Daniel Jakob Lindemann (born 16 October 1985) is a

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who lives and performs in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

as a television personality and marketing manager. He was a cast member in the talk show ''

Non-Summit ''Non-Summit'' (), also known as ''Abnormal Summit'', is a South Korean television program on JTBC which first aired on July 7, 2014. The show features a panel of non-Korean men, living in South Korea, who debate on various topics and "Korean cu ...

''.

Personal life

He can play the

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

, having been trained from the age of 10 until his teens, and releasing a classical music album with songs composed and played on the piano, called Esperance.The Korea Times: INTERVIEW , Korean-speaking German honorary ambassador for Seoul releases first album
/ref> He holds a black belt in both

Taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. ...

and

Hapkido Hapkido ( , , also spelled ''hap ki do'' or ''hapki-do''; from Korean language, Korean 합기도 ''hapgido'' ) is a Eclecticism#Martial arts, hybrid Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, grappling, throw (g ...

, having trained in Taekwondo since he was 12 when he still lived in his native Germany and earned his black belt there, while the black belt in Hapkido was earned after starting to train Hapkido in a famous Hapkido studio in

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the Capital city, capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the North Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea ...

, the capital and most populous city in

.한양저널: Daniel Jakob Lindemann: A German Broadcaster, Making Korea Smile
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Filmography

Television series

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindemann, Daniel 1985 births Living people German Roman Catholics German male taekwondo practitioners German television personalities German expatriates in South Korea Hapkido practitioners Television people from Cologne University of Bonn alumni German people of Israeli descent