Re-generation | Marc Sung | TEDxLingnanUniversity

One man's search for his ancestral roots and live a Green lifestyle in the hard-to-find Hong Kong valley.

Mark returned to HK in 2007 to renovate his ancestral home in Kuk Po. The village had been uninhabited for more than 15 years, and many buildings are dilapidated.

Mark is helped with a background in biology(degree from Glasgow University) and some knowledge of Permaculture. He has established a lifestyle (with a lot of elbow
grease and sweat) that's most unusual for Hong Kong.

He considers the motto : “Think Global, Act local” - is also a guide that he lives by. He belongs to the Hakka minority group in the New Territories. But, like many from the New Territories, he emigrated in 1968 to Glasgow, Scotland.

He has lived and worked in Asia, USA and the UK, as a photographer and television producer. At present, he produces short films, using the valley as a setting.


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