Maryland's first lady Yumi Hogan is already hugely popular in the state's Asian-American community. Now, her instrumental role in Maryland's response to the coronavirus pandemic — helping to secure 500,000 test kits from South Korea — has emphatically shown that there's much more behind
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland's first lady Yumi Hogan is already hugely popular in the state's Asian-American community. Now, her instrumental role in Maryland's response to the coronavirus pandemic — helping to secure 500,000 test kits from South Korea — has emphatically shown that there's much more behind her gracious demeanor and artistic talent.
“She is a celebrity and a rock star, really, in the Korean American community in the region, and so her being in the governor’s mansion with Mr. Hogan, it’s a really big deal for folks — back home in Korea as well as here,” said Del. David Moon, a Democrat whose parents immigrated from Korea. Yumi Kim was the youngest of eight children on a chicken farm outside Seoul before she emigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s with her first husband. She later divorced and was raising three daughters in Maryland's Howard County when she met Hogan, who then ran a real estate company. They married in 2004.
She's also an adjunct professor at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her artwork — abstract pieces that use traditional Hanji paper and Sumi ink and mixed media — has been shown in museums in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and South Korea. The governor said Maryland began working on a “confidential project called Operation Enduring Friendship” when he asked his wife to join him on a call with South Korea's ambassador to the U.S., Lee Soo-hyuck, on March 28.
“Most importantly, I want to thank Maryland’s first lady, my wife Yumi,” Hogan said. “She truly is a champion of ‘Operation Enduring Friendship.’”
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