelled at her studies, and her parents agreed to let her complete middle and high school.

There was no money for college, so she worked in a factory, as a waitress and housemaid. One day, she saw a newspaper ad for a housemaid in America. She applied for the job, over her family's objections.

"I was 22 years old, and I didn't speak much English at all," she said. "And I had only $100 to my name, so that was my beginning, and a one-way ticket. So it was quite a challenge, I suppose."

To read the rest of Jin Kyu Robertson's amazing story, read the rest of the article here, or read her autobiography: Major Dream: From Immigrant Housemaid to Harvard Ph.D.

Juju Chang

Country of origin: South Korea

Hyunju "Juju" Chang (born September 17, 1965) is a Korean-American Emmy Award-winning television journalist for ABC News, and currently serves as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for Nightline. Previously she was the news anchor for ABC News' morning news program Good Morning America from 2009–2011.

Juju Chang was born in Seoul, South Korea, to Okyong and Palki Chang and was raised in Sunnyvale, California following her family’s emigration to the U.S. in 1969. At a young age, Chang was a nationally ranked swimmer.

She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and communications. At Stanford she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.

To read more about Juju Chang, see her Wikipedia page.