| 词条 | Carl Ferris Miller |
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| name = Dr Carl Ferris Miller | birth_name = | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|04|05}} | birth_place = Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|6|12|1921|04|05}} | death_place = | spouse = | occupation = | years_active = | module = {{Infobox Korean name | hangul = 민병갈 | hanja = {{linktext|閔|丙|葛}} | rr = Min Byeong-gal | mr = Min Pyŏnggal | child = yes}} }} Carl Ferris Miller (1921–2002), also known by the Korean name Min Byung-gal (민병갈), was an American-born South Korean banker and arborist. Dr CF Miller is the best known as the founder of the Chollipo Arboretum Foundation in Taean-gun, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, and one of the first Americans to be naturalized as a South Korean citizen. Early lifeMiller, a native of Pittston, Pennsylvania, was a Phi Beta Kappa chemistry major in college.[1] With the outbreak of World War II, he studied Japanese at the US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He went on to serve as a Naval Intelligence Officer. In 1945 he was assigned to seek out Japanese soldiers still on the island of Okinawa, questioning village residents during the day. At night, the soldiers would return to obtain food and other support from the villagers. According to William C. Sherman, in 1949 Miller was his deputy at the Performance Review Section of the Economic Cooperation Administration in Seoul. When the Korean War broke out in 1950, he was evacuated to Japan, returning in 1951. In 1953 Miller worked for South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea, until his retirement in the early 1980s. He became fluent in the Korean language and later worked as a financial advisor and broker with a number of South Korean financial firms, ending with Good Morning Securities. Miller eventually took the Korean name Min Byung-gal and in 1979 became a naturalized South Korean citizen. He was a skilled bridge player and traveled the world with the South Korean national team. He gave time and money to a number of worthwhile causes and extended personal assistance to many Koreans, including the continuing support of over 50 children.[1] Chollipo ArboretumDuring a 1962 swimming trip, a weekend getaway from Seoul, Miller was persuaded by a cash-poor, land-rich villager into buying a barren plot of land near the fishing village of Chollipo in Taean-gun. It sat idle until 1970, when, disgusted by Seoul's worsening air pollution, Mr. Miller moved his traditional Korean house from its Seoul location to his seaside retreat. When Miller settled at his new seaside retreat, he decided it needed some trees. He planted a few and then a few more. More villagers approached him to buy their land, so he did—and then he planted more trees. He later said he had had no idea he would create an arboretum recognized by international horticultural societies, no idea that he would give up his nationality and no idea he would be awarded the highest honor{{specify|date=March 2014}} the South Korean government can bestow on a civilian. He just wanted to plant a few trees.[2] Today the arboretum boasts a collection of millions of examples of the more than 13,200 species of trees and plants[3] that Mr. Miller spent 40 years collecting, growing and cultivating. In addition, the arboretum grounds are home to traditional tile-roofed wooden houses called hanok that he moved there and renovated.[2] AwardsMiller and his arboretum have received many awards including recognition by the United Kingdom's Royal Horticultural Society, the U.S. Freedom Foundation and the South Korean government. In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit by then-President Kim Dae-jung.[4] In 2005, Miller posthumously became the fifth person awarded the Forest Hall of Fame Award for the contribution of the Chollipo Arboretum to South Korea's forestry sector.[5] The International Dendrology Society picked the Chollipo Arboretum as the world's 12th site to be given an Arboretum Distinguished for Merit (the first to be so recognized in Asia) and the Holly Society of America named it the Official Holly Arboretum.[4] References{{Portal|South Korea|United States|Biography}}1. ^{{cite web| url=http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/interpreter61a.doc | work=US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project | title=The Interpreter | date=March 15, 2003 | accessdate=September 12, 2010}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Carl Ferris}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124167666204195343 | work=Wall Street Journal Online | title=Seoul: One Man's Dream of a World-Class Arboretum | date=May 8, 2010 | accessdate=September 12, 2010}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.chollipo.org/01_infor/infor_02_02.asp |publisher=Chollipo Arboretum |title=Blue-eyed Korean, Min Byoung-gal (Carl Ferris Miller) |accessdate=September 12, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=39962/ |work=Korea Times |title=Can Spring Be Far Behind? |date=February 20, 2009 |accessdate=September 12, 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929114225/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=39962%2F |archivedate=September 29, 2012 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sk.com/happychannel/news/news_view.asp?id=637 |work=SK Press Center |title=The Late Chairman Jong Hyun Choi: First Entrepreneur in Forest Hall of Fame |date=March 17, 2010 |accessdate=September 12, 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001214948/http://www.sk.com/happychannel/news/news_view.asp?id=637 |archivedate=October 1, 2011 |df= }} 11 : 1921 births|2002 deaths|University of Colorado alumni|American emigrants to South Korea|Naturalized citizens of South Korea|People from Pittston, Pennsylvania|Recipients of the Order of Industrial Service Merit|South Korean people of American descent|South Korean bankers|Arborists|Yeoheung Min clan |
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