Joel Kim Booster
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I didn't have that growing up.
And so there was no place for me to process it.
There was no place for me to really understand it from a 360 sort of point of view.
And so I was dealing with that.
And then I was dealing with the sexuality of it all and the church of it all.
And like, I just felt really not like, yeah, I just didn't feel like I belonged anywhere.
Yeah, I mean, it's funny.
So I went to Korea for the first time about a year and a half ago, almost two years ago.
My husband was there for work and we were like, let's just stay in Seoul and then we can go to Jeju, which is the island where I was born.
and i'd known by that point that i was going to propose and i thought i'll do it in korea we went to jeju i got a what was supposed to be a private what was advertised as a private yacht right around the island and then we're getting on this boat where i knew i was about to propose and jessica our tour guide i see like 10 other people get on the boat and i was like i thought this was private and she was like it is private it's just like 10 other people
And I was like, OK, culturally, I think we have a very different understanding of that word.
And then like we're on this ship.
There's all these like old Koreans fishing around us.
I get down on one knee.
The ring is boxes upside down.
I almost dropped the ring into the ocean.
My heart will go on is randomly playing in the background, which is like a weird thing to be hearing on a ship.
And Jessica is taking video of this, which is very sweet of her.
He says yes.
And then at the end of our engagement video, you can just hear Jessica go.