Who’s the closest Korean-American to President Obama?  So close he sees the President everyday?   Meet Mr. Eugene Kang of Michigan, who is featured on the front page of the Detroit News.  The quick political history of Eugene Kang starts when he ran for City Council in the Ann Arbor area while a college student at the University of Michigan, but that failed bid didn’t deter him.  He soon found himself working on the early stages of the Obama campaign and the rest is history.

His most special moment, he says, came when he first walked into the Oval Office.

“Seeing (Obama) behind that desk, to see the payoff of all the work we had done,” Kang said. “To see him in place where he was getting to start making real all the things we had talked about during the campaign … that was definitely a ‘pinch me’ moment. I couldn’t quite believe I was standing in that room.”

It’s a great article written by Deb Price and she writes about how Eugene Kang is symbolic of this generation of Korean-Americans entering into other areas of work that aren’t so traditional.  This is obviously a result of growing up in the U.S. and having been educated here.  It’s great to see not only Eugene Kang become part of the political fabric, but it’s also great to see other Korean-Americans entering into other areas of work that may not have been so obvious to our parents such as media, entertainement and sports.  To read more about Eugene Kang, go to the Detroit News (we’re also quoted in the article)>

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