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- January 20, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Poetry: Sag Harbor Online: Korea RPCV George Wallace is Suffolk County's first poet laureate Friday, January 28, 2005 - 9:20 pm [1]
- January 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Diplomacy: Durango Herald: Korea RPCV Joseph R. Donovan Jr., who is director for the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State Friday, January 28, 2005 - 9:17 pm [1]
- January 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: COS - Kyrgyzstan: Trade Promotion: Joongang Ilbo: Kyrgyzstan RPCV Jodi Kiely is an investment promotion officer at the Busan and Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority in Korea Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 4:11 am [2]
- March 1, 2003: Headlines: COS - South Korea: Pomona Magazine: From September 1978 to August 1980, Margaret Pollack served as a community health worker, working with tuberculosis patients in a 178,000 populace rural, mountainous community smack dab in the middle of South Korea. Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:39 am [1]
- March 14, 2003: Headlines: COS - Korea: PC Appointments: Cornell Daily Sun: Dr. Paul Jhin, the director of planning, policy, and analysis for the Peace Corps, to speak at Korean American Students Conference Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 1:58 pm [1]
- December 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Obituaries: Washington Post: William Patrick Reich who served as an education officer for the Peace Corps in Korea, died in Virginia Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 8:20 pm [1]
- December 5, 2004: Headlines: COS - Peru: COS - Korea: Adventure: Exploration: Chicago Tribune: Don Montague founded the South American Explorers (SAE) in 1977, after a Peace Corps stint in Korea and six years spent roaming South America as part of a freelance film crew Friday, August 05, 2005 - 6:58 am [2]
- December 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Organizations: CSA: Korea RPCV Margaret Wheatley is Internationally Acclaimed Author and Leading Expert on the Future of Organisations Monday, December 12, 2005 - 5:19 pm [2]
- January 25, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Asia Studies: Honolulu Advertiser: Edward J. Shultz was among the first group of volunteers sent to South Korea in 1966. He taught English at a boys high school in Pusan and today is professor of history and director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawai'i. Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 4:08 pm [1]
- January 22, 1998: Headlines: COS - Korea: Translation: Harvard University: RPCV David McCann Returns to FAS: Poet, Translator is First Korea Foundation Professor Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 4:07 pm [1]
- August 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: University Education: Joongang Daily: Edward Reed acknowledged that there were much more voices here criticizing U.S. policies than when he was first here 30 years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer, working with farmers in Pyeongtaek and teaching English at Konkuk University Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 4:07 pm [1]
- October 25, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: International Studies: Indiana Statesman: Years ago, while stationed in Korea for the Peace Corps, Randy Green started a career in cultural training and administrating, and teaching English as a second language Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 2:17 pm [1]
- October 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Asiamedia: In an interview with the New York Times on the eve of his inauguration as president on Feb. 25, 1998, Kim said, ``I learned English from an American Peace Corps volunteer and by tutoring myself, puzzling over the English language daily The Korea Times with a dictionary…’’ Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 2:16 pm [1]
- October 18, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Awards: Scholarship: Literature: Daily News Tribune: David McCann was a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea in the late 1960s, and Korea's influence on him has continued throughout his life, weaving into his passions of history and poetry and coming to fruition with a prestigious award the country presents annually Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 5:18 pm [1]
- October 11, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Museums: Honolulu Advertiser: RPCV Kyle Kopitke's National Korean War Museum hoping to relocate Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 12:04 pm [1]
- October 8, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Awards: Scholarship: Literature: Watetown Tab: David McCann was a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea in the late 1960s, and Korea's influence on him has continued throughout his life Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 12:23 am [1]
- September 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Humor: JoongAng Daily News: Ken Kaliher has lived in Korea for 33 years, since he first came with the Peace Corps Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 2:59 pm [1]
- September 11, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Awards: Scholarship: Harvard University: RPCV David McCann is first non-Korean to receive Manhae Prize for Scholarship Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:27 pm [1]
- April 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Korea Herald: Dr. Larry Lustig, ex-soldier of USFK and ex-Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, says President Roh's leadership to be tested in new Assembly Friday, August 27, 2004 - 6:19 pm [1]
- August 14, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: COS - Cameroon: Diplomacy: The Korea Herlad: Korea was a whole different world in the early 1980s when Ambassador and Cameroon RPCV Christopher Hill was last posted here Friday, August 13, 2004 - 6:39 pm [1]
- August 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Public Health: The Herald-Sun: Korea RPCV Thomas Bacon has had a long career of public service and involvement in public health issues Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 11:24 am [1]
- July 18, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Museums: Honolulu Advertiser: RPCV Kyle Kopitke is director and president of the National Korean War Museum in Wahiawa Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:36 am [6]
- July 7, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: East Asian Studies: Indiana University: Korea RPCV Michael E. Robinson offers perspectives on North Korea and its standing in the world community Thursday, July 08, 2004 - 8:56 pm [1]
- July 6, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Seminary: Religion: Trinity Lutheran Seminary: Andrew "Andy" Michael Edwards were Peace Corps volunteers in the mid-1970's and were stationed in a small village near Taegu, South Korea Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 9:46 am [3]
- May 19, 2004: Headlines: COS - Korea: Awards: Secondary Education: Clear Lake Citizen: Dr. Kevin Fleming was named Secondary Teacher of the Year, his first teaching assignment was in a fishing village in South Korea, where the Peace Corps sent him Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 5:13 pm [1]
- April 4, 2004 - Rocky Mountain College: Korea RPCV Thomas J. Bryne is a senior member of Moody's Sovereign Risk Team Monday, April 05, 2004 - 5:10 pm [1]
- March 10, 2004 - JoongAng Daily: Cameroon RPCV Christopher R. Hill, 52, the current U.S. ambassador to Poland, is in line to succeed Thomas Hubbard as the ambassador to South Korea Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 6:21 pm [1]
- March 8, 2004 - Phoenixville News: Korea RPSV Marjorie Bloem enjoys being her own boss Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 2:26 am [1]
- February 21, 2004 - Honolulu Advertiser: RPCV Kyle Kopitke helps open Korean War museum in Hawai'i Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 5:40 pm [4]
- February 8, 2004 - Honolulu Advertiser: Korea RPCV Lindsey Pollock dies in Hawaii Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 9:35 pm [1]
- January 18, 2004 - Monterey Herald: Korea RPCV Paul Karrer spent many years abroad as a Peace Corps volunteer Monday, June 13, 2005 - 12:22 am [2]
- January 9, 2004 - Open Democracy: When Edward Cherlin arrived in Korea in 1967 to start his Peace Corps service, ox carts were common in the streets of Seoul. Thirty-seven years later Seoul has the highest broadband internet penetration in the world, and people all over Asia and the Pacific learn Korean in order to attend Korean universities Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 10:25 am [1]
- October 5, 2002 - Sarai Net: Korea RPCV Edward Cherlin talks about the Simputer, the first computer designed for poor and even illiterate people Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 10:20 am [1]
- January 7, 2004 - Village Voice: Korea RPCV Gregg Whiteside's Firing at Times Radio Station Outrages Listeners Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 1:21 am [4]
- Does anybody remember Mrs. Park ?? Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 12:58 pm [3]
- August 14, 2003 - The Korea Herald: RPCV Gary Rector became a Korean citizen Monday, May 29, 2006 - 5:26 am [2]
- March 13, 2003 - Department of State: Korea RPCV Gregory W. Engle is new Ambassador to Togo Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 11:07 pm [1]
- June 7, 2003 - POOL: Nick was a Peace Corps volunteer who taught English in a small middle school in southwest Korea Saturday, June 07, 2003 - 2:11 pm [1]
- May 13, 2003 - Department of State: Korea RPCV Gregory W. Engle nominated ambassador to Togo Thursday, June 05, 2003 - 11:02 am [1]
- Peace Corps Korea article; April 2002 in the Korea Herald Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 8:53 am [1]
- As a Peace Corps volunteer from 1971 to 1973, Allan Goldman '76PH was a health-care worker in the poorest province of South Korea. Monday, July 09, 2001 - 1:17 pm [1]
- Donald Hess was director of the U.S. Peace Corps and Peace Corps/Korea in the early 1970s Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - 9:45 am [1]
- Friends of Korea Letter Monday, July 04, 2005 - 9:14 pm [2]
- A Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea - November 1972 to Sepember 1974 Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - 9:34 am [1]
- K-24 Korea Peace Corps Volunteer Website Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 7:40 pm [2]
- William Amos as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea, 1979 Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - 9:32 am [1]
- Photographs from Peace Corps and Korea Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - 9:30 am [1]
- April 22, 2002 - Korea Herald: The Legacy of the Peace Corps in Korea Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 10:46 am [1]
- February 10, 2003 - Harvard University: Korea RPCV David McCann is first Korea Foundation Professor Monday, February 10, 2003 - 7:16 pm [1]
- February 10, 2003 - Personal Web Site: K-25 Training Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 1:29 pm [2]
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- February 1, 2002 - JoongAngIlbo: Careful, Moody's credit raters sending guys who know Korea Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 7:49 pm [1]
- April 15, 2002 - JoongAngIlbo: Volunteers who stayed in Korea Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 7:49 pm [1]
- October 13, 2002 - Korea Herald: David Alvord came on the U.S. Peace Corps' pioneer mission in Korea Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 1:17 pm [1]
- October 9, 2002 - Joongang Ilbo: RPCV Stuart Solomon is expert on Korean white porcelain Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 1:17 pm [1]
- October 11, 2002 - JoongAng Ilbo: Korea RPCV Gary Rector writes about slogans in Korea Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 1:16 pm [1]
- June 22, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Some thoughts on the possible reunification of korea by a China RPCV Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:22 pm [1]
- September 1, 2002 - American Water Works: Former NPCA Board Chair and Korea RPCV Steve Werner brings marketing savvy to Water For People Friday, September 28, 2007 - 4:40 pm [2]
- January 17, 2003 - Chosun Ilbo: Team leader Tom Byrne has been in charge of Korea analysis since the financial crisis, and served for three years in Korea as a Peace Corps member. Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:14 pm [1]
- June 22, 2003 - Indiana University: Michael E. Robinson's experience in Korea goes back to the late 1960s, when he was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Korea Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:08 pm [1]
- June 22, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Suzanne Crowder Han has lived in Korea since 1977 when she first came to the country as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:06 pm [1]
- September 28, 1995 - Yale Daily News: RPCV Bruce Cummings says media is ignoring Korea Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 7:45 pm [2]
- June 22, 2003 - Personal Web Site: When I went to South Korea with the Peace Corps in 1975, my roommate during the initial training program sat up in bed one night and started hitting our rotating fan with his pillow, shouting out the Korean words for “post office,” “school,” “tearoom,” and “bathhouse.” Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:02 pm [1]
- June 22, 2003 - Pomona Magazine: Margaret Pollack served as a community health worker, working with tuberculosis patients in a 178,000 populace rural, mountainous community smack dab in the middle of South Korea Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 11:48 am [1]
- June 22, 2003 - American Museum of Natural History: Rather than bouncing into graduate school, Laurel Kendall joined the Peace Corps and the Peace Corps sent her to Korea and that became her specialty Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 11:45 am [1]
- May 10, 2003 - Utica Observer -Dispatch: Jorge L. Hernandez reminisced about his two years as a corps volunteer teaching English as a foreign language in the mid-1970s Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 11:42 am [1]
- June 22, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Sounds from the Peace Corps / Korea 1972-1974 Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 1:39 pm [2]
- June 22, 2003 - Yahoo Groups: Friends of Korea listserv Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 12:07 pm [2]
- 2006.11.19: November 19, 2006: Headlines: COS - Korea: Writing - Korea: Jackson Hole Star-Tribune: Bruce Cumings is an author who was sent to Korea by the Peace Corps, and has written three books about that country Friday, January 12, 2007 - 10:02 am [1]
- 2006.10.14: October 14, 2006: Headlines: COS - Morocco: Journalism: COS - Korea: Newsday: James Rupert writes: The crisis over North Korea's declared nuclear bomb test is the result of a long failure by U.S. and North Korean elites to understand each other Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 4:18 am [5]
- 2006.08.02: August 2, 2006: Headlines: COS - Korea: The Third Goal: Village Soup: Young Hee Oh who came to America from Korea in 1970 with her husband, Peace Corps Volunteer Richard MacIntyre will lead a workshop – Getting Acquainted with Korean Language and Culture Monday, September 04, 2006 - 9:11 am [1]
- 2006.08.15: August 15, 2006: Headlines: COS - Korea: Purchasing: Advertising: The Korean Times: Tom Coyner says: Peace Corps Volunteers introduced sanitary napkins to Korea in the 1960s Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 6:14 am [1]
- 2006.05.01: May 1, 2006: Headlines: COS - Korea: Law: Jurisprudence: Election2006 - Meneken: Marin Independent Journal: Korea RPCV Cliff Meneken says that the Marin bench is in need of reform Saturday, May 06, 2006 - 1:21 am [1]
- January 12, 2006: Headlines: COS - Korea: Medicine: Wausau Daily Herald: It was after Dr. Karl J. Ulrich was assigned to work with tuberculosis control programs in South Korea that he found his interest in medicine Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 6:58 am [1]
- August 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Priests: Catholicism: Today's Catholic Teacher: Korea RPCV Joe Veneroso was ordained as a missioner priest for Maryknoll Monday, October 03, 2005 - 9:46 pm [1]
- August 30, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Internet: Third Goal: Korea Times: RPCV Edward J. Shultz creates Web Site to teach About Korean-American Experience Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 1:29 pm [1]
- August 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Acting: Theatre: Musicals: Music: Island Packet: Korea RPCV Cris Groenendaal has played the role of the Phantom in the hit musical "The Phantom of the Opera" more than 860 times on Broadway and with international companies Friday, January 04, 2008 - 7:56 am [2]
- August 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Museums: Lincoln Journal Star: Korea RPCV Kyle Kopitke builds National Korean War museum in Nebraska Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 4:30 pm [1]
- July 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Medicine: Exeter News-Letter: Korea RPCV Dr. Charles G. Mixter III, MD to retire Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 4:51 pm [2]
- April 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Museums: Omaha World-Herald: RPCV Kyle Kopitke relocates National Korean War Museum from Hawaii to Nebraska Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 3:20 pm [1]
- May 30, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Journalism: Publishing: South China Morning Post: Korea RPCV Jack Maisano, former publisher of regional magazines and newspapers, has returned to Hong Kong five years after he left for New York Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 3:29 pm [1]
- May 20, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Photography - Korea: Photography: Joongang Ilbo: RPCV Tom Coyner has photographed Korea since 1975 Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 3:29 pm [1]
- April 17, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Adoption: Providence Journal Bulletin: In alternate chapters, we follow the life of Kyung-Sook from her musical ambitions and work in a noodles and dumpling shop far from her Enduring Pine Village to her fateful affair with Dave, an American guitarist with the Peace Corps. Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 9:57 pm [1]
- April 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Country Director - Korea: Law: Investment: The Korea Times: RPCV Timothy J. O’Brien Suggests Korea Boost Investment Publicity Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 10:03 pm [1]
- April 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Korea: Business: Consulting: Joongang Ilbo: Tom Coyner first came to Korea decades ago as a Peace Corps volunteer, married a Korean woman, heads multiple community organizations and publishes a newsletter called the Korea Economic Reader. Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 10:01 pm [1]
- March 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Cameroon: Diplomacy: COS - Korea: US Embassy in Japon: RPCV Christopher Hill emphasized that "the President's policy is to achieve denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through peaceful means, specifically, through the multilateral diplomacy of the Six-Party Talks" Monday, March 13, 2006 - 11:36 am [2]