[1] He was also reportedly the longest independently living foreigner in Korea[citation needed] and continued to maintain his U.S. citizenship.
His original academic interest was Native Americans but he later focused on traditional Korean culture[citation needed].
He graduated on December 19, 1958, with the first Master of Arts Degree in Korean language and literature in the U.S. Dustin joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in his first year of college.
He was drafted in September 1951, during the Korean War, and spent December and January in the Band Training Unit at Camp Roberts in Fort Ord, California.
Dustin began teaching at Yonhi University (연희대학교) in Seoul on September 11, 1955, as a lecturer in English, his position funded by The Asia Foundation.
He was actively associated with the introduction of basketball into the Republic of Korea through the formation of the Yonhi University team during this period[citation needed].
He was a visiting professor at Sejong University (세종대학교), where he also served as a technical advisor to the student sailing club.
He taught at Hongik University (홍익대학교) as a visiting professor (객원교수) and was also a lecturer in English at the Korea Institute of Finance (한국금융연구원).
Dustin was a staff teacher for the University of Maryland's Far East department and he appeared weekly on an educational television program in 1986 and 1987.
His classes are fondly remembered by a great number of Jeju residents, as well as the frequent social gatherings at his home in the forest outside of Kimnyoung Village.
Under a grant from the Asia Foundation, Dr. Dustin prepared the first guidebook on Jeju, published as "An Introduction to Cheju Island" in 1978.
The money is divided roughly evenly between a "life-education" program for marine leisure sports activities and the university's development fund to pay for foreign professors' salaries.