by REERA YOO Matthew Todd Miller, one of the three American detainees currently held in North Korea, was sentenced to six years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts” […]
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OC Resident Kills Army Veteran And Disposes Her Body In A Canyon
by STEVE HAN A jury found Kwang Chol Joy guilty of one felony count of second degree murder after the 55-year-old Santa Ana man was convicted of murdering his […]
SKoreans Banned From Carrying NKorean Flag at 2014 Asian Games
by REERA YOO South Korea reminded its citizens Friday that waving North Korean flags during the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon will be strictly prohibited, according to Yonhap. North […]
South Korea’s Kim Ye-Jin Wins Miss Deaf International 2014
by REERA YOO Kim Ye-Jin, 28, was crowned as the female winner of Miss & Mister Deaf International 2014 held in London after battling 35 contestants from 25 countries. […]
In Remembrance of Sept. 11
Today, on the 13th anniversary of 9/11, KoreAm revisits articles from our October 2001 issue. Below are the stories of two casualties of the deadliest terrorist incident in U.S. […]
Family Found Dead in Queens Apartment Fire, Murder-Suicide Suspected
by REERA YOO A Queens man stabbed his wife and teen son to death before setting their apartment ablaze and slashing his own throat in a grisly murder-suicide, said […]
Peter Suh Appointed as Fort Lee’s First Korean American City Councilman
by REERA YOO Peter Suh has been appointed as the first Korean American city councilman in Fort Lee, N.J., which has the second highest Korean-American density of any municipality […]
Dr. Esther Oh Talks About Suicide
Pictured above is a yellow ribbon, an emblem for suicide awareness and prevention in America. (Photo via Evansville PTA) by DR. ESTHER OH A few weeks ago, my friend called […]
Sung-Hee Suh Heads To Department Of Justice
by STEVE HAN Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, named Sung-Hee Suh as the new deputy assistant attorney general to oversee the […]
NKorea to Hold Trial for American Detainee Matthew Miller on Sept. 14
by REERA YOO North Korea has announced that it will hold a trial on Sept. 14 for Matthew Miller, one of three American detainees currently held by the communist […]
Korea Daily’s 9th Annual Los Angeles College Fair
by JAMES S. KIM The days are growing shorter, and college students have already begun heading back to their institutions of learning and enlightenment, except for the University of […]
3 Things We Learned From Korea’s 1-0 Loss To Uruguay
South Korean national soccer team played a pair of games this past week, its first games since crashing out of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil in June […]
Nic Cha Kim Makes the Case for Why Art Matters
Above Photo: In a segment for SoCal Connected, Cha (left) meets Elmer Long, creator of The Bottle Tree Ranch, a landmark off Route 66. (Photo courtesy of KCET) by JIMMY […]
Queens Public School Accused of Segregating Asian Kindergarteners
by REERA YOO The parents of school children at a Queens, N.Y., public school with a racially diverse makeup are up in arms, demanding to know why one kindergarten […]
Kwon Rise of Ladies’ Code Dies After Car Accident
by REERA YOO A second member of the K-pop girl group Ladies’ Code died after succumbing to injuries sustained from the same car accident that claimed the life of […]
