Jin kyu robertson biography

Army major, received MA at the age of 43 and Ph. This single mother raised her daughter, an Army Brat, to be selected as a Presidential Scholar an honor given to only of 2. Robertson is a proud mother of her two children, Jasmin and Grant Cho. Jin Kyu Suh Robertson is proof we have the power to have better and happier lives—especially if we choose to act on our own behalf.

The audiences reconnect with the part of themselves that knows they have the power to do more with their lives --if they choose to act on their own behalf. Jin Kyu Robertson Ph. Home About All Books More. The beginning story of "Major Dream" begins with Jin receiving her PhD from Harvard at the age of 57 - not exactly the age of most college "students.

Jin kyu robertson biography

It was also the culmination of everything she had accomplished in her thirty-five years of being in America. Harvard degrees and the level of success that Jin has received as an International motivational speaker and writer didn't come easy for this Korean immigrant who began her life in America as a housemaid. Born in in a small Korean fishing village named Wollae, Jin was pretty much isolated from the world.

Her parents had never been to school and the family lived in abject poverty. By the time Jin was in sixth grade, she excelled at her studies, and her parents agreed to let her complete middle and high school. There was no money for college, so she worked in a factory, as a waitress and housemaid. One day, she saw a newspaper ad for a housemaid in America.

So it was quite a challenge, I suppose. So I practiced that and I started working as a hostess down in Wall Street. Little more than 10 years later, Jin was a U. She decided early that the key to her dreams was education. She started college while working in New York. She also met and married a man, but the marriage was difficult, and she found a way out by joining the Army.

Her English was poor and she was 10 years older than most of the other recruits. Basic training was grueling, but she persevered, and finished first in her class. The Army allowed her to continue her college studies and she would eventually become an officer. She found other opportunities in the military, and she pursued one she thought was tailor-made for an immigrant from Asia.

The Army employs regional specialists known as foreign area officers, and needed one in Japan.