Robert Holley is a popular TV personality, lawyer, and owner of both Kwangju Foreign School and Jeonbuk Foreign School. He is famous for having obtained Korean citizenship and speaking fluent Korean in the Gyeongnam dialect. He previously hosted the program "Riding Home" on Arirang. He also has appeared on hundreds of television shows and in numerous commercials. He now appears regularly on "Hometown Now" on MBC-TV
Among Koreans he is generally highly regarded for being so fully adapted to Korean life and for marrying a Korean woman. He originally came to Korea as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served between 1978 and 1980 mainly in the Gyeongnam and Gyeongbuk regions of Korea. He returned to the United States to attend Brigham Young University, but spent a semester studying at Yonsei University in Seoul. He holds a bachelor's degree from BYU and a J.D. degree from West Virginia University. He is a member of the West Virginia State Bar, the American Bar Association, and the International Bar Association. He was employed by Kim, Chang & Lee, Korea's oldest international law firm, from 1985 to 1989. He worked for Busan University of Foreign Studies for two years before being employed by Kijune Yoo of Pusan International Law Offices, where he worked between 1991 and 1997. Mr. Yoo is now a national assemblyman and a spokesman for the Grand National Party.
Holley founded Kwangju Foreign School in 1999 and Jeonbuk Foreign School in 2001.
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