Dr Peter Chung CEO Eminata Group Part 1 of 2

Dr Peter Chung http://peter-chung.com/
Eminata Group http://eminata.com/

I came to North America as a boy. I was 14 years old and my family settled in the Los Angeles area. Immediately upon my arrival, I was put into an English as Second Language class to learn to speak English. In Korea, we lived close to the US 8th Army division base, so as a child, I grew up thinking there were only two other types of people, black soldiers and white soldiers, and that they all spoke English. So you can imagine my determination to speak English, and when I settled in Los Angeles and went to school, I worked really hard to make friends with those who were black and white and who spoke this wonderful language. I would talk with my friends outside of class, and study hard in class. After a month or so, it started to dawn on me that the language I was communicating in with my friends was different than the language I was learning in class. I realized I was learning Spanish.

While I was in high school I was a bit of a rebel. I was angry that my father's low-paying job as pastor of a small Korean church in Los Angeles meant that my mother had to work long hours in a sewing factory making ties to support the family. So it was with this background that I opened a Tae Kwon Do school and taught fellow students in an effort to help make ends meet. In the 70s, Bruce Lee was becoming a hero in the martial arts, making martial arts very popular, so I approached my student council president to see if I could give a Tae Kwon Do demonstration at the school. Our school had three thousand students, and fifteen hundred showed up! From there, I recruited thirty students to start my first class. This was my 1st business!

After high school, I left home and went to study mathematics and computer science at UCLA and it is here that Christianity really entered my life. Our roommate David was a very faithful Christian. I respected him because he was a senior and a Physics major with (straight) A's. On the first day of school, he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible aloud, prayed and went to school. On the second day of school, he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible (aloud), prayed and went to school, and I got a little annoyed. We all shared one open room so I could hear everything. On the third day he turned on the light at six in the morning, read the Bible aloud, prayed and went to school. I got more annoyed so I asked him a blunt question. "David, why do you get up so early to read the Bible, pray and disturb everybody? Isn't going to church once a week enough for you?" His response to me was "Peter, I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and I communicate to God through prayer and I get His message through reading the bible. This is how I start my day." He then invited me to come to his bible study group. As a preacher's son, I thought I knew a lot about the Bible but after attending a few Bible studies with our roommate I realized how little I really knew about God. So with my faith and my degree in hand I graduated and took a number of respectable jobs.

But I knew, inside, there was more.

I started my own businesses in private education, banking, real estate and automobile safety engineering. Things grew very quickly and as they grew, I was humbled and gave thanks to God for His blessings. Before I went to work, I used to kneel down on my 2nd floor balcony looking at the ocean, mountains and sky and pray, "Lord who am I to be blessed with such magnitude? You know I don't deserve this. Help me to glorify You throughout the day. "I prayed this prayer every day.

After a while people started telling me how smart and successful I was. My response to them was, "It is not me; God is the one who is blessing me". Many people wanted to be my friend and continued to tell me how successful I was. The media wanted to do interviews and they did stories on me. As time passed by I started thinking that maybe I was not dumb after all. Maybe I was smart.

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