Sang-Kyu beddy much

According to Mandy, Samuel is a straight-A student and has a large circle of friends. Told by Mandy, his back story goes like this: Samuel, whose Korean name is Sang-kyu, was whisked out of North Korea by a British missionary working in an orphanage there. Upon seeing the deplorable conditions in the orphanage, the kind missionary bundled up as many babies as he could and smuggled them out of the country in his luggage. At the border, when the guards asked the missionary why his luggage smelled so bad, he told them the washing machine at the orphanage had broken down so he was taking the dirty diapers into South Korea to have them laundered. The border guard believed his story and let him, and three concealed baby orphans, across the border.

In South Korea, baby Sang-kyu was adopted first by a wealthy, barren, Korean couple, and he spent his first few years with them. They were unhappy with baby Sang-kyu’s inability to be toilet trained, however, and gave him up for adoption again. After being shuttled from orphanage to orphanage, baby Sang-kyu grew up on the streets, surviving on leftover meat from the trash cans of restaurants and whatever other scraps he could find. Mandy believes he even sold his body at one time, though to this day he won’t talk about it.