PHOTO: CS-VT-Incident 1.tif By Michelle Woo On a Tuesday morning, a day after the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, we woke to a startling image of the gunman, the […]
Category: Commentary
A Life Cut Short
By Michelle Woo On the day of her burial service, members of the Annandale High School band, the Marching Atoms, played a farewell song for their friend Mary Read. She would […]
Real American Hero
By Corina Knoll Photograph by Eric Sueyoshi He can’t bend space and time like his best friend Hiro, and even though he’s pretty much relegated to the role of sidekick, […]
My Life Is An Open Blog
By Ellyn Pak Illustration by Noah Dempewolf Their voices are distinct, each representing a facet of their disparate worlds. They exercise their writing chops online, providing glimpses of their lives through […]
Road Scholars
by Bill Stephens Driving instructor Joseph Kim’s first student of the day never drove in Korea, but needs a crash course, so to speak, for her new L.A. life. […]
Speak Now: An Outsider Views The L.A. Riots From The Inside
Over the years, KoreAm has documented the impact of the 1992 Los Angeles riots on ours and other communities, and urged an understanding of lessons learned. As we count down to […]
From The Ivories To “Entourage”
By Corina Knoll Photographs by Eric Sueyoshi Rex Lee plays “Lloyd,” assistant to Jeremy Piven’s “Ari” on “Entourage.” It’s Tuesday, just after 2 p.m. and the backdrop is Cravings, a […]
A Time For Justice
By Michelle Woo Photographs by Eric Sueyoshi Bundled in coats and scarves, they chant in unison, their fists clenched toward the sky. They are some of the last remaining comfort […]
After the Divide
By Alice K. Kim Photo Illustration by Eric Sueyoshi TOLEDO, OHIO — It has been about 16 months since Andrew Jung’s parents left the United States for Korea, and […]
Speed-Dating
By Jiae Park Photos courtesy of DUO LOS ANGELES — He was cute. So I asked him, “Do you date much?” “No.” “What kind of women do you want […]
Big, Bad Blonde
By Sean Kim Illustration by Sukho Lee How does one deal with it, the Blonde? Where lies the mystique? We often hear the familiar clinical refrain that it’s a […]
Stories from Behind the Border
By Soo Youn We are eating typical Korean-buffet fare — galbi, sushi rolls and the standard panchan side dishes — at a restaurant in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., on Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. […]
You’re Hired?
By Jiae Park Photos courtesy of NBC Recently, Korean American men have stirred it up in the reality-show spotlight. The Cho brothers, Erwin and Godwin, battled it out on […]
