Dr. Ben Kim's blog

With the intent of doing what we can to make the world a brighter place for one person at a time, we offer scholarships and bursaries for disadvantaged youth and young adults in Korea who need financial support to pursue self-sufficiency. Read more

As a young child of immigrant parents in Canada, I didn't speak much English when I began kindergarten. I was the only East Asian child in my class, and my Mom tells me that I had terrible separation anxiety over the first few weeks of school. Read more

When our Mom graduated from a Seoul area high school in 1963, her family didn't have the money to send her to university. Thankfully, she had a friend whose father hired our Mom to do secretarial work for a local hospital. She saved what she could from that job and ultimately put herself through a 2-year college program to earn her diploma. Read more

In the months after my mother-in-law passed away in 2015, my wife developed a strong desire to adopt a dog. Her search led to Wilbur, a 1-year old French Bulldog whose owner was preparing to move to the States and couldn't take Wilbur along. Read more

While traveling by subway one afternoon in Tokyo, a young student caught my eye. He couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years old, and was wearing a school uniform with matching cap and shoes. A large backpack covered most of his tiny back, and a separate book bag draped his front side. After sitting across from me, another boy wearing almost the exact same uniform and gear appeared and sat next to him. Read more

Much of society teaches that our value is tied to tangible things such as our physical looks, what school we went to, how much money we make, the home we live in, and our mode of transportation. Read more

This is a look at how to use a neck massager to promote a healthy neck. The neck massager can be found here:

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