A U.S. pastor and a Korean boy recently met again one year after the pastor donated his bone marrow last spring to help the boy recover from leukemia.

City of Hope Hospital authorities arranged the meeting between pastor David Smith and Kim Sang-yun as Kim recovered from bone marrow surgery.

The mother of Kim Sang-yun brought her son to the United States in August 1999 to locate Smith, the only man who has the bone marrow which suits Kim's, with the help of the association volunteers. She unsuccessfully tryed to find a bone marrow donator for a year and a half in South Korea and Asian countries.

Another Korean student Park Mi-kyong, attending a Canadian university, is seeking a bone marrow donator to cure her leukemia.

Park's fellow students and both the ethnic Korean and Canadian communities have successfully raised funds for the bone marrow surgery but have not yet found a bone marrow donator.