Q & A: Young Woon Ahn is on
a Mission to Spread the Korean
Spirit Around the World
Young Woon Ahn, president of the Overseas Migration Association
in South Korea, shares his insight about the booming investment
immigration market in his native country.
By EB5 Investors Magazine Staff
F
or many years, South Korean migration agent Young
Woon Ahn has had a global mindset. He was influenced
by the words of his grandfather, a noted Korean historian and
modern thinker, whose slogan was “from the nation to the
world.” Ahn has strived to make that vision a reality.
“I have always believed that the emigration business would
play an important role in achieving that dream,” he said. “This
represents the realization of the Korean national spirit moving
out of the confines of our small territory and spreading out
around the world.”
"...South Korean
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs has registered
about 80 migration
agencies..."
In January, Ahn took that dream a step further when he
was inaugurated as chairman of the Overseas Migration
Association, a nonprofit corporation established in 1996
with the goal of providing leadership and new thinking in
the immigration field, helping people get settled in their
new homes and providing well-being and goodwill between
members. He had previously served as the association’s vice
chairman, auditor and headed one of its committees.
Ahn said the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has
registered about 80 migration agencies, though only around
60 of those are actively doing business.
Ahn wants to improve those numbers. “All of our current
members have renewed their memberships and we are
pushing for as many companies as possible to join by the end
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