Background
Kim, Damian Byungsuk was born on March 15, 1934 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Arrived in the United States, 1964. Son of Bong-Ju Kim and Sang-Im Park.
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Kim, Damian Byungsuk was born on March 15, 1934 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Arrived in the United States, 1964. Son of Bong-Ju Kim and Sang-Im Park.
Doctor of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1959.
Chief alcoholism treatment program Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, 1978—1982, director psychiatic outpatient division, since 1982, associate chairman, since 1986. Assistant clinical professor State University of New York Medical School, Brooklyn, since 1979. Faculty American Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York City, 1982—1997.
Captain medicine Korean Air Force, 1959-1964, Korea.
President Society for Korean Studies at Stony Brook, New York, 1994. Founder, president Institute for Korean American Culture, since 1996. Chairman board directors Association for Trad.
Korean Performing Arts, New York, 1986—1996. Fellow: American Academy of Psychoanlyas. Member: American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, American Psychiatry Association (life).
Children: Steven Namgi, Jeanhee, Andrew Wonki.