I’m gonna be honest: I could give a damn about The Last Airbender. I didn’t watch the beloved cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender and after seeing the trailer […]
Author: Sylvie Kim
Yo Gabba Gabba! in LA and Vincent Who? on DVD
Sometimes you just have to do a post geared toward the youngsters. The good folks at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles and Visual Communications […]
Ken Jeong Gets Emotional at MTV Movie Awards
I used to blame my lack of funds to pay for cable as my excuse for not watching any of the MTV Movie Awards, but with the advent of […]
DJ Soulscape and ‘More Sounds of Seoul’
Words cannot describe my giddiness at discovering DJ Soulscape and his revival of rare 70s Korean soul and funk music from the 1970s via a random haunt on BuzzFeed […]
Hooking up through Hangul
During my scouring of the Internet, I unfortunately stumbled on this darling little article from the GlobalPost about the use of language exchanges in Korea — where an English […]
Ethno L.A. Film Retrospective
From our filmmaker friend Tadashi Nakamura, The Center for EthnoCommunications at UCLA is presenting Ethno L.A. on Monday, May 10, a retrospective of EthnoCommunications films which have provided an […]
'Reign of Assassins' Teaser Trailer
I frequently read movie website Pajiba, a site whose non-Hollywood columnists like…practically none of the movies that come out in both the cineplex and the arthouse. But they happen […]
Kollaboration SF 2010 Recap
This past Saturday, I was in the audience for the first Bay Area installment of quintessential Asian American talent show Kollaboration, which has been up and running since 2000. […]
"Jersey Shore" Meets KTown?
Via 8Asians, casting has begun for a Koreatown reality series in the vein of MTV hit Jersey Shore. You’ve got your headshots ready, right? The show seeks: “…attractive Asian-Americans […]
Zainichis Rising
You can count the number of things I don’t know about Korean history and culture on many fingers and toes. Usually, I utilize my standby excuse of “But I’m […]
The Awkward SFIAAFF 2010 Diaries
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (of which KoreAm is one of many awesome media sponsors) kicked off this past Thursday, and as Hyphen’s Film Editor, I […]
Another Reason to Love H Mart
As a Bay Area resident, I hadn’t experienced the glorious wonder that is H Mart until this past year while visiting some SoCal relatives. Growing up in the Midwest, […]
Ohno and Korea Should End Their Beef
I mean, really. You guys are still at it? Back in 2002, there was a dust-up between American speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and the entire speed skating delegation […]
Coed boycotts V-Day, moves Black Day up
A female columnist for Central Michigan University’s student-run newspaper Central Michigan Life has urged her single readers to celebrate Korea’s Black Day in lieu of Valentine’s Day this year. […]
Hitchens calls North Koreans 'racist dwarves,' fails to see irony
In his recent Slate review of B.R. Myers’ book The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters, English-born writer Christopher Hitchens refers to North Korea […]
