KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA

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10TH ANNIVERSARY GAL A PROGRAM
COCKTAIL RECEPTION & SILENT AUCTION
WELCOME
Juju Chang | ABC News
VIDEO
PRESIDENT'S GREETING
Tony W. Lee 
CELEBRATORY ADDRESS
Ban Ki-moon | United Nations Secretary-General
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REMARKS
Kyung B. Yoon
GRANTEE PARTNER REMARKS
GALA CO-CHAIRS
Sang Cho
Gina Chon
Kevin Kim
DINNER
LIVE AUCTION
C. Hugh Hildesley | Sotheby’s
CORPORATE HONOREE AWARD
Yongmaan Park  | Chairman and CEO, Doosan Group
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Martha Choe | Chief Administrative Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CLOSING
WELCOME
WELCOME FROM THE GALA CO-CHAIRS
Thank you for attending the Korean American Community Foundation’s 10th Anniversary Gala!
We are delighted to have you with us tonight as we celebrate 10 years of KACF’s groundbreaking
work in the community.
KACF was founded with a two-part mission: to promote a culture of giving among Korean
Americans, and to ensure that more resources reach the underserved in the Korean American
community and beyond. Our efforts to foster a philanthropic mindset within the community have
been successful; we have granted nearly $2.7 million to nonprofit organizations thanks to your
continued support of our fundraising efforts, including the Gala, the Golf Classic, ING Marathon
Team, Steering Committee Summer Benefit, and the Dollar-a-Day campaign.
This year, we awarded funds to 18 grantee partners, all of whom are in attendance tonight.
We salute these nonprofit organizations for their tireless efforts to empower lives and transform
communities.
None of KACF’s work would be possible without the collective efforts of the Board of Direc-
tors and its President Tony W. Lee, Executive Director Kyung Yoon, the dedicated KACF staff, our
Advisory Councils, and Steering Committee. We also would like to extend our deepest gratitude
to our Dinner Chair, Charles Song, and the members of the 10th Anniversary Committee, for serv-
ing as wonderful ambassadors of KACF and playing a crucial role in our Gala’s success.
Tonight, we celebrate the accomplishments of Yongmaan Park, Chairman and Chief Execu-
tive Officer of Doosan Group, and Martha Choe, Chief Administrative Officer of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, for their extraordinary contributions to the Korean American story. We are
honored to have United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon here to give remarks, and ABC’s
Juju Chang, a founding KACF board member, serving as our distinguished emcee once again.
We hope you have a wonderful evening!
2012 Gala Co-Chairs
Sang Cho Gina Chon Kevin D Kim
WELCOME
FROM THE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
On behalf of Korean American Community Foundation, welcome to our 10th Anniversary Gala! 
We are gathered this evening to celebrate a decade of KACF’s work and impact in our com-
munity. First and foremost, we applaud our grantee partners and other community leaders who are
with us tonight, for their steadfast commitment to improving lives and transforming communi-
ties. They are in the frontlines helping seniors overcome social and linguistic isolation within the
family and community; promoting leadership development and healthy decision-making among
young people; and providing critical services to women and families affected by violence.  In this
work, KACF is proud to stand with our grantee partners.
Tonight, we are thrilled to honor Chairman Yongmaan Park of the Doosan Group, an ex-
traordinary businessman and passionate philanthropist, for his long-standing commitment to
promoting education and the arts as well as his leadership in spearheading a strong culture of
corporate social responsibility at Doosan. We are also delighted to have the opportunity to hear
from our Keynote Speaker, Martha Choe, the Chief Administrative Officer of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation. A dynamic leader with a commitment to public service, she has been a pioneer,
visionary and role model for many Korean Americans. Last, but certainly not least, we want to
thank His Excellency, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, for making time in his busy schedule
to join us for our 10th Anniversary Gala.
This evening would not have been possible without the dedication and tireless efforts
of many people, but in particular, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the Gala
Co-Chairs—Sang Cho, Gina Chon and Kevin Kim—whose steadfast leadership has been instru-
mental in ensuring the success of this year’s milestone event. We would also like to thank Charles
Song, our Gala Dinner Chair, for his outstanding commitment and support.
Please enjoy the evening!
Sincerely,
Tony W. Lee Kyung B. Yoon
President Executive Director
YONGMAAN (YM) PARK
CORPORATE HONOREE
CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
DOOSAN GROUP
Yongmaan (YM) Park is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Doosan Group, and is also Chairman
of key Doosan businesses including Doosan Infracore and Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction.
Doosan is a global conglomerate with $24 billion revenue generated by key businesses in building and
operating infrastructure in the public and private sectors. Doosan boasts a storied history of 116 years
making it ‘the oldest company in Korea’, and simultaneously ‘the fastest moving company’.
YM Park has been front-and-center of the renowned transformation of the Doosan Group. He has
led over 42 deals including acquisitions and divestitures of businesses in the strategic drive to over-
haul its business portfolio, turning from a consumer goods company to an ISB (Infrastructure Support
Business) focused enterprise. Included in this portfolio change was the acquisition of Bobcat, the world
leader in compact construction equipment.
He has also spearheaded Doosan’s broader globalization efforts, transforming a Korean company
into a multi-national corporation with operations in more than 30 countries, with 50% of its 43,000
employees working overseas. YM’s leadership has led Doosan to achieve a seven-fold revenue growth
in just over a decade. Doosan’s success, and YM’s leadership of it, have received tremendous publicity
abroad and are frequently benchmarked as best practice.
YM Park has also been acknowledged for his devoted service to enhance the commercial ties
between Korea and other countries, being awarded the Order of Civil Merit of Spain in 2003 and the
Order of Leopold II of Belgium in 2009. YM is Chairman of the Korea-Spain Economic Cooperation
Committee, Vice Chairman of The Seoul Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2009, and a mem-
ber of Board of Directors for the Special Olympics Korea since 2011.
YM Park is a committed and passionate advocate of philanthropy. On corporate responsibility,
Chairman Park says, “Doosan must take pride in its over 100 years of history. We must serve as a
corporate role model and fulfill the promises and hopes for a better future.” In addition to emphasizing
the need for the Doosan Group to take the lead in practicing social responsibility, Chairman Park has
personally engaged in numerous philanthropic activities.
Doosan seeks to contribute to the wellbeing of our society not only by serving the underprivileged
communities but through strengthening of social competency by promoting individual development.
To that end, Yonkang Foundation was established in 1978. Yonkang Foundation supports a wide range
of educational activities such as scholarships and research grants, training abroad programs for educa-
tors, and book donations. Furthermore, the Yonkang Art Award was launched in 2010 to discover and
support gifted and talented artists.
Doosan’s global affiliates are also implementing their own social responsibility initiatives. Doosan
Heavy Industries & Construction, the world’s leading seawater desalination company, donated water
purification facility in Cambodia in 2006 as well as a seawater desalination facility to a remote island
in Vietnam in 2010. Doosan Infracore—the Group’s producer of construction equipment and machine
tools—organized numerous disaster relief programs, both domestically and internationally, including
the relief work after the Sichuan earthquake in 2008.
YM Park has been described as an open and caring leader who places people at the core of his
values, and is currently devoted to building a strong assembled corporate culture within Doosan
designed to enable unparalleled success for another 100 years.
Being an avid photographer and devoted athlete, YM Park spends his leisure time in documentary
photography and trekking. YM has traversed the Korean peninsula on foot, travelling 550 km along a
north-south path and 280 km along a west-east path. YM is also a public figure known for his genuine
communication through Twitter, with more than 140,000 followers.
YM received his Bachelor’s degree in Business from Seoul National University in 1978 and his
MBA from Boston University in 1982. He is fluent in English and Japanese.
MARTHA CHOE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
As Chief Administrative Officer, Martha Choe oversees the Foundation’s Human Resources,
Security, and Global Workplace Resource operations teams, including responsibility for opera-
tions budgets of China, India, UK, Africa and Washington, DC offices. Martha has responsibility
for the Foundation’s campus and Visitor Center in the heart of Seattle. She is a member of the
Foundation’s management team. Choe joined the Foundation in 2004 as the Director of the Global
Libraries initiative in the Foundation’s Global Development Program.
Before joining the Foundation, Choe served as the director of the Washington State De-
partment of Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED), providing leadership for
sustainable job growth throughout Washington State and promoting two-way trade in Asia and
Europe. As CTED Director, she led trade missions to Asia, Mexico and Europe. Martha was ap-
pointed by Governor Locke to develop and lead a winning proposal for the assembly of Boeing’s
new 787 Dreamliner. Martha led a multi-jurisdictional team to win over 47 states competing for
this opportunity. Prior to that, Martha was elected to two four-year terms on the Seattle City Coun-
cil and chaired the transportation and economic development and finance committees. During
her terms, she led efforts to revitalize downtown Seattle, including the establishment of the Seattle
Jobs Initiative.
Prior to public service, Choe was a vice president at the Bank of California Credit Administra-
tion, Commercial and Private Banking. She also taught high school in Eugene, Ore. Choe has a
bachelor’s degree in speech and ethnic studies from the University of Washington and received
her master’s in business administration from Seattle University. She has long been active in civic
and Asian American organizations and serves on several boards including as former chair of the
White House Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islanders. She currently serves on the
boards of The Seattle Foundation, CRAFT3, Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Seattle
Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
BAN KI-MOON
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL
Ban Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. His priorities have been to mobi-
lize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval
to pandemics and increasing pressures involving food, energy and water. He has sought to be a bridge-
builder, to give voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the Orga-
nization itself.
“I grew up in war,” the Secretary-General has said, “and saw the United Nations help my country to
recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service.
As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this Organization deliver tangible, meaningful results
that advance peace, development and human rights.”
Mr. Ban took office on 1 January 2007. On 21 June 2011, he was unanimously re-elected by the
General Assembly and will continue to serve until 31 December 2016. Highlights of his tenure include:
Promoting sustainable development
One of the Secretary-General’s first major initiatives was the 2007 Climate Change Summit, followed
by extensive diplomatic efforts that have helped put the issue at the forefront of the global agenda. Sub-
sequent efforts have focused on the Millennium Development Goals, women’s and children’s health,
sustainable energy, education, and the post-2015 development agenda.
Empowering women
The Secretary-General pressed successfully for the creation of UN Women, a major new agency that
consolidates the UN’s work for gender equality. Within the UN itself, he has increased the number of
women in senior management positions to reach the highest level in history.
Supporting countries facing crisis or instability
The Secretary-General has sought to strengthen UN peace efforts, promote accountability for viola-
tions of human rights, advocate for implemention of the “responsibility to protect,” improve humanitar-
ian response in the aftermath of mega-disasters and mobilize UN support for democratic transitions.
Generating new momentum on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation
The Secretary-General has sought to rejuvenate the disarmament agenda through a five-point plan, ef-
forts to break the deadlock at the Conference on Disarmament, and renewed attention to nuclear safety
and security.
Strengthening the UN
The Secretary-General has introduced new measures aimed at making the United Nations more trans-
parent, effective and efficient.
Personal
The Secretary-General was born in the Republic of Korea on 13 June 1944. He received a bachelor’s
degree in international relations from Seoul National University, and a master’s degree in public ad-
ministration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. At the time of his election
as Secretary-General, Mr. Ban was his country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His ties to the
United Nations date back to 1975, when he worked for the Foreign Ministry’s United Nations Division.
Mr. Ban has also been actively involved in issues relating to inter-Korean relations.
He and his wife, Madam Yoo (Ban) Soon-taek, have one son, two daughters and three grandchildren.
JUJU CHANG
EMCEE
Juju Chang is an Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC News’ Nightline. She also reports
regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20.  Chang also hosts “Moms Get Real,” a digital
show for ABC News NOW aimed at cracking the facade of perfect mommy-hood.
Chang has covered breaking news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti and the deadly mine
disaster in West Virginia.  Chang’s many hour-long reports include the story of a murdered eighth
grader in Oxnard, California named Larry King, which examined the issues of bullying, child
abuse and juvenile justice. She also anchored hours for Primetime Nightline on “Twin-tuition”; on
an “Extra-ordinary family” from Tennessee who have 18 biological kids; and on “Mommywood,”
which featured interviews with celebrity moms.
She received an Emmy Award for team coverage of the California wildfires. She won one of
her two Gracies for a 20/20 story on gender equality in the sciences. Her hour-long 20/20 reports
include an in-depth look at the impact on foreign adoptions gone wrong; the struggles of people
with Albinism globally, including the plight of Tanzanian albinos; and an intimate portrait of one
family dealing with gender transition.
Chang’s award-winning investigative reports include the case of Hannah Overton, a young
Texas mother of five sentenced to life in prison for the salt-poisoning death of her foster son,
Andrew Burd.
A former news anchor for Good Morning America, Chang had in 2000 anchored the early
morning newscasts World News Now and World News This Morning.
She began her career at ABC News as a desk assistant and eventually became a producer
at World News Tonight. She rose to become a correspondent covering such stories as the U.S.
Embassy bombings in Kenya, Hurricane Georges, and the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear
accident. She was based in Washington, DC from 1996-1997, where she covered the White House,
Capitol Hill and the 1996 presidential election for NewsOne, ABC’s affiliate news service.
Prior to her assignment in Washington, Chang was a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco,
from 1995-96.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in California, Chang graduated with honors from Stan-
ford University with a BA in political science and communication. At Stanford, she was awarded
the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.
Chang is married to Neal Shapiro and has three sons. She is a member of the Council on For-
eign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.
C. HUGH HILDESLEY
AUCTIONEER
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
SOTHEBY’S
Mr. Hildesley joined Sotheby’s in 1961 and played an integral role in Sotheby’s formative years in
New York. From 1964 – 70 he was the first Head of the Old Master Paintings Department in New
York, going on to form Sotheby’s Appraisal Company in 1970. Educated at Sherborne School,
Dorset, and Brasenose College, Oxford. Mr. Hildesley studied Dutch and Flemish Old Master
paintings at the Rijksbureau Voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in the Hague. From 1973 – 1976,
Mr. Hildesley was responsible for the Jack R. Dick Sale of Sporting Paintings in London, a record-
breaking sale that sparked a renewal of interest in this area of collecting. As Senior Auctioneer,
he has conducted some of Sotheby’s most prestigious sales, including the Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis Sale, the sale of the Property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and The Barry Halper
Sale of Baseball Memorabilia. Mr. Hildesley holds the record for any Canadian painting, having
sold Paul Kane’s Captain Lefroy in 2002 for $5.2 million. Recently, he was the auctioneer respon-
sible for the sale of the Guennol Lioness, of 3000 B.C., which sold for $57 million, a record for
any sculpture sold at auction at the time. Mr. Hildesley trains Sotheby’s new auctioneers, and
conducted 60 benefit auctions in 2010, raising over $15 million for charitable purposes. He has
lectured widely on the art market and is author of The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling at
Auction. Mr. Hildesley is Chairman of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust and
a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (F.R.S.A.).