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Korean Trailblazer has international appeal

Portland Trailblazer Seung-jin Ha, right, hands the basketball to one of the attendees of a Trailblazer Mini-Basketball clinic held last month at Portland Christian High School in Mid-county.

MEMO PHOTO: TIM CURRAN

Last month, at Portland Christian High School, Jane Olson Mauk turned the auction item she purchased at the Oregon Korean Foundation annual dinner for her son and three friends — lunch with Portland Trailblazer and Korean National Seung-jin Ha — into a Portland Trail Blazer Mini-Basketball Clinic for 53 Korean high school and college exchange students, Portland Christian athletes and members of the Korean Chamber of Commerce church youth group.
Mauk, president of the Northwest Korean Culture Society, and mother of Portland Christian High School student Erik Mauk, arranged to expand her auction item and reach out to as many young Koreans in our community as possible. To that end, she arranged for student participation from the International College Exchange student summer program at Concordia College, the Portland State University Summer International Exchange Program, the Global World International High School Exchange Program and the Oregon Korean Chamber of Commerce.
The kids, many never having played basketball before, took to it rapidly, having fun and meeting Seung-jin Ha, a well-known sports figure in South Korea.