Being a big K-drama fan who can read, write and speak Korean, Marie Antonia von Schonburg is now facing the tall task of helping German companies doing business here navigate political and economic uncertainty, both domestically and globally. The public relations expert, who grew up in the German industrial city of Stuttgart, started leading the Korean-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KGCCI) on April 1. When von Schonburg started her tenure, massive political rallies near the Constitutional Court were still taking place on her way to the KGCCI office near Cheong Wa Dae, the former official residence and office of Korea’s presidents until 2022. “Something I keep joking about is that wherever I go, there’s political turmoil,” von Schonburg told The Korea Times in a recent interview. “When I went to Catalonia, the Catalan independence movement started. Six weeks after I went to Sri Lanka, the [Sri Lankan] president was thrown out. Five days after I came to Korea, the [Korean] president was impeached.” Before her appointment as the president and CEO of the second-largest foreign cham
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