Về một người Mỹ gốc Hàn

Cách đây vài ngày, ông Jim Yong Kim một người Mỹ gốc Hàn được tổng thống Obama đề cử làm chủ tịch mới của World Bank. Theo Business Insider, ông này thực sự là một gã rất "cool", với 10 lý do sau:

1. He raps and dances with college students. 

2. He was the president of his high school class.

3. He was quarterback of his high school football team.

4. He was point guard of his high school basketball team.

5. He invited Conan O'Brien to speak at Dartmouth College's 2011 Commencement.

6. He is a five handicap in golf. President Obama remarked, "I'm a little resentful about that." Dartmouth professor Sydney Finkelstein adds that Kim does "speed golf" on the course at 5 AM before others get there.

7. He was ranked #9 on Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business" for his efforts to apply U.S. academic research to health-care programs in the developing world.

8. He immigrated to the United States from Seoul, South Korea, at the age of five.

9. He was awarded a "Genius Grant"—given to 20-40 U.S. citizens annually who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work"—by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

10. According to Conan O'Brien, Kim's friends call him "Jim Kim, J to the K, Special K, JK Rowling, the Just Kidding Kimster, and most puzzling, 'Stinky Pete.'"

Và dĩ nhiên không nên quên rằng ông hiện đang là hiệu trưởng của Darthmouth.

Nguồn
Note: JY Kim transfer từ University of Iowa sau năm thứ nhất đến Brown University, sau đó học MD & PhD ở Harvard.