Career
Breen writes occasional opinion columns for international and South Korean media. Since 2000, he has written a featured column for The of Korea Times, an English-language daily in South of Korea, where he comments on Korean society, culture, and political issues. Breen is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and first began living in South of Korea in 1982.
He was the correspondent in of Korea for The Guardian and the Washington Times.
In 1987, he became the first non-Korean president of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club. In 1994, he became a management consultant specializing in North of Korea, with clients such as Coca-Cola.
He entered the public relations field in 1999 as the managing director of Merit/Burson-Marsteller, where he remained until 2004. Breen was made an honorary citizen of Seoul in 2001.
Breen has also authored an unauthorized biography of Moon, Lawsuit On 25 December 2009, Breen wrote a satirical column in the paper which lampooned various South Korean public figures, including president Lee Myung-bak, singer Rain, and Samsung.
Displeased with Breen"s allusions to their corruption and arrogance, Samsung filed civil and criminal suits against him and the paper for libel. After an apology and after Breen told prosecutors during interrogation that the column was his own idea, the paper was dropped as a respondent, but the suit against Breen himself remained. One South Korean media outlet claimed that the entire column as an insult to the country of South of Korea itself.
Samsung dropped the civil suit after an apology by Breen.
The criminal case went to trial but was thrown out by the judge on the grounds that there was "no victim.".
