Give the Greatest Gift of All, Which is Love | Paul Kim | Legacy Project Maryland

Paul Kim was born in Seoul and immigrated to the United States in 1996. His family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, fulfilling his father’s dream of moving to America. When Paul entered middle school, the family moved from St. Paul to the surrounding suburbs, which Paul recounts as having much better schools than the city, albeit being much less diverse than the city itself. Education was of utmost importance in the Kim family, and Paul chased what he believed was, at the time, the natural pipeline that was getting good grades, getting into college, and landing a high-paying job. Paul graduated from university convinced he wanted to become a businessman, so he moved to Chicago to work as a trader. After two years in Chicago, he relocated to Portland, where he worked as the only Asian worker at his workplace, to trade grain with Asia. While in Oregon, he received an offer from a different firm in Chicago, but it wasn’t until after he moved back to the Midwest that he learned his offer had been reneged. He eventually found work again as a trader but was compelled through his faith to find a higher calling in philanthropy. In partnership with a church in South Korea, Paul leveraged the skills he’d gained in industry to buy grain and ship it to North Korea, over time expanding the type and scale of the humanitarian efforts he found himself involved in.
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Interviewer: HJ Lee
Videographers: Janice Chung @janicekaramchung and Kimberly Young Sun
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[@pearlfavor5043]

Thank you Sir, Paul Kim for sharing your story. I'm so blessed and inspired today by your story. I should stop judging people but love them.
God bless you.

[@ellemababa4023]

Pleasantly surprised by the conclusion of this story, at first i thought it was going to be another self made humble brag success story but he gave the glory to God. Wonderful ❤.

[@younpark6495]

Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@johnlim2133]

Thank you for sharing your story about transforming your transactional relationship with God to an authentic, loving relationship.

[@szszszsz95395]

Dear KA Story. Paul immigrated to the US in 1966, not 1996. Please make the correction.

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Thank you for sharing.

[@samzzi3]

Correction ...1966 *** not 1996