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Parents
Park Ki-woo (26/02/75)
Her father is born in Wando County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea on February 26, 1975. He was adopted by a Belgian-American couple. He lived his entire youth between New York and the South-East of Belgium. He was a firefighter for more than 20 years. He finally decided to moved to Belgium in late 1992. He passed away due to a brain cancer he tried to beat for a year and a half before leaving this world in 2010, at the age of 35. One of his passions, which he passed on to his six children, was boxing. He was also a singer and loved to sing for his children. He spoke French and English due to his youth and learn Korean for his wife.
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Wi So-min (28/03/76)
Her mother is born in Busan, South Korea on March 28, 1976. She has two younger brothers, one of them being the famous actor Wi Ha-Joon. They loved each other very much and she always encouraged him to pursue his dream to be an actor. Her dream was to have a big family. She moved to Belgium at the age of 16, in 1992, with her team to pursue her dream to become a Taekwondo Athlete. She was a Taekwondo teacher for 10 years. She passed away during Bora's birth on December 26, 2005 at the age of 29. Her greatest wish was to have a daughter who would be interested in taekwondo like her. After her death, her husband made her dream come true by enrolling Bora in a taekwondo class. She spoke Korean, English and French which she learned at school.
> Their meeting
They met in April 1993 in the South-East of Belgium. Her mother had an internship there and her father had just started his career as a firefighter. Their meeting was worthy of a movie. On their way to work, they bumped into each other on a street corner. Her mother's papers flew to the ground, and her father was extremely embarrassed and sorry, immediately bending down to retrieve them. She had a box in her hand and he told her not to bend down, as it was his fault.
As he rose to his feet, he finally laid eyes on her, and she on him. Love at first sight. It was as if time had stopped around them. Already late, they couldn't stay like that any longer, so he excused himself once more and ran off, leaving her speechless. The film didn't stop. That evening, just as they were about to call it a day, a fire broke out in the building where her mother was doing her internship. The fire department arrived fairly quickly, and it was for the second time that day that these two met. As he was evacuating the building, he had one last room to check. When he opened the door, they came face to face. She had a cardboard box that looked very heavy in her hands and was very red from the heat (and because she was also shy, that's where Bora's blush came from). He took the box out of her hands and took her hand at the same time. The box wasn't very heavy, so he thought she must not be feeling well. Once safely outside, he put the box down and took her hands to see if she was all right. He ran some tests on her, not even realizing that there might be other people to take care of. All he could see was her. In the end, she'd just had a bout of heat, but she was perfectly fine. He went to take care of the last few things, but their mission was a success, with no serious injuries.
