Choi Sung-Bong's Spirit Conquers All Poem by Saiom Shriver

Choi Sung-Bong's Spirit Conquers All



Korean Choi Sung-Bong was required to answer a question about why his family line on the application for a talent contest was blank. He
replied that he was left in an orphange at age three.
Further questions elicited that he had never
been given a name and that he had left at age five after being
beaten. For ten years he sold energy drinks and other items
on the street, sleeping in stairwells and in toilets. As a teen he witnessed a singer who awakened his love of song. As he came again to watch her she gave him a name. He won second place in the talent contest. Two judges and several in the audience had tears in their eyes after he began to sing.

God of all beings, give infinite love to all.

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