Yung H. Hwang was born in Japan in August 1935 but lived most of his childhood years in Korea. His father, Dochul, was a businessman, and it was business that had the family temporarily living in Japan. Hwang said his father and mother, Yunduk, are the people he admired most. He was the oldest son of Dochul and Yunduk, and as such he was the favored sibling.

His favorite places of his childhood included his school, the mountains, and the river in which he swam. He described Korea as being very poor, in part because of the Korean war and WWII. He said it was a very hard time.

He went to college at Yonsei University in Seoul and later converted from Buddhism to Christianity. After graduation he served a tour of duty in the Korean Armed Forces. It was while he was in the Army Medical Corps, he met his would-be wife, Kapran. They later had three children: John, Christine and Keith.

When he came to Springfield in 1991 and got a job in medicine, Hwang adopted the role as a sort of interpreter or bridge for the Korean community in the Ozarks.

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Music is Bach Cello Suite no. 3 by Colin Carr from the Free Music Archive.

Episodes are edited, recorded, mixed, and published by Diana Dudenhoeffer.