Okay. A little bit about myself. I was born on October 29, 1978 in
Seoul, Korea. I moved from Seoul to Cleveland, Ohio when I was 4 years
old. This was because my father, who at the time was a mechanical
engineer, was invited to come to America by his older brother, who had
been living in Cleveland for some time. So he took his wife, who was
studying to receive her phD, and his two sons, and brought us to
America. Upon moving here, he opened up a retail clothing store in
downtown Cleveland. But things changed dramatically. My father received
the calling to ministry, so decided to enroll in seminary. At the age of
12, in 1990, my family, now including my youngest brother, moved from
Cleveland to Mill Valley, California, and Golden Gate Baptist Theological
Seminary, where my father studied and received his MDiv. Upon graduation
from seminary, we moved to Palo Alto, California, where the church my
father was serving at was located. I was 15 at the time, and we have been
living in Palo Alto since that time.
Okay. A bit about my family. As stated earlier, I have two parents and
two younger brothers. My father is a pastor at Living Water Baptist
Church, located in Newark, CA. My mother is a professor of the Korean
language at De Anza Community College. My younger
brother Mark is a 20 yr old sophomore at De Anza as well. My
youngest brother Daniel is a 17 yr old junior at Gunn High School.
I just graduated from the University of California,
Berkeley on May 17, 2002, with a B.A. in
Development Studies, which is a study of developing (3rd world) countries
through interdisciplinary perspectives, including economics, history,
political science, anthropology, and other disciplines. I am currently working part-time for W&MF, and
am looking for fulltime work in the healthcare sector. I would like to attend Public Health graduate
school in a couple years.
I am a Christian. This is an important aspect of my life, and a source
of identity for me. I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and
Savior at the age of 8, and was baptized shortly after. But not until
eighth grade did I fully realize that being a Christian meant more than
just abiding by all the rules, obeying my parents, and living a moral
life. Since then, I have been trying to cultivate a relationship with
God, who desires to have a relationship with those who believe in Him.
