Young H. D. Kim

"I always thought I was a bad chess player, but now I truly understand the beauty of chess. It took, indeed, a long time to find myself in this place; many small moves that didn't seem really moving forward all combined eventually to have led me here as I planned years ago." -- Young H. D. Kim

It all started with his efforts to find his origin while going to college in California. Since then he’s been asking himself a question to answer until he could proceed to another question, generated from the answer for the preceding question.

Young’s family came from Korea. Though he later found out they were originally nomadic riders from the Steppes in Cauc-as-us (also generally spelled Cauc-as-ia: Rooster-noblemen’s-land), the family lived in Korea for over a thousand years, so he visited South Korea countless times looking for his background during and after studying architecture design, history and international politics in three different colleges.

A former Marine Officer, national security analyst and English educator, Young has lived in 4 different countries: France, Japan, South Korea and the United States, travelling around 40 countries.

The author Young H. D. Kim, whose life has always been that of a global citizen with his open mind towards the differences, has deep and practical knowledge in different languages and ways of life.

Many notice that his capability in understanding and accepting differences among different societies in global-scale is part of his core personality built upon the many years of his struggle under the unfamiliar and tough circumstances he had to face in different regions across the globe.

And this unusual life experience both in the field and on the desk gave him the unusual insight to see through the differences to find our common Humanity from our common origin and nature hidden behind our current appearances.

He is multilingual fluent in French, Japanese, English and Korean.

While learning two more tongues called Chinese and Russian, he’s been also studying so-called the Indo-European and Altaic Languages such as German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindu, Turkish, Kazakh, Mongolian and Manchurian along with all their Old and Middle forms and sounds to have found numerous “similarities (sam[e]= sym'il-ur'i-t-ies)” that we’ve been taught as [slight] “differences.”

Since reading and writing are his work as an analyst and an author, in his spare time, he often goes on a field trip with friends and family, attends several Toastmasters clubs to communicate with speakers who bring stories from all different countries, and enjoys playing basketball, chess or go (baduk) game with his club members.

Once you take a chance to talk to Young, with his genuine love of humor and all, you will be pleasantly hit by his fresh perspective revealing the obvious facts that will wake up the real world for you.