Yoon Hwan Choi

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Yoon Hwan Choi
First Quorum of the Seventy
4 April 2009 (2009-04-04T01)
Called by Thomas S. Monson
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BornYoon Hwan Choi
(1957-05-18) 18 May 1957 (age 61)
Seoul, South Korea
Korean name
Hangul 최 윤 환
Revised Romanization Choi Yun-hwan
McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Yun-hwan

Yoon Hwan Choi (born 18 May 1957) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2009.

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LDS Church service

Choi joined the LDS Church in 1973, at age 16. His parents also joined the LDS Church at the same time, and his father, Dong Hun Choi, was influential in bringing many others into the church. The younger Choi has served in many church positions, including full-time missionary in the church's Korea Busan and Korea Seoul missions, bishop, high councilor, and stake president. Prior to his call to the First Quorum of the Seventy, Choi served as an area seventy and member of the Eighth Quorum of the Seventy in the Asia North Area. He served as a counselor in presidency of the Asia North Area from 2007 to 2011. In 2011 he was appointed as an Assistant Executive Director in the church's Temple Department. From July 2013 to July 2015, Choi served as president of the church's Seattle Washington Mission [1] before beginning another term of service as a counselor in the Asia North Area in August 2015. [2]

Busan Metropolitan City in Yeongnam, South Korea

Busan, formerly known as Pusan and now officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants. It is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern Korea, with its port—Korea's busiest and the 9th-busiest in the world—only about 120 miles (190 km) from the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Honshu. The surrounding "Southeast Economic Zone" is now South Korea's largest industrial area.

Seoul Special City in Seoul Capital Area, South Korea

Seoul, officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. With surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, Seoul forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area. Seoul is ranked as the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world and is larger than London and Paris.

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Education

Choi received a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University-Hawaii and holds a master’s degree in business information systems and education from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is located at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

Utah State University university

Utah State University is a public doctorate-granting university in Logan, Utah, United States. The coeducational, space-grant, land-grant, research university is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 18,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's largest public residential campus. As of Fall 2017, there were 27,679 students enrolled including 24,618 undergraduate students and 3,061 graduate students. The university has the highest percentage of out-of-state students of any public university in Utah totaling 23% of the student body.

Personal life

Choi has worked as a university instructor and as a sales manager and director in corporate settings, such as Data General Korea. At the time of his call as a general authority he was working as the regional manager of temporal affairs for the LDS Church in Korea.

From 1977 to 1980 Choi served as a staff sergeant in the South Korean Army.

Choi is married to Koo Bon-kyung, and they are the parents of three children.

References

  1. ↑ "New mission presidents by area for 2013", Church News , March 5, 2013, retrieved 2013-09-16
  2. ↑ "LDS First Presidency announces area leadership assignments", Church News , 2 May 2015.
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