Seung hui cho biography

From the beginning, he did not talk. Not to other children, not to his family. Everyone saw this. In Seoul, South Korea, where Seung-Hui Cho spent his early childhood, his mother agonized over his sullen, brooding behavior and empty face.

“When I told his mother that he was a good boy, quiet but well-behaved, she said she would rather have him respond to her when talked to than be good and meek,” said Kim Yang-Soon, Cho’s 84-year-old great-aunt.

When his parents announced when he was 8 that they were going to America, relatives were gladdened.

Seung hui cho biography

“We thought that it would help the boy gain confidence if he moved to the United States’ open society,” an uncle said.

Yet when he and others heard from Cho’s mother, it was the same dismal story: a buried life of silence.

In church, she told them, she prayed for God to transform her son. By now, the world knows what Seung-Hui