Mohamed El Kettani was running out of time. Suffering from severe liver failure and an aggressive form of liver cancer that had invaded his portal vein, the 64-year-old Moroccan industrialist had been turned away by top medical centers in Europe. French doctors concluded that a deceased-donor transplant was no longer an option and removed him from the waiting list. Faced with a fatal prognosis, his sons refused to accept the verdict. Omar El Kettani, a 30-year-old cardiac surgeon practicing in France, teamed up with his older brother, Hicham, 33, to comb through medical literature from leading transplant institutes across the globe. Their search led to an unexpected destination: Asan Medical Center in Seoul. In May, after a 10,000-kilometer journey from Morocco, three operating rooms lit up simultaneously at the Seoul hospital. In a grueling 17-hour procedure, a surgical team harvested portions of both sons' livers and transplanted them into their father. The rare, high-stakes, dual living-donor operation gave El Kettani a second chance at life. "Father, you have to come to Korea with us,