Robert Holley

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Robert Bradley Holley (born December 2, 1958), also known as Korean Ha Il , is a naturalized South Korean TV lawyer and character. A native of California and a former US citizen, Holley relinquished his native citizenship in 1997 to take on South Korean citizenship.

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Careers

Holley first came to South Korea in 1978 as a missionary of the LDS Church, remaining there for two years. He returned to the country in 1982 to study at Yonsei University, and after graduating from West Virginia University in 1987 with a law degree, began pursuing a legal career in South Korea. He founded the Kwangju Foreign School in 1996. He started his business as a television star in the early 2000s, becoming famous for his spoken language which shows the great influence of the Gyeongsang dialect spoken in his hometown of Busan.

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Personal life

Holley is a descendant of William Bradford, one of the signatories of the Compact Mayflower. He married a South Korean woman, with whom he had three sons; the oldest born in 1988. He decided to become a naturalist as a South Korean citizen in 1997, which would require him to renounce US citizenship. He described this as a difficult decision, especially since South Korea is not a member of the US Visa Release Program; a US consular official tried to prevent him from releasing citizenship, threatening that he might not be able to get a visa to return to his native country, but Holley decided to do it in the end. A notification confirming that the loss of US citizenship was published in the Federal Register in February 1998. He is a close friend of Lee Joon-gi, who will become famous in the mid-2000s as a film actor.

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References

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External links

• Robert Holley on Twitter
• Robert Holley in Cyworld (in Korean)

Source of the article : Wikipedia