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My parents moved here a year before I was born, my brother was 1 year old at the time.
It's a weird story really; normally the young couple wants to move to a different country but their parents want them to stay..
With my grandfather (my dad's father) it was a different story. He actually lived in North Korea before the Korean War broke out, and he escaped to the South where he met my grandmother (who also happened to be from NK).
Because he felt insecure about staying in South Korea, he moved to the United States, where he stayed for a few years before returning. When he came back, he insisted that his sons emigrate to a foreign country, because he thought the US was so great. So my parents didn't want to move out of Korea but they were kind of ... told to
That doesn't really explain how we chose Australia, but I don't really recall the story that well
Damn, I didn't know I'd be telling my life story in this thread :undecide: