by JU HONG, Fusion One year ago, several undocumented youth and I stood behind President Barack Obama and interrupted his speech on immigration at the Betty Ong Center in […]
Category: Commentary
Sponsored Post by KAC-National: Redistricting Gone Wrong
Above photo: Grace Yoo, executive director of the Korean American Coalition in Los Angeles. “Who killed Koreatown?” is a campaign to support the federal lawsuit against the wrongs perpetrated […]
Student Spotlight: Michigan State Triple Feature
This week’s KoreAm U Student Spotlight features three students in their last year of law school at Michigan State University: William Cho, Daniel DJ Kim and Harry Jung (left […]
Panel Highlights Korean-Latino Intersections on Immigration Reform
by JAMES S. KIM Ju Hong didn’t learn about his immigration status until his senior year of high school when he was applying for college. As an undocumented immigrant, Hong […]
Group Launches First-ever Korean American Service Day Nov. 8
Picture a multi-state flash mob that, instead of having participants learn fun dance steps to a song, gets people from across the country to engage in simultaneous volunteerism. That’s […]
Roy Cho Falls Short in New Jersey Congressional Bid
by EUGENE YI In the end, it wasn’t enough. Roy Cho’s energetic campaign to represent New Jersey’s 5th Congressional District came up short. Republican incumbent Scott Garrett easily defeated Cho, winning […]
Election 2014 Roundup: Korean American Wins and Losses
Above image: Young Kim (left) and Michelle Park Steel, who won their respective races. Photo via Young Kim for State Assembly. This year’s mid-term elections brought more wins than losses for […]
What Would You Change About Your Body? Adults and Children Respond Drastically Different
If you were asked to change one thing about your body, what would you say? Would you want to lose those stretch marks you picked up from pregnancy? Or maybe […]
Vote, Vote, Vote!
Polls are open across the nation. If you haven’t already done so, please get out there and make your voices heard! Don’t think your vote will make a difference? […]
Navy Corpsman Jonathan Kong Receives Silver Star
by JAMES S. KIM When former Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Jonathan Kong saw a Marine go down in open ground from a Taliban ambush, it was more than his […]
West Coast Asian Film Festival to Premiere Over 140 Films
Above photo: Scene from The Girl Princes, part of the “Remembering Queer Korea” retrospective at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. A retrospective on queer images in Korean cinema, […]
Queensborough’s Kupferberg Holocaust Center to Create Permanent Asian Comfort Women Exhibit
by JAMES S. KIM The Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Archives at Queensborough Community College in New York will house a permanent exhibit to chronicle the history of Asian comfort […]
Hello Kitty Con Debuts in Los Angeles
by MICHELLE WOO Today marks the beginning of Hello Kitty Con, the world’s first ever official convention dedicated to the famed feline (who, as revealed in the most shocking news story […]
New King Sejong Institute at University of Iowa Brings Korean Culture to Midwest
by JAMES S. KIM When King Sejong brought introduced the Korean alphabet, or Hangeul, in the 15th century, he probably didn’t think his name would be etched somewhere in the […]
Anais & Sam: A Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited After 25 Years
by JULIE HA Painting each other’s nails, sleeping in the same bed, sometimes trying deliberately to annoy the other—these are the admittedly “cheesy” things that sisters Anais and Samantha like […]
