Michael Breen (author)

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Michael Breen (born 31 July 1952, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK) is an author and journalist covering North and South Korea.

1 Personal history
2 Current work
3 Published works
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Personal history

Mr. Breen is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and first began living in South Korea in 1982.^[1] He has covered North and South Korea for several newspapers including The Guardian and the Washington Times.^[2] In 1994, he became a management consultant specializing in North Korea. He entered the public relations field in 1999 as the managing director of Merit/Burson-Marsteller where he remained until 2004. He is now president of Insight Communications Consultants, a public relations firm. Mr. Breen was made an honorary citizen of Seoul in 2001.

[edit] Current work

As of May 2008, Mr. Breen has a featured column for the Korea Times, an English-language daily in South Korea, where he comments on Korean society, culture, and political issues.^[3]