His maternal grandfather was a Greek engineer and is said to have participated in the Korean War.
It is said that his maternal grandparents lived in Busan after the Korean War, and his Greek mother was born and spent her childhood in Busan.
Due to that influence, he grew up eating Korean food cooked by his mother from a young age.
When her younger sister Isabel was 12, she began learning Korean because she believed that she had some identity related to Korea, perhaps due to the influence of her mother who grew up in Korea.