Background
He was born in Seoul, South of Korea. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey.
( You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your ...)
You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either. You're seeing your father for the first time in five years, and although he's nice enough, he might be, well--how can you put this delicately?--a loser. You can't speak English, but that doesn't stop you from working at East Meets West, your father's gift shop in a strip mall, where everything is new. Welcome to the wonderful world of David Kim.
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He was born in Seoul, South of Korea. He grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey.
New York University; Cornell University.
Woo came to the United States in 1981, when he was ten years old. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Cornell University in 1994 and received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University in 2006. Woo currently lives in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.
( You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your ...)