Appreciation spurs Cho’s school board run
by Garth Meyer His first task in America was to take $20, walk to McDonald’s and bring back food for his family. Byung Cho, 17, set out, rehearsing over and over what he was going to say when he got there. He had studied (British) English in school in South Korea. He entered the McDonald’s, walked to the counter and could not communicate a thing. Words, pointing, nothing worked. Crushed, he ran back empty-handed. Later, things would improve. Born and raised in Seoul, Cho arrived in Van Nuys in 1989 before his junior year of high school. The change meant going from a school that got out at 10 p.m. to one that released students at three. “I remember saying to my mom, what do I do for the next seven hours?” Cho said. He praises his entry to the U.S. “I had great friends who did not make fun of me,” he said. Cho is now a married father of three, a candidate for school board in Redondo Beach and the manager of a “complex investment” firm called Metropolitan Investments, on Catalina Avenue. The company develops and manages commercial and industrial properties. Cho has volunteered for the past 10 years on the PTA, Redondo Beach Council of PTA and the school site council. “I was perfectly…
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