Martin Hyun

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Martin Hyun
Date of birth 4th May 1979
place of birth Krefeld , Germany
size 180 cm
Weight 85 kg
position wing
number # 71
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1997 Krefelder EV
1997-1998 Benilde-St. Margaret's School
1998-1999 Northwood Prep School
1999-2003 St. Michael's College
2003-2004 Chiefs Leuven
2004-2005 Krefeld penguins

Martin (Jong-bum) Hyun (born May 4, 1979 in Krefeld ) is a former German ice hockey player of Korean origin and author who, in addition to his sporting successes, is also known for his statements on the subject of integration . He was the first Korean-born ice hockey player in the German Ice Hockey League . From 2015 to 2018, Hyun was the sports technical director for ice hockey and sledge hockey at the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Career

Hyun (right) in the jersey of the Krefeld Penguins

In his youth, Hyun played for the Krefeld Ice Skating Club (KEV), to whose amateur team he belonged from the 1995/96 season . After good performance in the Krefeld Pinguine farm team , Hyun was appointed to the professional squad in the 1996/97 season by the then head coach of the penguins, Miroslav Berek . The 17-year-old striker scored two goals in a preparatory game against the Duisburg Füchse . Hyun spent most of the season in the penguins' farm team and finished with twelve points in 27 games.

Equipped with a production license for the Krefeld Penguins, Hyun moved to the United States. There he played for the renowned high school team Benilde-St. Margaret's in the State of Minnesota and Northwood Prep in Lake Placid in the State of New York . In Minnesota and New York, Hyun has always been one of the top performers on his team. After a successful season in New York, Hyun was courted by numerous college teams, including Colby College and the College of the Holy Cross , which are part of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Ultimately, Hyun decided to play for the St. Michael's Purple Knights of St. Michael's College , Vermont . At the Purple Knights, too, Hyun was one of the top performers on his team and was able to score 15 points in 25 games in his rookie season . In his penultimate season with St. Michael's College Purple Knights, he became Division II Northeast Champion of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association .

After completing his political studies at St. Michael's College in Vermont, Hyun moved to the Belgian Eredivisie , where he was signed by the Chiefs Leuven . In Belgium, Hyun enrolled for a master's degree in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. In the 2004/05 season he moved to his home club Krefeld Pinguine in the German Ice Hockey League . In memory of the guest worker history of his Korean parents, who came to Germany in 1970 and 1971, he wore the number 71. Hyun played his first DEL game on September 17, 2004 against the Kölner Haie . This made Hyun officially the first player with Korean roots to ever play a DEL game.

From 1994 to 1998, the right winger went through all junior national teams of the German Ice Hockey Federation and took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 1995 in Moncton, Canada in the province of New Brunswick . Despite other offers, including from the newly formed Asia League Ice Hockey , Hyun ended his young professional career in order to orientate himself in his new professional career.

Study and job

Martin Hyun presents Federal President Christian Wulff with a Hockey is Diversity jersey

Hyun is a political scientist and holds a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England . He completed his bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in international business at St. Michael's College in the American state of Vermont. After Hyun finished his active sports career, he started working in the parliamentary office of former South Korean Minister of Health and Social Affairs Kim Chong-in. Due to his commitment to international understanding between Germany and Korea, Hyun was appointed to the reunification council of Korean President Roh Moo-hyun (Advisory Council on Democratic and Peaceful Unification) in 2005 . During the state visit of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on 11 April 2005 by President Hyun was Horst Koehler to Schloss Charlottenburg invited. There, Hyun presented the Federal President with a Krefeld Penguin jersey . In September 2008 the Eb-Verlag from Hamburg published its debut work "Lautlos-Ja Sprachlos-Nein: Grenzgänger Between Germany and Korea". The book deals with the fate of his countrymen. Hyun receives prominent support from his friend Wladimir Kaminer . In Kaminer's book "Salve Papa", he tells about Hyun in the chapter "The Talent". In 2010, Kaminer and Hyun traveled to South Korea at the invitation of the Goethe Institute . In addition to a joint literature performance, Kaminer's Russian disco was also held. As a representative of a Korean migrant association, Hyun took part in the annual conference Forum Demographic Change in September 2008, which was initiated by Federal President Horst Köhler and the Bertelsmann Foundation. Hyun was part of the first season of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's leadership program, a network for executives from immigrant organizations.

Social and political engagement

In the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008, he was also one of 12 honorary ambassadors in Germany. The aim of the European Commission's campaign was to inform people in all 27 EU countries about the benefits of diversity and to inspire them to engage in intercultural exchange. In 2010, Hyun founded the Hockey is Diversity initiative , an association of current and former German ice hockey players with a migration background. Already during his active time as a Krefeld Pinguine player, Hyun was able to attract a group of personalities from the sports, film and social sectors. a. the film producer Christian Becker, on every Christmas Eve since 2004 in the Children's Cancer Clinic of the Krefeld Clinic, distributing gifts to the sick children. Since 2010, Hyun has been a sponsor of the School without Racism - School with Courage campaign . In June 2012 his second book was published, “No rice without diligence: how I became a good German”. The writer and columnist is also the brainchild of the German-Korean community postage stamp, which was ceremoniously presented by Federal President Joachim Gauck in Goslar on June 21, 2013 and is intended to commemorate the 50-year German-Korean recruitment agreement (1963-2013) and 130 years of diplomatic relations .

Life

Martin Hyun grew up as the middle of two siblings in Krefeld. He is the son of South Korean guest workers who were recruited by the Federal Republic of Germany as miners in 1970 and as nurses in 1971. Hyun has lived in Berlin since 2008, completed his doctorate on the subject of Korean migrant workers in Germany in 2018 and married his long-time girlfriend in December 2014.

Olympic Winter Games 2018

Martin Hyun as an Olympic torch-bearer

The South Korean Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG) appointed Martin Hyun as the technical sports director in the field of ice hockey and sledge ice hockey for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games from January 1, 2015 . Due to his social commitment and commitment to international understanding between Germany and Korea, Hyun was the XXIII. Winter Olympics selected. In the 8-0 victory of the Swedish ice hockey women against the united Korean team, Mickie Krause's hit hit "Düp, Düp" came from the loudspeakers. Hyun had Mickie Krause's song deleted from the playlist. When the Korean national player Randi Griffin, an American with South Korean roots, scored the only goal of an all-Korean team at the Olympics in the preliminary round of the 1: 4 against Japan, Hyun secured the historic puck, which is now in the Canada's Hall of Fame Fame is on display in Toronto, Canada.

Sporting successes

  • 2002: ECAC Division II Northeast Champion

Awards

  • 2014: Integration award for exceptional commitment in the field of integration, awarded by the Turkish business association SYNKO Synergie Köln e. V. (February 5, 2014)

bibliography

  • Instructions for use for South Korea Piper Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-27724-2 .
  • No rice without diligence: How I became a good German. btb-Verlag (Random House), Munich 2012, ISBN 3-442-75343-0 .
  • Silent-yes Speechless-no: Cross-border commuters between Germany and Korea. Eb-Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-936912-84-5 .
  • Giving up is not my way: educational worlds in the immigration society. Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-89204-982-1 . (with a contribution by Martin Hyun)
  • Karsten Krampitz, Heiko Werning (Ed.): Home, Homesickness, Visitation. Kramer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87956-338-8 . (with a contribution by Martin Hyun)
  • Marvin Oppong (Ed.): Migrants in German Politics VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17057-2 . (with a contribution by Martin Hyun)

See also

Press reviews

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Convinces with a humorous and incorruptible look!"

- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 11, 2019

Deutschlandradio Kultur

"Funny, friendly, at the same time profound and at times sharply formulated!"

- Deutschlandradio Kultur, July 22, 2012

taz. the daily newspaper

"Humorous and critical, an important contribution to the integration debate!"

- Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (taz), March 22, 2013

Vladimir Kaminer

“Since I've been in Germany, I've been treated as something special here, namely as a person with a migration background. A migration background is something that everyone has, they are doomed to leave the familiar landscape for their entire life, be it school, family or mother's stomach. They break out to seek happiness in a foreign country. They bring color to life. Finally someone wrote about it - Martin Hyun. "

- Wladimir Kaminer, April 15, 2012

Friday

"Funny, ironic, entertaining and also very illuminating!"

- Friday 17th June 2012

Web links

Commons : Martin Hyun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Statistics Martin Hyun on rodi-db.de
  3. ↑ USCHO
  4. ↑ Statistics Martin Hyun on eurohockey.net
  5. ↑ The silent model migrants (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  6. ↑ The personal guest: Martin Hyun. on funkhauseuropa.de ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Celebrities as Christmas angels in the children's clinic . wz-newsline.de of December 26, 2011.
  8. ^ Students from Oppum show courage . wz-newsline.de from December 17, 2010.
  9. ↑ No rice without hard work, information about the book on the publisher's website
  10. ↑ http://www.migazin.de/2013/06/20/bundespraesident-gauck-stell-deutsch-koreanische-gemeinschaftsbriefmarke-vor/
  11. ↑ DPA-RegiolineGeo: Federal President: Gauck presents German-Korean postage stamp. In: Focus Online . June 20, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  12. ↑ PyeongChang: German-Koreans is the Hockey Director. In: hockeyfans.ch. December 4, 2014, accessed February 26, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Olympic Manager Martin Hyun "My lifetime was reduced by ten years"
  14. ↑ "Düp,% 20Düp"% 20 from% 20 the% 20 loudspeakers. Olympia-off for Mickie Krause: hit hit banned (Eurosport)
  15. ↑ "Korea's Nation Puck Keeper Longs for Currywurst"
  16. ↑ William Douglas: Randi Griffin scores Korea's first-ever Winter Olympics ice hockey goal ( English ) TheColorOfHockey. February 14, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  17. ↑ Saint Michael's College wins ECAC East Division II Championship
  18. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Hyun, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hyun, Jong-Bum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th May 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld