YOUNG & YOONY KOH - Scammed of Life Savings

Hello,

As some of you may know, my dad Young Koh has advanced Alzheimer's disease and my mother Yoony Koh is suffering from dementia.

After reviewing their financial matters, it became apparent my parents Young and Yoony Koh were scammed out of their life saving by ruthless scammers. They got into everything. They drained all their banks accounts. They drained all their IRA accounts. They are trying to get their real estate. The extent of the scamming was/is extreme. Any funds put into their bank accounts went right out to scammers. The banks are awful and don’t take any accountability. We reported the crimes to the FBI.

My parents spent their entire lives helping other. My mother started her medical practice in the 1970s in New York. I never saw my mom as a kid because she was always at the hospital helping save thousands of lives.

My dad loved the Rotary. He spent the best years of his life helping those around the world and in his local community. He worked tirelessly to help others. Becoming a Rotary District Governor was one of the highlights of his life. Nothing made him happier than helping others.

I’m so angry that after having lived such purposeful lives, they have to suffer from evil and disgusting scammers who prey on the elderly.

Any funds will be used to help stabilize their financial collapse and provide for their long term care.

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CARMEL PINE CONE- Nov 18, 2016

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Here’s an copy of the article the Carmel Pine wrote about them:

"Surviving war and a polio epidemic leads to a lifetime of philanthropy

YOUNG KOH has spent his life building a successful business and a lifestyle of philanthropy, and he has based it all on gratitude.

Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Koh was 8 years old when war broke out in 1950. His father, a military pilot, left him and his moth- er, older sister and older brother in the care of relatives, and went to war. Since his was a military family trapped in Seoul with no chance of evacuation, Koh was too young to be of inter- est to the enemy, so he could slip outside to play marbles with other children — between the bombing runs that had become a regular part of life. One day, one of his friends did not come out to play. When Koh went to investi- gate, the child’s mother said he had the flu, and Koh should stay away. As more and more of his friends came down with that strange flu, they went into hiding.

they had no way of knowing it was polio, or that it likely came from the water they drank — wherever they could find it — to fill empty bellies. Koh will never understand how he was spared from the epidemic.

Coat collection

More than 30 years later, after Koh purchased Country Club Cleaners in Monterey, customer Bill Richards invited him to join the Monterey Peninsula Sunrise chapter of Rotary. Koh initially declined, believing he had no time for a social club. However, once Richards explained that Rotary is a service organization, Koh joined — in no small part because he learned that Rotary launched its PolioPlus program in 1985 to help eradicate global polio by vaccinating children.

Since then, said Koh, Rotary has contributed more than $1.6 billion to the program, plus countless volunteer hours to immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries.

When Koh became president of his chapter in 2001, he decided to launch a local service project that would benefit residents of his community. “I read an article about a dry cleaner in Massachusetts that very successfully collect- ed winter coats for children in need,” said Koh. “I thought, even though we don’t have snow, our climate gets cold enough to need a coat. So, I started collecting coats, new and gently used, at Country Club Cleaners.”

Koh’s coat collection continues and, to date, he has collected 18,772 coats for kids, most of which are delivered to the local Boys & Girls Clubs and to Dorothy’s Kitchen in Salinas. This year’s coat collection commences, once again, the day after Thanksgiving and runs into February.

In 2010, Koh was elected governor of the local district of Rotary, which comprises 57 clubs. “I couldn’t believe the honor. This has been my biggest Rotary career achievement,” he said. “I drove some 40,000 miles for meetings, fundraising efforts and official events that year. But Rotary is in service all over the world. That year, we traveled just north of Mexico City to do a med- ical project.”

Koh, who has continued to travel the globe in annual humanitarian service, also went to Lima, Peru where he and fellow Rotarians worked with residents to build a playground. Side by side they worked, pushing wheelbarrows and stirring cement, until they had created a place for children to play and the community to gather.

‘Bleak midwinter’

“When we were leaving,” said Koh, “a boy, maybe 12 years old, came up to our bus window and said he, too, wanted to be an engineer when he grew up. Then he handed us his Bible, written in Spanish. When we told him we shouldn’t accept it, he said, ‘This is my most valuable possession, and so you must have it.’ This is who we are helping.”

Koh earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in Korea, and his master’s degree in the same field at NYU. It had been his dream to come to the United States to live, but acquiring a visa and passport was arduous. While he waited, he sought a job.

He worked three years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Korea, earning commendations from his superiors that hastened his visa approval. Koh was 28 when he arrived at JFK Airport with his wife, high hopes, and $1,600 in his pocket.

Yoony Koh, an anesthesiologist, found work easily in New York. Koh enrolled at NYU and took classes at night, while he worked as a draftsman by day. Their son, Raymond, born in Korea and raised in New York, is now an architect living in New Jersey.

In 1974, the couple left the bleak midwinter of New York and came to Pebble Beach to visit relatives and play golf in the most beautiful winter weather they had ever seen. After driving 17 Mile Drive and watching the golfers along the shore, they vowed to return to Pebble Beach when they retired. However, when Yoony became afflicted with arthritis in her early 40s, her doctor advised her to give up her medical practice and move to a warmer climate. The couple considered Arizona, but ultimately chose Pebble Beach.

Once again, Koh found himself in a place with no ready career waiting. A friend in New Jersey suggested he get into the dry cleaning business and offered to train him. Koh purchased Carmel Cleaners with money he and his wife had saved. Six months later, he bought Country Club Cleaners on Fremont Boulevard in Monterey. Within three years, he sold the Carmel shop to focus on developing Country Club Cleaners into two outlets, adding a location at Del Monte Center.

In 2009, Koh invested $70,000 in an eco-friendly dry cleaning machine, which is said to keep 99 percent of the dry-cleaning solution from re-entering the environment. Koh has spent a lifetime figuring out better ways to do things. How to design, construct and maintain public works. How to perfect his golf swing. How to reinvent his career. And how to help eradicate childhood polio and improve the well-being of kids close to home and around the world.

“During the years of my life, I have been very grateful to the many wonderful people who have helped me create success. In order to pay back those who have helped me,” said Koh, “I do my best to pay it forward, helping other people through my business, Rotary, and my church.”