Tyler Rasch

Tyler Rasch
Born May 6, 1988
Vermont
Ethnicity American
Occupation Television personality, webzine editor
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Tyler Josef Rasch (born May 6, 1988) is an American graduate student who lives and performs in South Korea as a television personality. He is currently a cast member in the talk-variety shows Non-Summit,[1]and Hot Brain: Problematic Men.[2]

Personal

Early life, education, and work in the U.S.

Rasch was born and raised in the United States; his father was an Austrian immigrant.[3][4]

He graduated from a college-preparatory high school, The Putney School in Putney, Vermont in 2006.[5]The school sits on a 500-acre working dairy farm,[6]with a student-lead "work program"[7]and the belief that "education is something to be actively pursued rather than passively received."[6]He said of the farm there, " It promotes a work ethic in the Putney School which prepares its students for the real world.”[8]

Being the son of an immigrant and growing up in Vermont, near the Canadian border, where a lot of people speak English and French, he was interested in other languages at a young age. He first learned French, then at college, traded out different languages every semester, adding Spanish, German, Portuguese[3]and also studied Japanese.[5]He felt that language is useful for learning about other cultures, and decided to focus on a language that would be very different than the U.S. culture. A close friend of his was studying Chinese, so he found a Korean book, and started to learn to write it, which he found easy, but speaking was more difficult.[3]

He had several aspirations for his future, from dreams of being a paleontologist to being a music conductor, and at college application time, had decided to go into the music field, with recordings and CDs prepared. Instead, after meeting a University of Chicago representative who visited his high school, with their long list of language studies and a variety of other things to choose from, he decided to broaden his interest of studies, feeling music too limited.[3]

At the university from 2006, he graduated with a B.S. in International Relations in 2010, while pursuing the goal of becoming a diplomat. While at college, he served in a number of training and intern positions. In 2009, he was a Litigation Intern at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and a Program Assistant, then a Program Coordinator at the US-Asia Institute. In 2010, he was an Intern at the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.[5]

After graduating, he moved to the Washington metropolitan area where he was Special Assistant to the Ambassador of the Embassy of South Korea, Washington, D.C. from June 2010 – July 2011.[5]

Korean education

In 2008, while still studying at the University of Chicago, in the U.S., he travelled to Seoul for three months to attend the co-ed Korean language studies at Ewha Womans University.[9]

In 2011, he moved to Seoul, and studied Korean at the Seoul National University Korean Language Education Center, and in 2012, began pursuing his Master's degree in International Relations at Seoul National University (SNU).[5][10]

Between July 2013 and July 2014, he helped start, and worked with other SNU foreign students, on a webzine about Seoul, "Seoulism", as he stated, "to be a means to gather foreigners and Koreans altogether so that we could become a community to initiate a forum of conversation."[11][10][12][5][13][14]

From February - July 2014, he was an Intern at the private think tank, the Institute for Global Economics (IGE) at the World Trade Center Seoul.[5][15][16]

Career

On July 7, 2014, he began starring in the new JTBC talk-variety show Non-Summit, that is made of a cast of young men from different countries, living in Seoul, who debate and discuss issues, in Korean, with perspectives they bring from their various cultures, from their native countries. Early promotions noted him as a detailed scholar who read the works of Mencius.[12]He said that Non-Summit supported the government scholarship, including a year of language training, that he and his co-star Ghanaian Sam Okyere were part of, when he started on the show.[3]

Due to the popularity of the show, he made a surprise appearance on "Arguments," another JTBC talk show about current affairs.[17]

In February through April, 2015, he starred for ten episodes, in the Non-Summit spinoff reality-travel show Where Is My Friend's Home along with other cast members for the first two trips, to China and to Belgium, to visit the homes of cast members from those countries.[18][19]

On February 26, 2015, he became part of the cast of a new tvN talk-variety show Hot Brain: Problematic Men with six men, "boasting a high IQ and unique way of thinking".[2][20]The show is also referred to as "Brain-sexy man" using a newly coined term that is becoming popular in Korea, and Rasch is called "an American student who speaks very fluent and high-standard Korean".[21]

He writes newspaper columns for JoongAng Ilbo, with topics like "study abroad",[22]and guests on talk shows, including Arirang TV's "News Tellers" to discuss education, immigration, jobs, and current affairs issues.[23]

Celebrity and endorsements

He is a model for Subway,[24][25]Korean made Binggrae yogurt, Yopa, of Yoplait yogurt,[26][24]and the EDM Study Center.[9][27]

On March 25, 2015, he attended a Korean Traditional Food Tasting Event hosted by the KTO and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, along with U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert, on one of the Ambassador's first public appearances after recovering from a knife-attack in early March.[28]

In April 2015, He and Non-Summit cast member Ilya Belyakov attended a ceremony for the new "Koreans and Foreigners Together" program as Honorary Culture Sharing Ambassadors of the Korea Foundation.[29]

Filmography

Television series

Year Title Network Role Notes
2014 Non-Summit JTBC Himself cast member[1]
2015 Where Is My Friend's Home JTBC Himself cast member[30]
2015 Hot Brain tvN Himself cast member[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kim, Slater (August 27, 2014). "이런 비정상 G11 때문에 월요일이 기다려지다니, 이런 나 비정상인가요?" (in Korean). Naeil Shot Magazine. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kim, Ji-Min (March 3, 2015). "New quiz show ‘Wise Guy’ launches". JoongAng Ilbo. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Tyler Rasch's Interview - Culture Donation (translation)". Blogger K-Variety Show Mania. February 25, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ [10월 문화 교육기부 주간] 타일러 라쉬 인터뷰 영상 (in Korean). YouTube KOFAC Teach for Korea. September 23, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 "Tyler Rasch". LinkedIn. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Putney School "The Putney School, What We Do, Spring 2005". Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Putney School, Work Program". The Putney School. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Why the Farm is Important" (PDF). The Putney School. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 ‘비정상회담’ 타일러 라쉬, 유학원 광고모델 발탁 (in Korean). Ten Asia. November 4, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kim, Seung-hoon (August 31, 2014). "More foreign students in Korean universities". Hancinema. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  11. ↑ Tselmeg Chuluunbaatar, Yeun-Il Jeong. "Let’s talk about Korea… in Korean! Vol. 46 Oct. 2013". The SNU Quill. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Kwon, Hye-rim (July 1, 2014). "JTBC '비정상회담', 이 패널들 심상치않다(종합)'미수다' 연상시키는 콘셉트, 패널 재치는 한 수 위" (in Korean). Inews24. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  13. ↑ Seoulism 국제학생 잡지 (in Korean). Seoulism. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  14. ↑ Kim, Nam-joo (December 5, 2013). "타일러 라쉬, “한국인과 소통 원해요”" (in Korean). AsiaN. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  15. ↑ "NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks, Institute for Global Economics (IGE)". National Institute for Research Advancement. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  16. ↑ "IGE Location". IGE Institute for Global Economics. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  17. ↑ "‘Non Summit’ ratings peak". JoongAng Ilbo. September 11, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  18. ↑ Ahn, Woorim (January 6, 2015). "Nonsummit Members To Visit Zhang Yian\'s House". BNT News. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  19. ↑ Ghim, Sora (February 11, 2015). "Julian Quintart Is Next To Reveal His Home In Belgium". Yahoo! News Singapore/BNT News. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  20. ↑ Ghim, Sora (February 18, 2015). "The ‘Problematic Men’ Have A Mental Breakdown". BNT News. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Brain-sexy man". The Dong-a Ilbo. March 27, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  22. ↑ Rasch, Tyler (February 12, 2015). [타일러 라쉬의 비정상의 눈] 외국 유학의 가장 큰 이득은? (in Korean). JoongAng Ilbo. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Newstellers Ep3". Arirang TV. April 29, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Kim, Min-Ji (October 16, 2014). ‘비정상회담’ G11, 광고계도 접수한 대세남들 (in Korean). ENews24. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  25. ↑ 타일러 라쉬, 에네스 카야와 인증샷…"광고 촬영장에서" (in Korean). NewsZum. October 8, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  26. ↑ 빙그레 요거트 YOPA 출시기념, 영양가없는 오빠 투표 이벤트 (in Korean). Sport Seoul. October 22, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  27. ↑ "깨우세요, 성장본능"…edm유학센터, 동영상 ‘두정상회담’ 선보여 (in Korean). Money Week. February 9, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  28. ↑ 리퍼트 대사 "업무 복귀해 정말 좋다" 피습후 첫 블로그 (in Korean). Asian Economy. April 1, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  29. ↑ "Launch Ceremony for 'KF Together' Program". Korea Foundation. April 29, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  30. ↑ Ghim, Sora (January 29, 2015). "JTBC Show ‘Where Is My Friend’s House’ Releases Official Posters". Yahoo! News Singapore/BNT News. Retrieved February 2, 2015.

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