{"id":23735,"date":"2012-06-12T22:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T22:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2012-06-12T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T22:06:41","slug":"army-to-appoint-first-mixed-race-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23735","title":{"rendered":"Army to appoint first mixed-race officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/view.koreaherald.com\/kh\/view.php?ud=20120611000895\" target=\"_blank\">Army to appoint first mixed-race officers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Korea Herald<\/a><br \/>\n2012-06-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yonhap News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Korean Army said Monday that two of its cadets with multicultural backgrounds are soon to become non-commissioned officers, the first such cases since the Army\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Cadet officers Bae Jun-hyeong, 22, and Han Ki-yeop, 21, will undergo a 12-week training course next month before being appointed as NCOs, Army officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The two cadets said that they will work hard to become respected members of the military and set a good example for the other soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Both are from multicultural families: Bae\u2019s mother is of Vietnamese origin and Han\u2019s mother is from Japan. This is the first time for anyone from such households to join the ranks of non-commissioned officers in the South Korean military, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 179 soldiers from multicultural backgrounds serving in the Army, while there are nine in the Navy and five in the Air Force, according to Army officials&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/view.koreaherald.com\/kh\/view.php?ud=20120611000895\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army to appoint first mixed-race officers Korea Herald 2012-06-11 Yonhap News The South Korean Army said Monday that two of its cadets with multicultural backgrounds are soon to become non-commissioned officers, the first such cases since the Army\u2019s foundation. Cadet officers Bae Jun-hyeong, 22, and Han Ki-yeop, 21, will undergo a 12-week training course next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8],"tags":[228,10026,229,11059],"class_list":["post-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-korea","tag-korea-herald","tag-south-korea","tag-yonhap-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}