After a few years in graduate school and a stint overseas teaching ESL in Cheju Island, South Korea, I returned to the east coast (Boston) and immersed myself in high-tech trends working for Pinestream Communications, where I edited two high-tech insider investment newsletters, Mobile Internet Times and Telecom Trends.

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Kim was born to middle-class farmers on Ha Enido, a small island in South Cholla province, but the family moved to the nearby port of Mokpo so Kim could complete high school.

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In 1951, when Rudy was seven, Harold moved the family to the Long Island town of Garden City South, settling in a neighborhood of neat new houses, near a new Catholic grade school that had been built to accommodate the city exodus.

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