Your daily jolt: Korean-American to enter GOP race for U.S…. | Political Insider | www.ajc.com

We’re about to get a new Republican candidate in the 2014 race for U.S. Senate – but not anyone most of you have heard of, or would expect.

Eugene Chin Yu, a Korean-born but long-time resident of Augusta, has engaged political consultant Rich Thompson and is expected to announce his candidacy on Friday.

So far as we know, he’d be the first Korean to run for statewide office in Georgia.

Yu came here as a teenager, graduated from Butler High School in Augusta, and quickly became an American citizen. Yu, 60, is the past president of the Federation of Korean Associations, a group that he’s told others will help finance a multi-million dollar campaign.

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