How does one go from a career in hospital administration to becoming an award-winning chef? Ji Hye Kim can tell you. Kim is a semifinalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation (JBF) Award for Outstanding Chef, having previously made semifinalist in 2020 for Best Chef, Great Lakes region. But being a chef wasn’t her first ambition. She emigrated from Seoul, South Korea, to the United States with her parents when she was 13. A somewhat rambunctious teenager, she left friends and the big city to become the new kid in a New Jersey suburb where she didn’t speak the language. “I was decently popular in Korea, but became an easy target to be picked on in the States,” Kim said. But that motivated her to study hard, and she ended up at the University of Michigan. She graduated, got a good job in New Jersey, and had financial stability. Then …