Last week, a strange thing happened within Charlotte's old Rotary Club. A group of Asian Americans, from Korean to Vietnamese to Thai, gathered over dinner and launched a Rotary of their own. They called it, proudly, the Charlotte Asian-American Rotary Club.

Less unusual was the host of the inaugural: At the center of it all, of course, was the ubiquitous Korean-born businessman Ki-Hyun Chun, (rhymes with "run"), whose rep as a power broker within the ranks of disenfranchised Asian immigrants now places him, ironically, at the heart of the Charlotte's business mainstream.

Charlotte's Asian Power Broker Is on a Mission
by Ron Stodghill
Posted: Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010 on www.charlotteobserver.com

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