Meet the Committee

I was born in Leeds and, before moving to Korea, my biggest moves were to Newcastle Upon Tyne, where I took a degree in Business and to Staines, just outside London, where I did my professional accountancy qualification. I also met my husband Glen there, as we were both working for British Gas.

Several jobs, five house moves and three teenage sons later, we came to Seoul in March 2006. We have enjoyed our time here very much and made lots of great friends. I have taken classes in Korean language, hanji and Korean cooking and studied a course in teaching English conversation.

I enjoy exercising, anything from Spinning classes to skiing and walking our gorgeous English cocker spaniel Sunny. I also had a brief affair with Touch (rugby), as part of the now legendary Han Bags team. My latest interest is Pilates, so don't forget to tell me how toned I'm looking next time you see me!

I arrived in Seoul summer 2008, having left the UK in August 2002 for Dubai then being moved to Taiwan 4 years later.

I have two children, Emma who is at SFS High School and Ben who is at SFS British School. We also have a Siamese cat called Smokey and a cat adopted here in Korea called TongDong. My husband, John has worked for HSBC all his working life which is where we first met.

I have had many jobs within HSBC including Finance Manager at a UK regional head office. In Dubai I worked as a nursery school teacher, teaching 4 year olds, and in Taiwan I worked at an international school teaching children with special needs 1:1.

My favourite hobby is playing 'World of Warcraft' a great computer game, I'm addicted!

My name is Midori Cannon.  I'm originally from Japan.  I'm married to a British man and we have 3 children.  I was in banking  for about 10 years including Korean bank and Dutch bank but I met my husband while I was working at Midland Bank (HSBC) in Tokyo.  We lived in Tokyo, New York and London (in Wimbledon for 10 years) before we moved to Hong Kong in 2007.  We came to Seoul in January 2009.

I am Korean and have lived in Seoul for my whole life except for studying MBA, Business Management in USA for three years.  I met my husband, Gavin during my summer vacation from USA as an event organizer in Seoul.  Since then we have married in Seoul and lived here continuously.  We have one son, 21 years old, Ranald who is studying in Australia.

I have twenty two years professional experience with multinational companies in Korea.  I had my own company, Bridge, a relocation company primarily providing services for incoming expatriates.  Now, I am Vice President of Gavin's Sausages.

I have been a member of BASS since 1989 and worked as a committee member as Korean Liaison for most of these years.  I enjoy meeting new people and like helping expatriates bridge the cultural gap between their countries and Korea.