Pictured above: Imjingang Railroad Bridge, 2014. (Photo courtesy of Jeon Han/Korea.net) by ALEXANDER HYUN Special to charactermedia.com It’s been more than 60 years since Korea officially separated into two states. Politics […]
Author: Suevon Lee
Fullerton in Orange County Settles Voting Rights Lawsuit
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com The City of Fullerton in Orange County, Calif. has settled a lawsuit brought by two civil rights groups alleging that its use of at-large elections […]
Q&A with Elise Hu, NPR’s Korea/Japan Correspondent
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com If you’ve tuned into NPR in recent months, chances are you’ve noticed the number of on-air pieces out of Korea, whether about the mokbang […]
Marriage Equality Ruling Resonates Among Korean Americans
Pictured above: The White House is lit up in rainbow colors in commemoration of the Supreme Court’s ruling to legalize same-sex marriage on Friday, June 26, 2015, in Washington. […]
Family by Side, Maryland Governor Announces Cancer Diagnosis
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, whose upset victory last November ushered in a new era of Republican leadership of a Democratic stronghold while […]
Will The Real Hapa Please Stand Up?
by KIMBERLY-ROSE KA’IULANI WOLTER In his latest film, Aloha, Cameron Crowe has written one of the most prominent hapa characters in a big budget motion picture: Allison Ng. […]
David Ryu Makes History with Decisive L.A. City Council Win
by JIMMY LEE and SUEVON LEE A few minutes after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, David Ryu stood on a raised platform in the patio of a Sunset Strip restaurant, […]
Former ‘Comfort Women’ Journalist Vows to Take Stand
Pictured above: Takashi Uemura greets Grandma Lee before his talk May 8 at UCLA co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. (Photo […]
Maryland’s First Lady Pledges Support for Afflicted Businesses
Pictured above: Flanked by state and local officials, Maryland First Lady Yumi Hogan addresses a group of Korean small business owners at Gyung Hyang Garden Korean Church on May 5 […]
Keeping Watch All Night
During the recent unrest that spread across the city of Baltimore in the wake of the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, several hundred small businesses in the city were damaged, […]
‘Simply Not Good Enough’: House Rep. on Handling of Daniel Chong Aftermath
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com A day after new details surfaced regarding the exceedingly light measures taken against Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents who forgot about a University of […]
The Rundown on the Won-moon Joo Situation
by COURTNEY LEE courtney@charactermedia.com By now, you may have heard about Won-moon Joo, the New York University student who has been detained in North Korea since April 22. On Saturday, […]
It’s Ryu v. Ramsay in L.A. City Council Runoff
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com David Ryu hung on to his second-place finish in the primary race for the District 4 seat on the L.A. City Council and will […]
Elections Lawsuit Focuses on Asian American Voting Rights
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com Two prominent civil rights groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the City of Fullerton, located in Orange County, Calif., alleging that its […]
Margin of Votes Widens in Tight L.A. City Council Race
by GRACE LEE and SUEVON LEE editor@charactermedia.com | editor@charactermedia.com In a close race for the Los Angeles City Council District 4 seat, David Ryu, a community health executive running in his first […]
