'Blue-eyed Korean' tasked with shaking up Seoul politics

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South Korea-born American doctor John Linton is on a mission no other foreigner has ever undertaken in ethnically homogenous South Korea: trying to shake up the country's highly confrontational politics.

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00:53 - Recently I was offered this job

01:03 and it shows you how much Korea has changed.

01:07 Very open-minded country.

01:10 The ruling party sincerely wants change.

01:15 And the chairman of the ruling party

01:19 asked me, he said, "We will give you full authority

01:23 "to tell us how to change direction."

01:26 Close to 100 head of states overseas.

01:29 His policies, I agree with, they're sound policies.

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