Firelight Chats Ep009 | Third Culture Hoopin’ w/Jerry Ku

In this episode of Firelight Chats, Jerry Ku stops by the Spacelab to chat with Kane & Mocha about growing up as a Taiwanese Third Culture Kid. Jerry shares stories about being tricked into moving to another world, assimilating & adjusting, language learning, Singaporean accents & education, representing Singapore in the World Inline Cup Hockey Championships, ambitious hoop dreams & facing the realities of adulting, eventually living his childhood dream & working for NBA China, Covid and cat smuggling, adjusting to life back in Taiwan, and the prospects of growing a business, golfing, and becoming an international boss.

Jerry Ku was born in Taiwan, but spent a significant amount of his formative years growing up in Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; Singapore; and Shanghai, China. He is now back in Taiwan, managing a family business called Rayxin Products, located in the Neihu district of Taipei.