Last month, Evan Low broke through several glass ceilings after being elected one of the youngest Asian American and openly gay mayors in the country. On Dec. 1, the […]
Category: Commentary
'Community' Disservice
The 67th annual Golden Globe Awards will air January 17th and I can’t help but notice a dearth of Asian faces or names from their nomination list. In fact, […]
Awesome photo of the day
Via Buzzfeed Cool Up fact: The appearance of the character Russell was based on Pixar animator Peter Sohn. Photo from Imprint Check out Up on DVD!
You are what you read?
I read like a binge-eater. One month I might gorge myself on four or five books then for the next three months do nothing more than thumb through my Atomic Ranch and Dwell magazines.
I also binge-read by genre, authors and topics. An entire year might be devoted to reading primarily short fiction. Another year might include only creative nonfiction works. Then there are the periods when I read primarily Asian authors.
This is one of those periods.
Anti-Asian Violence at S. Philly high school
It would be interesting to see what our current cover woman, Washington, D.C.’s no-nonsense education reformer Michelle Rhee, would have to say about the recent racially-motivated attack against Asian […]
NYT's gift guide for non-white people
Gawker has a wonderfully snarky post on the offensive gift guide that the New York Times has created for people “Of Color.” It’s not that there’s anything wrong with […]
Three questions
By Kathy Yum & Julie Ha What’s your favorite holiday dish? “Turkey with kimchi.” —Phillip Rhee “My mom’s stuffed oysters. We’d be licking the shells.” —Lee Ann Kim “Jajangmyeon.” […]
Esther Yi Named Managing Editor of The Harvard Crimson, Peter Zhu named President
Harvard student Esther Yi, a junior studying history and literature, will become the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson in January. Peter Zhu will become the newspaper’s new president. […]
Pop Quiz: This Year in KoreAm
UPDATE: Scroll to the end for the answers. Do you remember the movers, shakers and events of 2009? We’ll see about that. Give us your answers in the comments […]
Fore Score
The GolfBuddy is a full feature rangefinder that gives you the exact distance to greens, bunkers, lakes and hazards. Features GPS tracking and additional custom target capabilities that will […]
Three questions
By Kathy Yum & Julie Ha What’s your favorite holiday dish? “Turkey with kimchi.” —Phillip Rhee “My mom’s stuffed oysters. We’d be licking the shells.” —Lee Ann Kim “Jajangmyeon.” […]
The Hidden War
By Smriti Rao Photograph by Peter Ash Lee On Veterans Day, as President Obama laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, he did so with the full knowledge that […]
Say What? KoreAm's roundup of all that's been spoken, texted and tweeted.
“Mr. President, you saved the best for last.” —South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to President Barack Obama, during the latter’s visit to Seoul last month. South Korea marked the […]
Lies my (white) parents told me
Being adopted by white folks means our parents likely told us lies, not to get us to do their bidding, but to protect us from certain ugly adult truths.
Adoption Stories Untold
The NYT does an admirable job of finding adult adoptees to interview and tell their own side to the story. Unfortunately, it treats the topic of adoption like a political story – complete with myths and the underlying assumption that it is bipartisan.
