Robert E Kelly's Interview with BBC

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Today's news first.

(1) Gerry Mullany and Motoko Rich, 'BBC老爸' 谈家庭洋相：我穿裤子了. 纽约时报中文网, Mar 16, 2017
http://cn.nytstyle.com/internati ... essor-robert-kelly/

, which is translated from

Gerry Mullany and Motoko Rich, Bouncy Children, Furtive Wife and the Family Blooper That Stole th eInterview, New York Times, Mar 16, 2017.

Quote:

(a) "Robert E Kelly, the so-called 'BBC dad' * * * met with reporters along with his family on Wednesday [Mar 15]

(b) (In presence of two children and) "Kim Jeong-ah [take notice another transliteration is 'Jung-A'], Dr Kelly told the room full of reporters that when the BBC interview ended, he thought he would never be invited on television again.

(c) "Dr Kelly, who is from the United States, met Ms Kim, a yoga teacher, at a shopping mall in Seoul shortly after he moved to South Korea in 2008. He and his wife rarely talk about race, he said, but they wonder whether their mixed-race children will face prejudice growing up in Asia.


" 'So far we haven’t gotten any flak,' he said, noting that his daughter, who is bilingual, is doing well in a Korean kindergarten.



"

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(2) Alastair Gale, The Mortified Parents from That BBC Interview Are Laughing, Too; An unlocked door and video delay put Mr Kelly's cherubs on the global stage. Wall Street Journal, Mar 15, 2017 (front page).  
https://www.wsj.com/articles/whe ... y-speaks-1489511175
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifesty ... -AAolW33?li=BBnbcA0

Quote:

"In a heroic effort to try to save the day, Ms. Kim slid across the apartment hardwood floor into the room in her socks. In Korean homes, shoes are usually left at the door. Ms Kim tried to stay out of camera shot before rounding up the children. She says the delay on the TV feed she was watching meant she didn’t see the children in the room for a few seconds.

"Some journalists tracked down Mr Kelly's parents in the east side of Cleveland to ask them about it.

Note:
(a) Robert E Kelly, Associate Professor, Department Political Science and Diplomacy, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

(b)
(i) Busan  釜山 (Korean pronunciation: pu.san; romanized as Pusan before 2000)  en.wikipedia.org
(ii) Pusan National University  That (Pusan, not Busanl acronym: PNU) is the name on official website. (national; founded in 1946) en.wikipedia.org

(c) His daughter's name is Marion.

"Marion, a French diminutive form of Marie, which is derived from the Hebrew Miryām, a name of debated meaning"  Babyname.com

(d) "She was in hippity-hoppity mood"
(i) The word hippity-hoppity does not appear in any online (except one; see below) or print dictionary, not even Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary (print).
(ii) hippety-hop (adv or adj; variants: hippity-hop or hippety-hoppety or hippity-hoppity):
"with a hopping rhythm or motion  <the rabbit went hippety-hop across the lawn>  <rising and falling in their saddles, with a hippity-hop motion — Laura Krey>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hippety–hop

My guess is it came from the verb "hop."