 After less than a year, Kuo returned to Taiwan to bring Simmone Kuo to San Francisco.While he was in Taiwan, his students in San Francisco located an empty storefront at 11 Brenham Place, an alley which faced Portsmouth Square Park, which was unfortunately adjacent to a funeral parlor.The empty storefront was available due to the superstitions of the local residents who did not want to inhabit a place next to a mortuary.