Hunger, or more precisely the problem of world hunger, is at the root of the Sonic Bloom story. While serving as an army border guard in South Korea from 1961-63, Dan Carlson witnessed a Korean woman placing her baby under the wheels of an army truck. "I went over to strike the woman, to stop her, but as I looked into her eyes I realized that she was acting out of desperation, that she and her child were starving to death." From that moment on, Carlson claims, he dedicated his life to helping solve world hunger.