Foon Rhee

Sacramento Bee Associate Editor

Foon Rhee comes to Sacramento and editorial writing after reporting and editing for newspapers in Massachusetts and North Carolina and keeping his opinions to himself. So he managed to be a constituent of both Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Jesse Helms, as wide a gap in American politics as you could imagine. He was born in Korea, and grew up there as well as England, North Carolina and Ohio, making it pretty much unscathed through the disco and preppy eras simultaneously. He graduated from Duke, where he majored in history and college basketball, and went to graduate school during a fellowship at the University of Hawaii, where he learned how to study while reclining on the beach. He is thankful, and frankly amazed, to be still working in newspapers after all these years.