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Early Life
Don H. Liu was born in Seoul, Korea on 1963. His father was a mid-level city bureaucrat in Seoul, and his mother was a nurse. They were family of five, Don being the eldest of three children. His mother has always dreamt to send her children to the best American universities, and after watching old western movies, she believed that Philadelphia is a place where people who wanted to educate themselves lives. The family moved to the U.S. on 1973 when Don was 10 years old, after his mother got a job in a hospital in Philadelphia. They moved to United States with only $5000, and none of them knew how to speak English. Being the first family member to learn English, he learned how to operate a business by helping his father on the series of businesses that he built up. Growing up in an environment where there were very few minorities, he always felt like an outsider, due to his ethnicity.

Education
He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and religion degree magna cum laude from Haverford College, and was awarded his Juris Doctor degree as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia University School of Law. He always wanted to change the world into a better place. At first, he was initially thinking about being a ministry and follow Martin Luther King’s movement. However, his college roommates convinced him that he enjoys sinning and ministry may not be the appropriate means by which to save the world. His second choice to save the world was becoming a civil rights lawyer, so that is why he decided to go to law school in the first place. When he graduated from law school, he had a lot of debts, so in order to pay off the debt he felt the need to get a job where financially he can make enough money to pay back his debt. He joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a large wall street law firm to make money and paid off the debt eventually, buy actually along the way, he really came to love the corporate law and that led to going in-house as a corporate lawyer.