Posted by Step forward and answer on February 21, 2003 at 19:58:01:
We were told kim/park was a ‘very famous’ man in Asia, a true legend in his own time. If so, did he start to call himself ‘kim’ in Korea as the legends all spoke of a ‘kim,’ (when really he was ‘park’ and later became ‘kim’) or was that another story?
When kim/park was a small boy he began to prophesize around his neighborhood in KR, supposedly Seoul, but it could just as well have been somewhere in what we now call DPRK, imo. At any rate he was supposedly acknowledged as something special even as a young boy. It was said he wondered why people deteriorate with age, and why did this have to happen.
So hearing about g.m. in a nearby villa he sat outside the gates on his knees for several hours each day until finally g.m. opened the gate and demanded ‘what do you want?’ Little kim/park said ‘want to fix my knees, (as they were scraped up from kneeling on the coarse ground) what should i do?’ “Use Glue!” came the thunderous reply from g.m. as he slammed the gate shut. Allegedly this was a test of little kim/park’s determination.
Little kim/park still went everyday after school for weeks and sat by the gate to g.m.’s villa until finally, g.m. decided to teach him. Little kim/park just wanted to learn so he could help others.
Isn't that a great story?