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The South Korean Kim Sun-il, had been working in Iraq as an Arabic interpreter for a year.
After graduating from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, last February with a degree in Arabic, he immediately landed a job at the Gana General Trading Company, which supplies goods to the U.S. military.
Family members have said that he requested a posting to Iraq so that he could make money to study in graduate school with hopes of later becoming a simultaneous interpreter of Arabic and Korean.
Born in September 1970 in the southeastern port city of Busan, Kim Sun-il once dreamed of becoming a missionary in the Middle East and after receiving a diploma in English from a local college he started to study theology before transferring to Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Though a self-made man, Kim Sun-il was first and foremost a Christian and his parents said he "lived with no greed."
Arirang TV
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