Joseph Lim Kim

Joseph was born on the border of Kentucky and West by God Virginia where the Hatfields McCoys feuded for generations over a razorback pig He is the son of an immigrant from Seoul Korea and an Irish Catholic nun former beauty queen Miss Welch from the coal mining hollers of West Virginia His father Kim HakLim was a South Korean POW and left for dead after being marched to exhaustion by North Korean troops His grandmother who had secretly followed behind found him in a cave and nursed him back to health He had survived by eating crickets and insects His father eventually became a surgeon and was one of the first wave of Korean doctors to immigrate to the US During his postresidency he married Shirley Jean Daugherty after she left the convent